Top Notes 
Hyacinth
Cyclamen
Heart Notes 
Jasmine
Lilac
Base Notes 
Musk
Vanilla
Chanelle
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Caron, stick to your last...
Pois de Senteur (from my place)... I couldn't recall having smelled it before - but I'm not infallible either. In any case, I found a vintage bottle in my image archives that I must have owned around 2012, but it's no longer there. Instead, I am now obsessed with the Extrait Pois d.S. (d.c.m.) from 2021. More specifically, both the top note and the drydown.
Caron may still not have emerged from the trough it slipped into a few decades ago (I would even say Sacre was its last major success)... but the reissue of Pois (perfume concentration) gives me as much hope as the reformulation of Muguet de Bonheur took away.
A charming fellow sufferer (obsessed by perfume) sent me the new Pois, and I first circled around it. This morning, I gathered my courage and tested it.
The first seconds already set the course, goodwill and a Schweppes face spread. Beautiful hyacinth, spring-fresh, bitter green and spicy, was the first pillar that impressed me. More flowers, more powdery spice, more thoughts of L'heure bleue came to mind, but really only thoughts, no clone or twin, as Pois remains too green and too spring-floral. Sweet is not a term one could use, at most it is naturally vanilla nectar-drenched. As it develops, the flowers alternate, unfortunately the hyacinth almost completely disappears, but a slight powderiness emerges and the scent becomes softer. Green notes can still be perceived, though.
It's quite genius, isn't it?
Exactly.
On top of that, there's the long-lasting quality, which I always find very important, and which nowadays can be very expensive or hard to find.
A successful, high-quality reinterpretation of a classic!
Caron may still not have emerged from the trough it slipped into a few decades ago (I would even say Sacre was its last major success)... but the reissue of Pois (perfume concentration) gives me as much hope as the reformulation of Muguet de Bonheur took away.
A charming fellow sufferer (obsessed by perfume) sent me the new Pois, and I first circled around it. This morning, I gathered my courage and tested it.
The first seconds already set the course, goodwill and a Schweppes face spread. Beautiful hyacinth, spring-fresh, bitter green and spicy, was the first pillar that impressed me. More flowers, more powdery spice, more thoughts of L'heure bleue came to mind, but really only thoughts, no clone or twin, as Pois remains too green and too spring-floral. Sweet is not a term one could use, at most it is naturally vanilla nectar-drenched. As it develops, the flowers alternate, unfortunately the hyacinth almost completely disappears, but a slight powderiness emerges and the scent becomes softer. Green notes can still be perceived, though.
It's quite genius, isn't it?
Exactly.
On top of that, there's the long-lasting quality, which I always find very important, and which nowadays can be very expensive or hard to find.
A successful, high-quality reinterpretation of a classic!
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