Pointless Perfume Reviews: Muffins
Mar. 19th, 2025 12:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
smokingbootPoets of Berlin, this one's cute. https://vilhelmparfumerie.com/en-gb/products/poet-of-berlin?srsltid=AfmBOoqec4NPdWnqaiAQqs94hbqS5tgx7PHDlIh0RSauubpdla1Pncws
Here's the blurb:
Berlin, a city that is alive with the same kinetic, magnetic energy that attracted David Bowie for a few formative, recuperative and prolific years in the Seventies. Perpetual creative movement embodied in a bold yaddayadda...
It's muffins. It's even possible to be specific about what kind of muffins; we're talking blueberry and lemon. What has this to do with the city, or radical artistry or Bowie's Berlin trilogy? Nothing AFAIK. At first, there's some green topnote, very elegant and hard to identify. Once that wears off it takes around 20 minutes for PoB to reveal itself as a lovely gourmand that stays close to the skin and can be worn anywhere, good for work, good for meeting chums, good for being pleasant without coming on too strong. Might be wasted in real heat, might be pointless at night, or at a festival, it's not sexy or compelling, but it's a very pleasant every day perfume being sold at a non-every day price. 250,00€ for 100 ml? Regretfully, I don't think so. To get that kind of money out of me would take something special, a muffin fit for Heroes... just for one day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXgkuM2NhYI
Note to self: takes a few hours to fade but when it does, it's a pleasant enough vanilla.
Here's the blurb:
Berlin, a city that is alive with the same kinetic, magnetic energy that attracted David Bowie for a few formative, recuperative and prolific years in the Seventies. Perpetual creative movement embodied in a bold yaddayadda...
It's muffins. It's even possible to be specific about what kind of muffins; we're talking blueberry and lemon. What has this to do with the city, or radical artistry or Bowie's Berlin trilogy? Nothing AFAIK. At first, there's some green topnote, very elegant and hard to identify. Once that wears off it takes around 20 minutes for PoB to reveal itself as a lovely gourmand that stays close to the skin and can be worn anywhere, good for work, good for meeting chums, good for being pleasant without coming on too strong. Might be wasted in real heat, might be pointless at night, or at a festival, it's not sexy or compelling, but it's a very pleasant every day perfume being sold at a non-every day price. 250,00€ for 100 ml? Regretfully, I don't think so. To get that kind of money out of me would take something special, a muffin fit for Heroes... just for one day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXgkuM2NhYI
Note to self: takes a few hours to fade but when it does, it's a pleasant enough vanilla.
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