What About Pop

Xerjoff Who? Italica, Lira, even Dama Bianca, I kept hearing about how these were all yummy gourmands. Toffee, Lemon Cake, Vanilla who wouldn't want to try them. None of these compare to this fragrance, this is the gourmand I have been looking for all my life. Someone who tries this and doesn't smell popcorn needs to take a Covid test! This has an authentic Popcorn smell, but this isn't just a Popcorn fragrance, it is a serious, beautiful Gourmand! I feared this would have that synthetic butter scent that I hate, but it absolutely does not! What about POP? starts with Buttery, Salty, Authentic Fluffy Popcorn, it is a unique smell, nothing else smells like it, layered with warm, rich Caramel. Something amazing happens with this Popcorn scent, it gives a usually heavy, thick sweetness, a light fluffy feel, even a bit airy, something almost impossible with a rich, buttery gourmand. It is AMAZING and really surprised me because I am used to gourmand being very heavy. Although the recent trend of Orange Blossom, Marshmallow, Whipped Cream scents have been trying to do just that. Unfortunately, they do not have the warm, buttery scrumptiousness that this has - they have a cool, sharp sweetness, not as inviting and way more cloying! Then, as it dries down after an hour or so, it turns into a smooth, slightly Salty Vanilla Floral with a continued under current of Popcorn. This can compete with any other Vanilla fragrance at this point! It is very long lasting - I sprayed it on my wrist 20 hours ago and I can still smell that yummy combo. The juice is blended so well, the transitions are all beautiful. The fragrance does sit a bit close to the skin, although when I sprayed it and walked into the kitchen, my husband said I smelled so yummy he wanted to eat me! What more could us women want ;) I've been on a mission to find an amazing gourmand. I thought Italica would be it, some reviewers I love called it the unicorn gourmand. But to me Italica was so boring and linear and light. I could barely smell it. What about POP? has a playful title, with an artistic, amazing Cream and Gold painted egg bottle, in a matte gold base, that feels heavy and expensive, and the egg fits perfectly in the hand. With the whimsical hand painted bottles, I think people do not take this fragrance seriously or The House of Oud as a serious perfumers. They are dead wrong. You can mix beautiful art with exquisite juice and what an amazing DUO! And their travel sizes are very reasonably priced and are in matching little bottles with the same abstract design and colors, perfect for a purse spray. So there is no reason not to give them a try!! You will be answering What about POP? OH YES... it is the BEST, MOST UNIQUE GOURMAND!!

I'm surely not alone in saying that it was the bottles that caught my attention when I first came across THoO. Opulent, distinctive and utterly beautiful, they resemble artefacts that should be on display in a gallery. Between the pleasingly weighty, ornate base and the whimsically handpainted bottle that it holds in place, THoO features the most beautiful perfume bottle design of all in my opinion. Unusually for me, the juice inside is a secondary consideration. I ordered a large selection of samples in order to choose which of these beautiful bottles I should buy. What About Pop was the first one to come to hand. It is a very pleasant, interesting gourmand, much better than the generic vanillin-heavy sugarbombs that dominate the market. Pop opens with an excellent, realistic caramel-popcorn accord. I used to love this treat as a child, but was never allowed it, so it was a "forbidden fruit" of sorts. On first sniff, this scent brought this memory back (I haven't had caramel popcorn in years!). It also reminds me of the original (and by far the best of the line) Miss Dior Chérie from 2005, an intelligently composed floral-fruity that features a popcorn note. The popcorn note here remains, becoming more salty after a little while as a nice amber accord develops in the background. I don't get any hawthorn (a native tree here in Ireland, I am quite familiar with this distinctive nectar-y white floral), but there is a softly sweet, generic white floral accord in there too. As it develops, smooth, creamy vanilla emerges, made slightly lactonic by the cream note. This enhances the amber, while taking over from the opening caramel in the sweet gourmand stakes. It seamlessly transitions to a salty, resinous amber accord as it dries down, becoming slightly animalic with woody nuances thanks to the dry vetiver. It fades to a musky amber skin scent. Sillage and longevity are moderate. Beautiful throughout, featuring a top-notch amber accord, Pop is one of the best gourmands I've come across in a while. I'm not typically a gourmand fan, but this one has won me over. Masterfully composed, it is a gourmand that manages to balance saltiness and sweetness perfectly. A cosy, feminine day scent for autumn/winter, it is just the right amount of sweet. THoO is off to an excellent start for me. Impressive stuff. 4.5/5.

