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I just posted on Jaipur homme. I suppose that dispersed in an atmosphere the size of Jupiter's it might smell......pleasant...but on Earth it was, for me, nauseatingly, cloyingly, powdery....got a jumbo bottle, never wore it, traded it.....god bless...:-)

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Quote: Originally Posted by Duncan I just posted on Jaipur homme. I suppose that dispersed in an atmosphere the size of Jupiter's it might smell......pleasant...but on Earth it was, for me, nauseatingly, cloyingly, powdery....got a jumbo bottle, never wore it, traded it.....god bless...:-) There is nothing worse than getting an un-tested jumbo bottle of something that doesn't work for you. I always try to get a 1 oz. of anything new. There is a 3.5 bottle of YSL Opium Pour Homme sitting in my fridge, that, like Cher, is waiting for someone to take it home.

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Ruggles, I know, I know, I know, I know......like I posted before, ya know, it's the allure of the rave review. Oh, by the way, I love OPH, so maybe we can make a deal, huh? HAH, you kill me with that Cher comment.....

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All I got from Jaipur was vanilla baby powder. Hypnotic Poison is a whole different beast. HP is very much my favorite.

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Quote: Originally Posted by Thrax All I got from Jaipur was vanilla baby powder. Hypnotic Poison is a whole different beast. HP is very much my favorite. I have a bottle of HP on it's way to me that I'm very excited about. When I sampled HP last week, it was like floating up to paradise. Vanilla and almond are ecstatic notes for me.
I do admit Jaïpur is a bit bourgeois, but for me, it is also sublime.

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I don't smell much similarity in those two: JH is warm and spicy, HP bittersweet almond overdose. Love the former, loathe the latter.

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Yeah, but they are both vanilla based fragrances and I think that the heliotrope in JpH and the bitter almond of HP are very similiar notes. I love them both.

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Quote: Originally Posted by Dante Thank you. You may have saved me some wasted money. Wow! I'd never seen that one before. And for the EdT, no less. That's unutterably obnoxious marketing!