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Do I smell ANY of the listed notes?
What a baffling composition. I am told that twenty-three notes are present. Of course, we all know that notes are mere metaphors, but in the extremely bizarre case of BVLGARI POUR HOMME, the metaphors clash head-on with my experience.
Aldehydes? Certainly not. Bergamot, well, okay, yes, I suppose, since it is present in 33% of all perfumes. Maybe I can conceive of this as a tea scent. But the rest? They may as well say that this perfume contains unicorns and elves, since I smell them just about as well!
None of this is to say that there is anything essentially wrong with BVLGARI POUR HOMME. It's nice. It's light. It's polite. It's clean and keen. It's the perfect scent for the twenty-first-century open-cubicle office. Indeed: it smells to me rather like just pressed and starched long-sleeved cotton Oxford shirts complete with linked cuffs and button-down collars!
Aldehydes? Certainly not. Bergamot, well, okay, yes, I suppose, since it is present in 33% of all perfumes. Maybe I can conceive of this as a tea scent. But the rest? They may as well say that this perfume contains unicorns and elves, since I smell them just about as well!
None of this is to say that there is anything essentially wrong with BVLGARI POUR HOMME. It's nice. It's light. It's polite. It's clean and keen. It's the perfect scent for the twenty-first-century open-cubicle office. Indeed: it smells to me rather like just pressed and starched long-sleeved cotton Oxford shirts complete with linked cuffs and button-down collars!
4 Comments
Sonnenfee 13 years ago
A perfect description of what I like about "Pour Homme". It is a laundry - clean fragrance. :))
ExUser 13 years ago
Most reviews of pour Homme seem to share your point of view, Sherapop. The minority mention a harsh galbanum note. Maybe it's not an ISE bomb, maybe I'm just sensitive to galbanum. I know I often mention it positively and negatively in my reviews. Hmm
Sherapop 13 years ago
How interesting. No nothing even approaching my concept of classic galbanum is anywhere to be sniffed in this creation! Someone said that it's another iso-E-super bomb, so maybe it's wiping out all of the notes before my nose????
ExUser 13 years ago
I wish I could find pour Homme nice and polite the way you and Missk speak of it. I'd probably love it. But I just can't get past the galbanum in the top note. Do you smell it as I do, being rather harsh and vegetal? Or is this just my hang up?