What an absolute dream! I wasn't going to purchase but after a few trials I just had to have it. I had always been mesmerised by THOO bottles, though I didn't think that I would come to possess one at all. I work in a department store and work on a beauty counter that overlooks the bottles, so, I would always have them in plain sight. Sometimes, I would try a few out on my break, but like I said before, I just didn't think I would ever purchase one for my own collection. Along came What About Pop! She is a true gourmand, she is buttery, she is warm and yummy with a touch of class. The first spray hits you with a salty sweet waft of freshly popped popcorn and it immediately settles into a smooth butter-kissed aroma on the skin. It is pretty linear in that it doesn't change or shift much, but the sweetness makes way into something a bit more cashmeran and slightly vanillic. An overall LOVE and I would highly recommend it for people with a wicked sweet tooth. I cannot compare it to another frag, not even Paco Robanne's Pure XS for her with the popcorn note (After all, that popcorn fades into something else entirely, whereas What About Pop! anchors the popcorn note down and puts it on full blast). No regrets at all with this purchase, I feel so happy when this fragrance is on me. It makes for a blissful fall/ winter fragrance, as well as an appropriate fragrance for cold and breezy nights. Highly recommend for intimate days out with a lover or with friends - a beso or a hug will garner many compliments. Great silage and longevity.

I adore this scent!! This will be a very short review since there’s no need for imagination or interpretation with this fragrance... the scent is linear and completely straight forward... still, magnificently crafted and decadently delicious!! Salty caramel popcorn... that’s exactly what you get in What About Pop! And that’s also exactly what Cristian Calabro intended by marrying his love for food with his love for movies... a delicious salted caramel popcorn experience!!! For as long as it lasted, which unfortunately wasn’t very long, it made me crave for the actual thing... I wanted to run to the movies and get a bucket of the stuff. Sadly, performance ain’t that good... longevity is around two hours, with intimate projection throughout... it would require constant reapplying to last the whole day. I really don’t care about the poor performance... I love this juice... the only problem is the bottle, as beautiful as it is, it’s also very small... therefore, overspraying and reapplying means that I will have to buy at least a couple more... great for their sales, but very bad for my pocket... but what can I do... I’m now addicted to the stuff. I don’t see why people say this is a feminine scent... to begin with, popcorn isn’t a note associated to any gender... and second, the caramel accord is dark enough to resemble perfumes for men, such as Emporio Armani Stronger With You Absolutely or Azzaro The Most Wanted... if anything, this perfume leans slightly manly. It’s a deliciously devilish gourmand scent that I love!!

To be honest I didn't expect all that much from this, but wow! It's definitely the best popcorn fragrance I have ever smelled. In the opening it's very realistic and really smells like freshly popped, buttery popcorn. The popcorn note stays present all through the drydown, but this is not a one-note novelty scent. There is warm vanilla and caramel to support the gourmand sweetness of the scent, which is not a big surprise, but I also get lots of milky creaminess, sexy white florals and even a hint of aromatic vetiver to round it all off. It has a slightly toasty note, but doesn't cross the line to a smokey burned smell. After the first POP has cooled down this turns from a purely fun gourmand into a really beautiful, wearable perfume. In my opinion it's quite feminine due to the florals and vanilla. While I tested it I was reminded of Lancôme Lavandes Trianon, a discontinued favorite of mine, that has a similar milkiness. They don't smell the same, obviously, because What About Pop doesn't contain lavender, there is just something in it that triggered the memory in my brain. This one has a much stronger popcorn note than designer releases like Paco Rabanne Pure XS, so it stands out from the crowd. And it's so much better than the very simple Shay & Blue Salt Caramel, which also smells like popcorn, but doesn't have much more to it. I get lovely wafts from one spray on my arm and can still smell it the next day when I spray in the evening, so the performance is just as good as the scent and the pretty bottle.