Yes, Please 2021

Yes, Please by Pekji
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7.5 / 10 12 Ratings
Yes, Please is a popular perfume by Pekji for women and men and was released in 2021. The scent is sweet-floral. The longevity is above-average. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Sweet
Floral
Fruity
Spicy
Gourmand

Fragrance Notes

PearPear VanillaVanilla RoseRose CognacCognac FrankincenseFrankincense GrapefruitGrapefruit IrisIris Sichuan pepperSichuan pepper

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Ratings
Scent
7.512 Ratings
Longevity
8.49 Ratings
Sillage
7.89 Ratings
Bottle
6.911 Ratings
Submitted by Profumo, last update on 12.04.2024.

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2 in-depth fragrance descriptions
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Can777

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Top Review 41  
And so he found her again...!
He was still the little prince. There was just one difference. He was now tall and quite experienced. He had been living and practising the philosophy of his father Antoine de Saint-Exupéry for a very, very long time. He saw love with his heart. And he had also felt it physically. Just once. And she was beautiful! But he had forgotten what she smelled like. It had been too long! What did she smell like again? He knew one thing. She definitely smelled of roses. And so he picked up a rose. Pure, unspecific and almost simply constructed. And then, lost in thought, he went into his laboratory...!
There he sprinkled it with fruity essences of juicy grapefruit. It was the essence of "bitterness". As juicy and bitter as pain. But the pain was not yet deep enough, the little prince thought. So he took the spiciest, darkest pepper he had and sprinkled it on the fruity rose. It was the essence of "pain". And so the vulnerability of the thorns was added. Pungent, spirited, wild and confused!
The rose, or love in this sense, was slowly taking shape. But it was not yet what he had in mind. And so he continued to refine it. He reached for the glass labeled "recklessness". It smelled of narcotic vermouth or cognac. The scent was so strong it clouded his senses. The little prince dosed it very sensitively and gently. The rose now smelled much more lively, lighter and almost weightless. Beautiful,...but not yet what he had in mind!
The "tenderness" was missing. He found it quite far back on the shelf of emotions. It was completely dusty. As if it hadn't been used for a long time. He opened the jar with reverence and caution. It was one of the strongest emotions. He put his hand over his mouth and nose to stop himself from crying. The smell was that beautiful. But the smell still hit him. And tears flowed. The "tenderness" smells of juicy pears dusted with vanilla. So soft and name-giving,...hurtfully tender!

The rose smelled perfect! But love didn't smell like that. It was too smooth and flawless. It wasn't like that. He knew it from his own painful experience! And so he looked for something in his father's laboratory that was under lock and key. It was too wild, unruly, strong and it stank. That much he knew. And it was too disturbing to be left out in the open. So he sneaked into his father Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's bedroom to steal the key to the poison cabinet in which the darkest and most disturbing essence was stored. And he found it...!

And so the little, big prince went to the poison cabinet and opened it. There, covered in iris dust, was a tiny little bottle. It was decorated with a rose-gold emblem that was barely legible under all the delicate dust. He gently and carefully freed the small bottle from it and read what was written on it. In faded red-brown ink it read...BODILITY. It was the state of deepest familiarity and intimacy...

So he took the bottle in his hands with the utmost care and added just half a drop of human musk to his creation of love. Immediately it shriveled and wilted. And it stank wretchedly. But also fascinating! But his experiment, or rather the rose of love, recovered quickly. Very quickly! Everything lifeless was instantly flooded with light. An infinitely deep and wonderful glow flowed through every leaf and every bud, as well as the flower itself. It was like the spark of life. And it began to smell. So infinitely disturbingly beautiful. So aggressive and yet so passive. So tender and yet so deeply hurtful. Yes... that's how love and the rose smelled to him. It was perfect for him. That's how he had felt her once. So irritating, human, vulnerable and floral...!
Then he gently took the still very fragile, weakened and unique rose in his hands and placed it on the windowsill in his bedroom. May it grow. He opened the window so that the light of the stars shone on it and its fragrance touched the lonely stars. And he nourished her with a tear every evening before he fell asleep. So that they would not dry up. And so the little, big prince fell asleep peacefully every evening. Wrapped in a deep, happy, human memory of love itself...!

END

My dear friends, members and readers!
This was my last review and story for this year. And as always, it was a pleasure. I hope you enjoyed it and liked it! For more background, I recommend Profumo's great commentary. Like the little prince, I have been seeing with my heart for a long time. At least that's my opinion! It's not always just about perfumes. I've been given a lot of insight into other people's hearts this year. And I have also warmed the door to mine. And I have done so with honesty! You find yourself here in a wonderful and magical way. Always new. Always unique and beautiful! Here at Parfumo, it often smells like it does now in the bedroom of the little, big prince. It smells of LOVE...you just have to follow the scent. Each of us can send and also receive. But you should also open your window so that it reaches other stars or reaches you. Let's open the windows together so that LOVE can float to the hidden and lonely stars that still live in darkness! I wish everyone here a wonderful Christmas. Embrace what you love. Appreciate what you have and hold it very, very tightly. Love, friendship, partnership. And keep your humanity and charity safe! Everything is so infinitely valuable, fragile, delicate and precious...!
I love you...Merry, happy, contemplative and wonderful Christmas! Can (the already very old,little,big prince)

And here is the "hope". But you have to hear and see it. I know them only too well! Hear them loudly...!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_U9WURgOtf0
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Profumo

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Top Review 21  
Anyway, it must be
There are always these phases when I am downright tired of fragrances, my interest in the countless new releases wanes and my attention can fortunately turn to other things that are at least as important to me.
But sooner or later, sooner or later, a representative of his guild will reliably come around the corner to pull me out of my olfactory lethargy and remind me how exciting and thrilling the world of fragrance can be, and how nice it is to still be able to "burn" for it.

