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The Fragrance Outlet - and Pi Neo

post #1 of 15
7/22/08 at 4:46pm
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Today I took a road trip to the Fragrance Outlet to obtain a bottle of the new Givenchy Pi Neo.

I will say that I am not disappointed by this fragrance it is very fresh woody and semi sweet which I feel is from the Infinium not which it shares from its older brother.

The scent is very long lasting and the bottle is very well done - heavy and unique. My only thing which I think could have been done better it is the box.

Any other comments on this fragrance?
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post #2 of 15
7/22/08 at 8:14pm
Woody - that sounds like something I could do. I asked about it at Perfumania over the weekend, but they did not have it in yet.

If you can post a couple of angle shots of the new bottle, it might tke the edge off my hunger just a bit!
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post #3 of 15
7/25/08 at 3:42pm
It looks like it is available at Sephora now - at least online:

http://www.sephora.com/browse/produc...ategoryId=1133
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post #4 of 15
7/25/08 at 4:01pm
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Originally Posted by petruccijc View Post

It looks like it is available at Sephora now - at least online:

http://www.sephora.com/browse/produc...ategoryId=1133

All Pi Neo is out of stock at Sephora....

I like Givenchy, so I'll give this a try, but "inspired by the Matrix"? I love the movie as much as anyone, but wasn't that, like, almost a decade ago? I'm curious as to what the real marketing story-behind-the-story is with this.
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post #5 of 15
7/25/08 at 4:05pm
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Originally Posted by bbBD View Post

All Pi Neo is out of stock at Sephora....

I like Givenchy, so I'll give this a try, but "inspired by the Matrix"? I love the movie as much as anyone, but wasn't that, like, almost a decade ago? I'm curious as to what the real marketing story-behind-the-story is with this.

Sorry, missed that part.

They usually do that just before they they get it. They put it up on their website but say it is out of stock. I guess it hasn't finished it's "exclusive" run at Fragrance Outlet yet........
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post #6 of 15
7/25/08 at 4:06pm
I noticed they've done the same thing with Dior Homme Sport, unless it actually was available (the after shave is listed as in-stock) but sold out. I'll be near a Sephora this weekend and will investigate.
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post #7 of 15
7/25/08 at 6:13pm
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Can I add the bottle at The Fragrance Outlet are not launch! Some how this company under handed I believe got their hands on a shipment.

The bottle I recieved has the production run numbers eched/rubbed out of the glass. These bottles had to be quality control rejects.
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post #8 of 15
7/25/08 at 10:03pm
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Originally Posted by scentimus View Post

Can I add the bottle at The Fragrance Outlet are not launch! Some how this company under handed I believe got their hands on a shipment.

The bottle I recieved has the production run numbers eched/rubbed out of the glass. These bottles had to be quality control rejects.

I'll bet you're right. The times are getting interesting with regard to fragrance criminality, aren't they? I was in the shower today when the question hit me - is there a market for old empty bottles of expensive juices found in the trash? Given the degree of sorting of modern trash for recycling, I wouldn't put it past the counterfeiters to divert cologne bottles at substantial markups relative to bulk recycled glass bottles. Buying them up and stuffing them with bogus juice could yield a tidy profit, even paying out a $5/bottle finder's fee.

Back OT - I love the description on sephora.com:

Pi Neo

Givenchy's new fragrance, Pi Neo, plays with the limits of time, space, and matter. Inspired by the movie The Matrix, this futuristic, adventurous men's fragrance uses notes of toscanol, myrtle, and patchouli to create the illusion of a virtual world.

Notes:
Toscanol, Myrtle, Patchouli, Mandarin, Bergamot, Myrrh, Cedar.

Style:
Innovative. Scientific. Precise.

Us geeks are thrilled. Not sure how the three mentioned notes create "virtual", but I'm always willing to give art the benefit of the doubt.
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post #9 of 15
7/26/08 at 1:05am
Play and Pi neo... 2 releases in a short time... im curious about play more than the new pi and i can imagine that both fragances could be so similar !! dont u think ?
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post #10 of 15
7/26/08 at 4:40am
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Originally Posted by omniray View Post

Play and Pi neo... 2 releases in a short time... im curious about play more than the new pi and i can imagine that both fragances could be so similar !! dont u think ?

No not really at all. Play is just a very boring citrus/marine note that I feel the market that it is geared to (16-21) will not even care for that their girlfriends/mothers purchase for them.

I received a sneek/peek sample and trust me it not even worth wasting posting space here on the forum.
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post #11 of 15
7/26/08 at 9:27pm
Just got back from my branch of The Fragrance Outlet and had a chance to sample Pi Neo.
My initial impression is disappointed. Of the notes listed only the myrtle and patchouli came through on me. I didn't catch even a hint of Myrrh.The wood in the base sure doesn't seem like cedar to me.
I didn't find much interesting about the progression of this one on my skin and so I'm not going to be rushing out to get a bottle.
I did get a look at the bottle and there was a legible number on it. I don't know it that helps explain its presence at The Fragrance Outlet before retail stores or not.
I am going to probably go give this a spray when it hits Sephora just to see if the "official " juice is different from this pre-release version.
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post #12 of 15
7/27/08 at 12:18am
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Originally Posted by Somerville Metro Man View Post

Just got back from my branch of The Fragrance Outlet and had a chance to sample Pi Neo.
My initial impression is disappointed. Of the notes listed only the myrtle and patchouli came through on me. I didn't catch even a hint of Myrrh.The wood in the base sure doesn't seem like cedar to me.
I didn't find much interesting about the progression of this one on my skin and so I'm not going to be rushing out to get a bottle.
I did get a look at the bottle and there was a legible number on it. I don't know it that helps explain its presence at The Fragrance Outlet before retail stores or not.
I am going to probably go give this a spray when it hits Sephora just to see if the "official " juice is different from this pre-release version.

