Balenciaga Pour Homme

Il est évident que ce parfum sort complètement du modèle standard et je peux vous en donner la preuve car étant jeune enfant il y a maintenant 33 années de cela j'avais peut-être 6 ans je me souviens avoir senti un parfum de mon père j'avais le flacon dans les mains et mon nez est resté dessus puis cela m'a marqué cette odeur envoûtante a créé quelque chose d'unique dans mon cerveau mais à ce moment là je ne savais pas que c'était du Balenciaga pour homme car j'étais enfant c'était en 1990 exactement puis les années sont passées et cette odeur est resté enregistrée dans ma mémoire Olfactive souvent j'y pensais mais je n'avais ni la marque du parfum ni de précisions mais au fil du temps et a force de faire fonctionner ma mémoire je me suis souvenue plus ou moins de la forme du flacon et je me suis juré qu'un jour je retrouverai ce parfum car cet effet a été pour pour moi très impressionnant c'était comme si cette odeur était dans mon cerveau gravée à jamais puis 33 années se sont écoulées et au début de l'année 2023 j'ai décidé de retrouver ce parfum j'ai dû acheter de nombreux modèles et essayé un tas de parfum différents mais toujours rien c'était pas la bonne odeur mais je n'ai pas perdu espoir j'ai persisté encore et encore jusqu'à un jours c'était il y a quelques mois j'ai reçu un échantillon de Balenciaga pour homme de 4ml que j'ai commandé, c'était une routine pour moi de commander des parfums mais en voyant le flacon je me suis dit c'est peut-être ça que j'ai cherché pendant 33 ans car le flacon avait l'air de ressembler à ce flacon de mon père et je me suis mis un peu de jus sur le poignet j'ai senti et là un choque total c'était lui j'ai immédiatement reconnu l'odeur et l'émotion m'a envahi une émotion indescriptible une sensation que je n'arrive pas à expliquer cela a été un énorme soulagement d'avoir trouvé, vraiment c'est mon histoire je remercie Gérard Anthony le parfumeur d'avoir fait ce travail incroyable avec le Balenciaga pour homme c'est pour moi le meilleur parfum du monde de tous les temps voilà mon histoire avec ce parfum, 33 années depuis mon enfance avec l'odeur en mémoire et c'est une preuve que la mémoire Olfactive est sans doute un sens extrêmement complexe

This is truly amazing - Gerard Anthony has crafted a masterpiece...one that very few know about. I don't know if words can accurately describe the sensation of wearing Balenciaga Pour Homme, but it feels totally natural (nothing synthetic at all) and is absolutely so original. I have never smelled anything like it - ever! The feeling in my mind I got when I first spayed this was close to what happened when I applied Original Vintage Gucci Pour Homme - the masterpiece from 1976. It is that intuition that slams your brain within a few seconds of regathering your olfactory awareness. You are engulfed in something so incredible, you pause...for a while. Time stops. You don't hear anything - you close your eyes (for anything visual should be images your mind is creating from what you are smelling). Revelatory! To try to put it into words - Balenciaga Pour Homme is like a fine porcelain cup filled to the brim, steaming with hot spiced apple cider, a cinnamon stick swirled into it and a caramel on the plate next to it. You are sitting on an expensive, smooth, hand-made leather sofa with a mixed bouquet of fresh cut flowers and greens beautifully arranged in an expensive vase on the table in front of you. From the other room, there is burning incense - but it doesn't overwhelm...it just adds a touch of ethereal beauty. No single note in this is overly-dominant...that is the eloquent harmony. The room has an expensive persian rug and hardwood floors - everything plays a part in the composition here. I was fully taken away by this to another place. My rating - 10/10 - for scent, originality and quality. Excellent sillage and longevity as well. A masterpiece that does not have a time or can it ever be dated. It happened to be created in 1990, but it is as relevant and cutting-edge today as it was then. Is Salvador Dali's work dated in any way? No, it will leave you in awe each and every time you spend time trying to comprehend it. This is art in a bottle and it should be considered as such. To be adorned, not worn.

