Fragrance Reviews by Mick

By far the sexiest mens' fragrance to date. Never fails to get a compliment, 30 years after I bought my first bottle. It lasts forever, too. Who needs pheromones with PR pour homme? The fact that Rabanne -- who, although he worked for Balenciaga, has a sensibility closer to Roger Vadim's --is a better welder than designer even gives it a masculine association at the designer level.

As far as I am concerned this is the most beautiful fragrance in the world. I know other men who have the same reaction to it, and in none of the cases is it because our mothers wore it -- none of them did. I know that it is considered "old" and "heavy" as if it were a dusty old old tea gown from Callot Soeurs or a Poiret "minaret" tunic, already demode when they were hidden in some great grandmother's steamer trunk for 75 years; but for me it's timeless magic is a masterpiece like the Taj Mahal or gowns by Vionnet, Fortuny or Mme.Gres.....How would you improve them? is Marc Jacobs an improvement over Jean Patou? for some I'm sure he is. Young and light is not in and of itself a virtue in my book.