Thanks for the follow-up report. Sorry that Pi Neo didn't have a second taker. I'm going to exercise some caution with this one. Sephora is really helpful with the samples - I think I'm going to wear this one before I even think about a buy. The asleep-at-the-wheel cedar note has me worried. Although there are cedar varieties that are rather un-cedar like. Still, note pyramids are generally fictions anyway, and "cedar" could simply mean that one of the synthetics is reputed to be a "cedar-something" note.
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post #13 of 15
7/27/08 at 3:20am
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Originally Posted by Somerville Metro Man View Post

Just got back from my branch of The Fragrance Outlet and had a chance to sample Pi Neo.
My initial impression is disappointed. Of the notes listed only the myrtle and patchouli came through on me. I didn't catch even a hint of Myrrh.The wood in the base sure doesn't seem like cedar to me.
I didn't find much interesting about the progression of this one on my skin and so I'm not going to be rushing out to get a bottle.
I did get a look at the bottle and there was a legible number on it. I don't know it that helps explain its presence at The Fragrance Outlet before retail stores or not.
I am going to probably go give this a spray when it hits Sephora just to see if the "official " juice is different from this pre-release version.

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Originally Posted by Redneck Perfumisto View Post

Thanks for the follow-up report. Sorry that Pi Neo didn't have a second taker. I'm going to exercise some caution with this one. Sephora is really helpful with the samples - I think I'm going to wear this one before I even think about a buy. The asleep-at-the-wheel cedar note has me worried. Although there are cedar varieties that are rather un-cedar like. Still, note pyramids are generally fictions anyway, and "cedar" could simply mean that one of the synthetics is reputed to be a "cedar-something" note.

When I sampled this several weekends ago at the Fragrance Outlet, my thoughts were "it's just another boring, generic fragrance". It's not something I personally would consider bottle worthy. I didn't get any cedar from it either.
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post #14 of 15
7/27/08 at 3:43am
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Originally Posted by Redneck Perfumisto View Post

I'll bet you're right. The times are getting interesting with regard to fragrance criminality, aren't they? I was in the shower today when the question hit me - is there a market for old empty bottles of expensive juices found in the trash? Given the degree of sorting of modern trash for recycling, I wouldn't put it past the counterfeiters to divert cologne bottles at substantial markups relative to bulk recycled glass bottles. Buying them up and stuffing them with bogus juice could yield a tidy profit, even paying out a $5/bottle finder's fee.

Some months ago I read online about a guy here in Bulgaria who was making 200 dollars a day by doing just the same thing you described. He had a couple of homeless tramps seeking for fragrance bottles in the trash containers paying them 1 lev a bottle( approximately 0,8$). He poured alcohol, some essences and a couple of drops from the real fragrances in the bottles, and had a bunch of other guys(not the tramps), walking around the fragrance shops, approaching women( they are easier to deceive) who are about to enter the stores and telling them they are selling the same fragrances at much lower prices. So this guy, using this techniques, had made a little fortune before the police finally arrested him.
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post #15 of 15
7/27/08 at 4:12am
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Originally Posted by mr.valchev View Post

Some months ago I read online about a guy here in Bulgaria who was making 200 dollars a day by doing just the same thing you described. He had a couple of homeless tramps seeking for fragrance bottles in the trash containers paying them 1 lev a bottle( approximately 0,8$). He poured alcohol, some essences and a couple of drops from the real fragrances in the bottles, and had a bunch of other guys(not the tramps), walking around the fragrance shops, approaching women( they are easier to deceive) who are about to enter the stores and telling them they are selling the same fragrances at much lower prices. So this guy, using this techniques, had made a little fortune before the police finally arrested him.

OMG! I had half-hoped that I was wrong - that my paranoia was getting the best of me. I find the thief's marketing technique to be extremely savvy, by targeting near a legitimate sales point. It also shows an important lesson about life in general. The criminal's "in" is almost always the same sort of thing - the desire of one of the victims to get something for nothing, or (at least) something for less than they should pay.

I will respectfully disagree with the idea that women are any easier to deceive than men. When I was scammed by a short-change artist in Italy, it was my wife who called the lady on it. The missing large bill was instantly produced and returned. The male of the species (moi) would have walked away in a mixture of self-doubt and embarrassment, while the little lady wasn't about to put up with any crap! But I think that you may be right in the fact that when the con artist is the opposite sex from the mark, there is a bit less likelihood that the mark will tell the thief to go to hell. I think that's what's going on here.
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