I wore this revered classic yesterday for the first time ever. I have dabbed myself with it previously but that was more like testing it to see what is in it that makes it so sought after.
To my untrained nose it wasn't love at first sniff.
Actually in a way i layered it with Dior homme coz that is what i was wearing since morning and had just resprayed it on my chest. Then out of nowhere i just decided i had to wear Patou pour homme. I quickly took the flacon out, unscrewed the cap, exact 3 1/2 turns, screwed on the atomiser on the bottle and hit two sprays each at the back of my hands.
Honestly it wasnt love love. The way i fell in love with
Antaeus
Van Cleef & Arpels pour homme
Terre D'hermes
It just wasnt there. If this was not so expensive i wouldn't really care for it.
But you know since its there in your mind that mate this is sought after stuff, it has to be good, that thing kind off made me sniff it again and again.
IN MY OPINION: it smelled like Gucci pour homme i think in the top notes. Please excuse me but i did smell that 'shoe polishy' note in it...Recently a basenoter did post in a thread that Patou had that shoe polish note in it and i just realized he wasn't entirely wrong. If i would sniff my shoe polish from really close i get that note...and before anybody asks me what shoe polish do i use, its 'Cherry Blossom'
I was out for a movie 'Pirates of .....3' and since i think the movie was such a dampener my sole interest was in Patou. All of a sudden on one sniff i realized i smelt of spices...it felt like i had just made an indian dinner...and i had not washed my hands after cooking....i could just smell spices.....just spices...for a moment i thought has my 'Patou' turned bad....it cant be...it cant be...
This cant be the real Patou ph drydown....all i could think of during the 2nd half of the movie was of basenotes....i have to go ...read about the patou drydown....thats what i did when i got back....was scanning for the word 'spicy' and got it in the previous threads....
Well i am not yet in a position where i can identify individual notes when i wear a perfume, so i am not good at describing them.
Can an experienced basenoter run me through the transition of Patou when it is worn until its drydown?
I want to read it and see myself going through the phase and want to try to be able to identify the notes.
Also please corroborate....is the Patou drydown just spicy and NOTHING else?
i surely need to give it several more wearings to understand it better. My first experience with this classic is obviously as a novice and i need to progress olefactorily to grasp this.
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To my untrained nose it wasn't love at first sniff.
Actually in a way i layered it with Dior homme coz that is what i was wearing since morning and had just resprayed it on my chest. Then out of nowhere i just decided i had to wear Patou pour homme. I quickly took the flacon out, unscrewed the cap, exact 3 1/2 turns, screwed on the atomiser on the bottle and hit two sprays each at the back of my hands.
Honestly it wasnt love love. The way i fell in love with
Antaeus
Van Cleef & Arpels pour homme
Terre D'hermes
It just wasnt there. If this was not so expensive i wouldn't really care for it.
But you know since its there in your mind that mate this is sought after stuff, it has to be good, that thing kind off made me sniff it again and again.
IN MY OPINION: it smelled like Gucci pour homme i think in the top notes. Please excuse me but i did smell that 'shoe polishy' note in it...Recently a basenoter did post in a thread that Patou had that shoe polish note in it and i just realized he wasn't entirely wrong. If i would sniff my shoe polish from really close i get that note...and before anybody asks me what shoe polish do i use, its 'Cherry Blossom'
I was out for a movie 'Pirates of .....3' and since i think the movie was such a dampener my sole interest was in Patou. All of a sudden on one sniff i realized i smelt of spices...it felt like i had just made an indian dinner...and i had not washed my hands after cooking....i could just smell spices.....just spices...for a moment i thought has my 'Patou' turned bad....it cant be...it cant be...
This cant be the real Patou ph drydown....all i could think of during the 2nd half of the movie was of basenotes....i have to go ...read about the patou drydown....thats what i did when i got back....was scanning for the word 'spicy' and got it in the previous threads....
Well i am not yet in a position where i can identify individual notes when i wear a perfume, so i am not good at describing them.
Can an experienced basenoter run me through the transition of Patou when it is worn until its drydown?
I want to read it and see myself going through the phase and want to try to be able to identify the notes.
Also please corroborate....is the Patou drydown just spicy and NOTHING else?
i surely need to give it several more wearings to understand it better. My first experience with this classic is obviously as a novice and i need to progress olefactorily to grasp this.
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