Real-time first impressions: yeah, this is a win. It's what I wanted Arquiste's El to be. I am also finding a similarity to Iron Duke, but this is more refined. I don't find it all that similar to Kouros or Lapidus Pour Homme to be honest except that it is clearly of the same genre as those two. Actually as the minutes pass the honey is coming to the fore and I am starting to get the Lapidus resemblance. On the surface, the bouquet of herbs and aromatics (I'm not really getting the cinnamon) combined with the honeyed musk gives the impression of clean laundry, but not in a one-dimensional way like you might think from the clean laundry association. It's complex enough to make it feel vivid and embodied. I imagine digging my nose into the fresh laundry that mingles with the lived-in human smell of home; it's a breezy summer day in the sleepy old apartment building I grew up in, and sunlight is streaming through the windows of the dimly lit living room. Now I'm feeling that I'd prefer the vanilla to be turned down, as it is starting to turn quite sweet on my skin. Aw :( But settling further into the dry down, the sweetness has subordinated itself to become part of a beautiful patchouli incense accord. We're back! Wow, it really stirs something in me emotionally. It's nostalgic, it's intensely evocative, it's the kind of scent I'd want to spray myself with on a perfect spring morning before a content and peaceful day. I associate it with happiness, but it also makes me wistful about happiness. Few fragrances have such a penetrating psychological effect on me. I could almost weep! Jesus Christ, this is beautiful. I'm actually blown away and did not expect this.

Cristóbal Balenciaga was a legend and an enigma - respected by his peers, called "the master of us all" by Christian Dior, yet so reclusive the press questioned whether he even existed. Not even his most loyal clients had ever met him in person. Balenciaga’s style and perfectionist tendencies are apparent in the fragrances that bear his name, rich, complex compositions comprising myriad ingredients. Balenciaga’s masculine fragrances - Portos, Ho Hang, Le Club (aka Ho Hang Club), Balenciaga pour Homme, Cristóbal - are all classics. BPH is a class act - from the faux malachite adorning the flacon through to its complexity - a sensory pleasure for both wearer and entourage. Like its creator, Balenciaga pour Homme is stylish and elegant. There's a lot going on: BPH is a sensory mosaic - honey, cinnamon, tobacco, leather, patchouli, sandalwood, oakmoss and (literally) hundreds of other components. Warm, spicy, mossy, musky, with the sweetness of honey and vanilla and a backbone of patchouli and woods. There is an animalic aspect that's quite noticeable and must admit I'm certain there's civet in BPH - so I'm not sure if the notes listed above are complete. In the early stages there's also an "incensey" feel - not olibanum, not Japanese incense, but something reminiscent of traditional Indian cow-dung-on-a-stick incense, possibly the patchouli-sandalwood combination. BPH brings back memories of the 1990s (when I was in my 20s). Balenciaga Pour Homme is a class act of eternal style - and the great thing about style is that it transcends the fickle pedestrian vicissitudes of fashion. Style is eternal. Seductive, sexy and very classy, BPH is still wearable today.

According to Michael Edwards in "How the West Fell in Love with Oud" this is the first fragrance in the west that used Oud. Below is the note brake down that he provided for this fragrance and I feel it is much more accurate then the one provided above from what I smell in this fragrance. Top Notes: Bergamot, Laurel, Cardamom, Cinnamon, Galbanum, Coriander, Pepper, Thyme Middle Notes: Cedarwood, Oud, Patchouli, Sandalwood, Cypress Base Notes: Oakmoss, Cistus labdanum, Musk, Vanilla, Honey The opening of this fragrance is VERY early 90s/late 80s and in your face and I am really not a fan of it... It almost smells feminine at first and there is so much just thrown at you and you can't tell what in the hell is going on... BUT... And that is a big BUT... If you can last through the first 30 minutes to an hour you are in for a treat... Lots of high quality sandalwood, oakmoss, slightly dirty patchouli and an oud note that is reminiscent of the oud I smell in my vintage bottle of M7 from 2003... It is undoubtedly very masculine but still has a powdery ambery feeling from the labdanum and vanilla... This fragrance has long been discontinued and has many high quality ingredients in it that obviously are no longer permitted in commercial perfumery... It does have a bit of a 'dated' feel but that does not make it 'old manish' in the slight... If you can acquire a bottle of this at a reasonable price do yourself a favor and pick it up as it truly is a masterpiece... --- Edit: The notes on this site now reflect the list I provided minus the oud... Could we possibly get the oud listed in the notes as well???