But it doesn't necessarily have to be a new discovery: I can also be ignited by a fragrance that I have already sniffed out a long time ago, which I may not have noticed at first, or another of its peers stole the show, or I simply wasn't ready for it yet and had to take a detour via fragrance X and fragrance Y, or it was simply chance that brought the sample back into my hands - sometimes it takes a few encounters for it to click!
Two years ago, I found "Yes, Please" quite nice, but apparently not nice enough for it to 'pick me up'.
At the time, I received a whole sample set of Ömer's new fragrance series, which I found quite challenging on the whole, but not uninteresting. As well as: Ömer İpekçi can't make uninteresting fragrances, at least I don't know any! But none of them really knocked me off my feet.
First of all.

The sample set moved on, but a few months later I had "Flesh" under my nose again and was thrilled, completely. A few months later again, this time it was "Yes, Please", and I thought: Wow, what a great fragrance! How could I have missed it so much before?"

I'm afraid the whole series - the perfumer calls it his "Reset Collection" - tends to be overlooked, because unlike his previous works, the new ones are certainly bulkier, more discordant, less 'catchy'.
Even if they reveal Ömer's artistic potency even more clearly than his first works, they are less Puccini and more Schönberg, in other words: less catchy, and yes, also less trivial. Not that his first works were trivial, no (Puccini is not trivial either, at least most of the time), but the one or other olfactory aria was faster and easier to decipher: rose and amber, for example, intonate the all-too-familiar oriental sound; patchouli, cistus and rooty vetiver the dark earth theme; ambergris, mastic, lavender and a chorus of herbs sing of the Mediterranean coastlines. It is all somehow familiar and locatable, but still idiosyncratic and strong enough to reveal its own signature.

But "Yes, Please", "Purpl", "Flesh" and "Blacklight"?
Well, "Blacklight" is still reasonably easy to understand: the scent is cool, oscillating between bright aldehydes and deep black, leathery smoke, it quite plausibly reflects black light turned into fragrance. And "Flesh"? Well, the musky powder, iris and ambrette: the familiar peau theme, but what on earth is the bucket of wall paint for? finally, "Purpl" with vinyl, sweat and strawberries - what the f*ck?! And now this shake of cognac, pear and grapefruit, garnished with peppery rose and surrounded by an indefinable stink that almost makes me gag.
Not "Yes, Please" - "No, Thanks"!!!

What is that?
Animalic admixtures are usually hidden between the base notes: a little fecal civet here, a hint of leathery castoreum there, a hint of dirty, horny musk perhaps. But this one doesn't smell like an animal and is more or less thrown in the door, just like that, 'in your face', patsch!
Well, I have no idea. The few comments that can be found on this fragrance tend to poke around in the fog. The Szechuan pepper? The combination of grapefruit, pear and cognac? Or a nasty musk combination after all? In any case, it's tired.
But somehow not unpleasant.
From test to test - this bizarre intro captivates me more and more - the ruffled nasal hairs actually begin to relax slowly, and after a while, I suddenly even find this disruptive note, this party crasher of an otherwise quite harmonious, rosy-fruity coexistence, attractive!
Rarely has retesting a fragrance several times taught me better. In fact, I have to say that it has only gradually taught me the true nature of this work. Which brings me back to Schönberg, who is also not immediately accessible, who you have to listen deeply to again and again, just as you shouldn't trust your first impression here, but rather smell deeply into it again and again.

Today, I no longer find this disturbing note disturbing at all, quite the opposite - I would miss it if it were suddenly no longer there. No, it has to be there, it needs it. Perhaps the fragrance would simply be too harmless without it. In any case, with it, it not only gains excitement, but also delicacy, an unexpectedly attractive appeal that would make me answer the question: more of it? immediately: yes, please!
Later, this disharmonious initial accord morphs visibly into a conciliatory, flattering multi-sound of fruity accents, held in a beautiful balance between sweet and sour, a floral presence, without any florist's stickiness or ashy-sweet indolic, a distinctly boozy impression, cloudy with fine streaks of incense, discreetly flavored with vanilla.
However, a distant echo of the initial 'stench' remains until the end, weakening but present enough to maintain the tension and appeal.

By the way, Ömer recommends:

"For your first time, I highly recommend putting on a sweet song and overspraying the fragrance. Even if you are normally a skeptical jerk."

Me, a skeptical jerk?
No, definitely not.
Therefore, yes please, more of this!
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