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Pour Lui Annayake 2000 Eau de Toilette

5.8 / 10 111 Ratings

A perfume by Annayake for men, released in 2000. The scent is woody-fresh. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Woody

Fresh

Synthetic

Spicy

Sweet

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Chinese black tea

Asian mandarin orange

Apple blossom

Bergamot

Heart Notes

Bamboo

Lotus

Cotton flower

Base Notes

Oakmoss

Patchouli

Sandalwood

Teakwood

Perfumer

Christophe Raynaud

Ratings

Scent

5.8111 Ratings

Longevity

6.373 Ratings

Sillage

6.163 Ratings

Bottle

6.877 Ratings

Value for money

6.425 Ratings

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Reviews

13 in-depth fragrance descriptions

12/28/2021

10Scent 8Longevity 7Sillage

FantOmaSS
35 Reviews

FantOmaSS

3

A real breath of fresh air !!

There are these scents that you don't notice, these little hidden gems to discover and which one gets drunk afterwards while having a soothing side.
This Annayake Pour Lui (For Him) is one of them.
Not necessarily very well known, it is a remarkably sweet fragrance, far from the current frags.
We find cotton flower, green tea, lotus, bamboo, as well as a touch of tangerine for the citrus side.
I find it uniquely original, which makes it a really interesting scent.
Rather generic, but with a very warm atmosphere.
Soft, fresh, Japanese, mysterious, imbued with a Zen philosophy, it is in my opinion much better than many Kenzo (except the last one of which you will be able to read my review if you haven't already done so), as well as many by Miyake...
Good sillage and longevity.
Remember that this little wonder was launched in 2000 but which for me is still relevant today, and still available in some perfumeries.
So if like me, the current heavy frags strip your nose, refresh them with this very gentle scent.
You would have to be really difficult not to love him.
And the bottle is very original.
Very sober and elegant, all in a very simple way.
A real breath of fresh air that is very, very underestimated.
Zen...
My rating: 9/10

06/19/2020

7Scent 7Longevity 7Sillage

Smellavision
205 Reviews

Smellavision

2

Springtime tea...

Very interesting springtime scent. To me personally, it's so typically japanese with the tea, bamboo and lotus, but the mandarin also helps freshing things up.

Fresh, that's exactly the word that describes this best. Calmingly fresh with a woody drydown.

A very typical japanese scent, but in my personal opinion it's much better than most similar offerings from Kenzo as well as Miyake.

Recommendable!

12/06/2018

2Scent 5Longevity 4Sillage

ElysaShades
148 Reviews

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ElysaShades

Helpful Review 7

"That doesn't suit you."

... said the Douglas saleswoman as I sprayed the fragrance from this borderline genius-stylish bottle. I appreciate it when salespeople are honest and not just trying to sell at any cost. Especially since the lady was unfortunately absolutely right. I'm not really a packaging fetishist, but I find the bottle so chic that I genuinely regret that the content is not for me.

In the opening, I smell bergamot with something vaguely musty-spicy-fresh. Black tea leaf with apple freshness? That doesn't fit together at all and reminds me of a spoiled fragrance. I tested Pour Lui twice, once it was indeed spoiled. The second time it wasn't, but the top note is simply horrendously disharmonious.

In the heart note, it gets better. The delicate floral notes pleasantly round off the rough woody notes. This creates an interesting contrast. At this stage, I actually hesitated a bit about whether I should buy it after all.

Over time, a soapy note mixes in that reminds me a bit of drugstore fragrances for men. I don't like that; I don't want to smell like men's shower gel.

In the base, this soapy impression intensifies, and the rough wood is softened to a sandalwood scent.

It doesn't smell bad, but it's not for me. It pinches and tugs like a poorly fitting piece of clothing. On a man, it could smell completely different.

The sillage is relatively strong for about an hour and then retreats to skin level. Sandalwood soap lingers on the skin for about 5-6 hours. Quite flat, unfortunately. Towards the end, it actually reminds me a bit of Bruno Banani Magic Man, where I had the same problem: essentially good, but it doesn't suit me.

It's a shame because I do like the idea behind the fragrance. Angular, rough wood and transparent, delicate, almost aquatic floral notes. I like that in principle. It's just a question of whether the composition here is unsuccessful or if the fragrance simply doesn't suit me.

02/20/2018

5Scent 5Longevity 6Sillage

Ajlen
122 Reviews

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Ajlen

Helpful Review 2

Parfum Chop Suey

Chop Suey is famously not a typical Chinese dish, but was created by Chinese people living abroad for the local taste. A hint of exoticism for the masses, or rather what the majority considered exotic. This was somewhat similar to my first association with this perfume. Annayaké Pour Lui smells just like one would imagine an Asian fragrance. At least outside of Asia.

The diffuse, nature-like fruity aromas at the beginning are probably more like escape aromas. They are quickly replaced by floral notes. At this point, it reminds me a lot of scented candles or fabric softeners of the Asian morning freshness type. This phase lasts a bit longer before some wood and (seemingly) vanilla and musk join in towards the end. Generally speaking, throughout the entire scent progression, there is nothing that would emphasize the designation pour lui. Overall, it feels rather soft and unisexy, or to stay in the same wording: pour tous.

I actually don’t find this Annayaké that bad. It is somewhat simply constructed like a room fragrance and unfortunately quite contrived. One could argue that every perfume is somehow constructed. But as noticeable as it is here, I haven't had that under my nose for a long time. I wouldn’t wear this.

02/15/2010

7Scent 7.5Longevity

Apicius
1328 Reviews

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Apicius

Helpful Review 4

Vanilla in Japanese!

Is the perfume in my sample already spoiled or does it really smell like this? This was my first thought after spraying from the approximately 2-year-old tester. There are a few citrus notes that fade away immediately. Then something green comes through with a floral component. I cannot identify the listed top notes. Everything is initially terribly scratchy and bitter.

After the initial shock, this scent - I must admit - becomes significantly better. The scratchiness subsides and a vanilla-like base note spreads, again accompanied by bright flowers. Finally, the woods join in and slowly and minimally push the vanilla towards a gasoline-like accord reminiscent of Le Male by Gaultier. Here I must concede: I have rarely perceived this accord so subtly in a perfume. Now things are getting interesting!

Vanilla and lotus blossom sound very feminine. But this certainly does not apply to this scent. Because all of this is connected with a dry woodiness that keeps the fragrance beautifully transparent. Here, Jil Sanders Man Absolute comes to mind as a comparison. I find it somewhat dishonest that neither vanilla nor tonka bean are mentioned by Douglas/Annayake in the pyramid, when it is clearly about vanilla! But vanilla hardly fits the Japan image of the Annayaké brand.

Nevertheless, I would buy the Japan image from Douglas. Because as the scent develops further, the vanilla evolves into a kind of transparent coolness. That is quite successful. A Japanese garden, mist-covered mountains, lotus flowers on a pond, the sounds of a shakuhachi flute, a teahouse where Japanese businessmen practice the ritual - these images are justified here.

Douglas is selling an image here, but not a scent. Because the described notes in Annayké pour Lui are so fine and restrained that you can hardly perceive them in an olfactorily overcrowded Douglas store. If I had not tested this scent extensively at home, but rather in passing at Douglas, I would have never discovered this fine complexity and it would have been a complete failure.

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