Reviews of One Man Show (1980)
by Jacques Bogart

Too much and it'll be called Everyone in the Room Show. The bergamot in this is really, really fizzy and haphazardly dances with the "80's fougere" powerhouse drydown making for a dizzying, average scent. Soapy orange.

One Man Show or the lonely man Show if you like, coz you are likely to be left alone if have this on. I tend to agree with foetidus on the standards issue. I wish i didnt have to come down hard on OMS having used it myself years ago i really thought highly of it back then, but seriously who wants to smell like a farm hand? lets match OMS for you guys if you dont already know, OMS is similar to Benetton's COLD and versace's discontiuned GREEN JEANS,i think what gives OMS away is that its harsh notes never give way to softer tolerable unforgettable notes that powerhouses are known for.

A pretend 80’s powerhouse. The bergamot / rosewood / cumin / incense in the opening tricks one into thinking there’s something great in store. The wood, spice, incense provide a bitterness that moves the fragrance into the ‘severe’ territory. Ordinarily I would like a dry, biting accord like this but this one is overdone because it doesn’t balance with anything and it’s not headed anywhere—there’s simply harshness. I can’t determine the florals in the mix—if they are there, they are overwhelmed. It stays especially dry / green / bitter on the skin without yielding up the variously claimed carnations, rose, or jasmine. The intensity is powerful at first, but it weakens. It loses projection and strength but not it’s roughness. It lasts for a reasonable length of dry down. The dry down is not bad—leather, moss, lots of wood, without much sweetness—but it is quite nondescript. In all, One Man Show is rough and substandard.

a very outdated smell which gives incredible migraines...TOO STRONG AND IN YOUR FACE!! ALMOST RANCID

"Sir, if I may, that is as aggressive and odorous a scent as I've known you to wear." So spoke my valet to me today. I replied, "Well, you've a point, for I just received a big bottle and am trying it out, and the exceedingly sharp opening note, replete with incense, is certainly assaulting my our noses." One Man Show is aptly named, for there is probably exactly ONE man who is madly in love with this scent. The very forward bergamot and incense is, unfortunately, also joined by one of the strongest soapy characteristics imaginable. It's not exactly cloying, for it basically knocks you out straight out of the bottle. Even if on first trying you actually like this, I would recommend a very spare application.

Wicozani

ARISTOCRAT SHOOTS FRAGRANCE AT LEARNED SOCIETY! Police were called last night to the Society of Perfumes in Paris following the shooting of the fragrance One Man Show by the eccentric aesthete Baron de Charlus. Eyewitnesses report that de Charlus was heard shouting: 'I refuse any longer to dignify this sinus-destroying syrup with words!' Producing a revolver, he tossed a bottle of One Man Show in the air and shot it to pieces. 'I have no regrets,' de Charlus was reported as saying later, 'I only wish I had shot it sooner!' One Man Show is believed to be in a critical condition but the House of Bogart are confident it will recover.