04/29/2012

Sherapop
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Sherapop
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The Real Reason Why There are no Poème Flankers
Although I rarely wear it, I admire Lancôme's Poème as a creation. This unabashed floral-oriental perfume has an integrity absent from many late twentieth-century perfumes and which explains, I believe, why no flankers of Poème have ever been produced. Poème needs no tweaking at all. The world doesn't need "Poèmette," "Poème leger," "Mon Poème," "Rêve de Poème," "Poème pourpre," etc. Poème is a perfume which deserves to survive in of itself and does not need to procreate in order to justify its existence.
The opening is heavily floral, while the drydown is quite distinct and seems very oriental, in part because of the dominant floral note which somehow sneaks in to steal the show: the dark and mysterious neroli. The drydown is so spicy to my nose that I continue to believe--against all evidence--that clove must be among the basenotes, and this is perhaps why I rarely don Poème, since I have a low tolerance for clove, whether real or perceived.
My own idiosyncrasies notwithstanding, I believe that Poème is a real beauty for real lovers of real perfume. It goes perhaps without saying, then, that the edp is strong, even viscous, and should be applied lightly and not reapplied in order to avoid overwhelming the wearer and those nearby...
The opening is heavily floral, while the drydown is quite distinct and seems very oriental, in part because of the dominant floral note which somehow sneaks in to steal the show: the dark and mysterious neroli. The drydown is so spicy to my nose that I continue to believe--against all evidence--that clove must be among the basenotes, and this is perhaps why I rarely don Poème, since I have a low tolerance for clove, whether real or perceived.
My own idiosyncrasies notwithstanding, I believe that Poème is a real beauty for real lovers of real perfume. It goes perhaps without saying, then, that the edp is strong, even viscous, and should be applied lightly and not reapplied in order to avoid overwhelming the wearer and those nearby...
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