Pour une Femme and Autumn is Coming

We all like what we like and I like Caron. Just as one cryptic crossword compiler seems to sing from the same hymn sheet so one perfume house can fit like a glove.

I have Parfum Sacre, Nuit de Noel, Narcisse Noir, En Avion. I have sampled Can Can, Pour une Femme, Tabac Blond, L'Anarchiste. I would like to try all of the perfumes attributed to Ernest Daltroff

I like them all so when I saw the opportunity to pick up Pour une Femme for a song (and a little bit of a dance) I decided to retest with the idea that I would forego my basket of niche samples and go for a 50 ml bottle before the chance to snap up a bargain passed me by.

Pour une Femme gives the skin a fragrance of about the same strength that a highly fragranced soap or a beautiful bubble bath leaves. It melds with the skin with low projection and trail; lasts around three hours tops on my skin.

A short lived sherbet orange top, a benzoin sweet incense rose middle for around an hour, gentle animal musks and light sandalwood in the dry down lasting a couple more. Briefly it smells of ambergris and an hour into the dry down it is a little dry, barely reminding of mosses and dry grass.

Really pretty, suitable for day or night, cool winter or baking summer; could be a staple when one just wants to smell like ones bothered with ones toilet. This is a very soft personal space scent that keeps itself to itself.

In the end i decided against picking up 50ml for £27.25 because the fragrance, although lovely, is too lacking in strength and complexity for my taste; it is lost in my environment which is city living with heavy traffic, food emporiums, and people, people drowning (if they did but know it) in the smell of washing powders and soft rinse.

Regretfully my neighbour uses a lot of orange type scented laundry products and so:

Pour une Femme
But not for me
It smells like my neighbour's
Laun-der-y

With a definite crisp in the air when I went out into my garden today I think I have seen the last of this lovely Rosa Mundi, a Gallica rose perported to have been cultivated since the 1500s.

Rosamund, Rosamund,
Sweet Fragrant Bloom
Summer's near over
Time to make room
For apples and cinnamon,
Nutmeg and soon
Soft winter woolies
and Soir de Lune

Eau de Parfum manufactured around 2012.