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I wore Caron Pour Un Homme today for the first time in over 10 years. I bought a 3.3.oz bottle of EDT spray yesterday at Madison Avenue Cosmetics for $19.99.
I really enjoyed wearing it again. It is such a calm, great smelling, traditional gentleman's scent. It's moved to number two on my list behind my favorite fragrance, Habit Rouge, which is interesting sicne it replaced habit Rouge for me in the late 80's.
If anyone is thinking about buying it, go for it!
Any other opinions on it?

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I love this stuff. Such a refreshing and elegant mixture of vanilla and lavender. Great for warm and cool weather, but for some odd reason, its a night only scent for me.

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Lovely and dignified scent, but too weak and non-lasting for me.

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It contains cartloads of vanilla and is, therefore, very cloying to me. It is the only fragrance
I dislike.

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Quote: Originally Posted by Ballardbeau Lovely and dignified scent, but too weak and non-lasting for me. I'm very lucky - it is strong and very long lasting for me. I sprayed it on at 8:00am, and when I got home at 8:30pm it was still there.


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I love PuH, it's very cuddly and huggable. [smiley=happy.gif] [smiley=kiss.gif]

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This is one scent I thought was pretty bad when I tested it on my wrist. I was wondering what had possessed the Basenoters who had been praising it.
But some time later I bought a bottle dead cheap. I couldn't believe how much better it was in the wearing.
So do not be put off if you don't like it the first time you sample it.
Renato

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I like everything Caron does for men but PUH ...gack! [smiley=shocked.gif]
The stuff is horrible to me. I think it stems from the overload of lavender in the scent then it become the most nasious vanilla thrown in to send me hurling. I am not joking I actually get very sick around this scent.
Nope its not my kind of scent. I do give it respect for being a classic mover in the men's fragrance world. I never want to be around it though...


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I hated Pour un Homme so much when I first got my bottle. I really thought I had been pranked or something; nothing as seemingly foul as that could be a great classic fragrance. But I decided to try to wear it, and total revulsion quickly turned to complete adoration. After Kingdom, Pour un Homme is my most worn fragrance, and I will never, ever be without it. To me, it's not at all too sweet. I'm very sensitive to overly sweet fragrances, especially as vanilla usually turns to a straight sugar bomb on me. But by pairing it with such strong, astringent, bitter lavender, the polar opposite nature of both notes are enhanced and complimented. I think the vanilla and amber in Pour un Homme seem so sweet to many mainly because it stands in opposition to the strongly bitter notes of lavender and clary sage with nothing in between to temper it; the extreme contrast makes the vanilla seem much sweeter than it actually is.
What begins rather gruff and rough - Pour un Homme has a wonderfully unfinished texture to it, almost like burlap - finishes quite smooth and powdery. It's the smell of a well-groomed man, which is not the same as today's scents, which are the smell of a hygienic man. A hygienic man wants his smell to be inconspicuous, to seem somehow natural. A well-groomed man wants his scent to call attention to itself, to let itself be known. He wants people to know he is wearing scent, that he has gone to effort to choose his scent, and the sort of scent he wears has a thickness and weight not common today, exemplified by powdery notes. They share much in common with the powdery well-groomed woman scents of the time, embodied by No. 5 especially, which likely explains why men's scents largely veered away from powdery notes after the 1930s. Pour un Homme, Zizanie, and Mouchoir de Monsieur are perhaps the best examples of these well-groomed man scents, with Helmut Lang Eau de Cologne and the Dior Homme colognes being latter-day postmodern renditions of the same concept.

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Serp, I never knew that you had fallen for this scent. You see, I was right after all when I said it was great..LOL.
Barry