Reviews of Punjab (1979)
by Roberto Capucci

Finally got to try this from a 5ml official mini purchased off ebay...and guess what? It was bad. The juice had turned and it smelled EXACTLY like a bad bottle of Monsieur Leonard I was unfortunate enough to have also purchased earlier in the year from parfumflacons. Both of the aforementioned smelled like a scandinavian pygmy had urinated into a stainless steel ashtray that was chock full of stale butts and toenail clippings.

I refuse to give this a bad rating and have to settle for a neutral.(mad). Maybe one day I'll actually get to try a viable version of the fabled Punjab; but until then, I am the proud owner of 4.9ml of the most horrendous juice this side of the continental divide.

I was lucky enough to come across a bottle of this at an estate sale. What a great fragrance! I have not ever come across anything like it before, nor do I think I will, unless I make it myself. This smells divine, absolutely divine. It is very, very heavy, yet is so remarkable and not a typical 70's/80's scent and has not lost it's truly unique character to this day. I can only imagine what people thought when this came out - it must have been very out there - which would explain why it's gone. Too bad. A shame that it has been discontinued for so long and never brought back.

:-(

I feel very privileged to have a bottle of it. It is only worn on very special occasions.

The Baron de Charlus once told me: 'It was, surprisingly, on a grey afternoon in a rainy English town that I first encountered that epitome of oriental exotica, Punjab by Capucci. A grizzled old ex-soldier with one eye thrust it into my hands and demanded: "Smell her, matey, and re-port your im-preshuns! I served in the old Indian Empire and I knows the jewels from the jumbles, I knows the devas from the dregs, I knows the kings from the cruds! She's mighty fine, ain't she?"
Applying said fragrance to both wrists, I reported my impressions as instructed. "My dear fellow," I replied, "wherever turbans and moustaches meet incense and dust under a scorching heat, wherever ferocious warriors embrace dark-eyed maidens, wherever love, loyalty, treachery and hate reach bacwards into the history of a proud and mystical continent, wherever in the forensic glare of noonday or the seductive velvet of night come whispers of the ancient epics of a superlative race - so, too, shall Punjab be there! Atten-shun!"'

This was a wonderful fragrance...I was given a bottle as a gift when it first came out. Unfortunately, it was taken off the market and I've not been able to locate any since.
I'd like to locate a source...or find someone who has some...