cmewiththemhandz@guerlinaughty

Review

Sexy is loving one foreign to you with eroticism

Poison by DiorDiorPoison4.1161 ratings
5/5
Longevity5/5
5 / 5
Projection5/5
5 / 5
Sillage5/5
5 / 5
Value5/5
5 / 5
Bottle5/5
5 / 5
  • After several wears
  • Tested at home

Poison being banned in French cafes and public spaces speaks to its infamous cloud of deep dark purple— the bottle is appropriate but the name is not! Nor is the juice, a seductive fragrance that, at this point in time, is better as a masculine Floriental.

Boucheron EDP is the dialectical opposite to Poison EDT, as it is still gummy but bright, joyful, and warm. Poison is as well a gummy floriental, yet cold, hateful, and broody. It remains erotic, sensual, and domineering.

This is in no way poisonous— perhaps venomous to some, but not to me. We are a match made in heaven

Abstractly, this is sexy. As a greysexual, dominant-sadist, this is exactly what sexy means to me. Jhumpa Lahiri’s short story on that word says that, “sexy means you’re in love with someone you don’t know”, and I am in love with Edouard Fléchier for making this masterwork.

Calling it an “EDT” is like calling Angel “demure.”

I don’t chase the “super vintage”, 23+ years old is sufficient because it all smells like Poison— if it is softer with Mysore sandalwood I don’t want it— the devil I know is ‘98-‘03. My collection all comes in the original bottle design, not the nasty apple bullshit. That they revamped after 2003 reformulations.

Esníffy of sex bottled:

Top: rich bright stone-fruit notes spiced like mulled wine, laden with a bright, decadent tuberose

Heart: honeyed white florals (dominant tuberose) and fruits, a plum accord defines this portion of the fragrance but there isn’t a nasty prunol note that sticks out like in Diorama

Base: growling sandalwood and HUGE musks while the plum juice drips down your now svelt body, ready to intoxicate your lover…

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  1. _Aiko_@aikojewel

    Love reading your reviews; you're a perfume historian with such a developed nose (and a descriptive writing tone), so I ALWAYS learn something reading 'em🌈🥳thank youuuuuu!

    1. cmewiththemhandz@guerlinaughty

      Aw thank you so much Aiko! I really appreciate it— massively beautiful staging for my video today!

  2. MoMarie@momarie

    I love your reviews! Do you have any book recs for “modern” history of perfumerie?

    1. cmewiththemhandz@guerlinaughty

      Thank you! Sadly no! I have my knowledge from bits and pieces of stuff from my training with different houses across my retail cwreeer and just read a BUNCH of basenotes, Luca Turin, and blogs. I guess I would recommend Perfume the Guide A-Z! You will learn about EVERY classic!

    2. MoMarie@momarie

      Replying to @guerlinaughty

      I have Perfumes: The A-Z Guide on order already, and another by Luca Turin, so glad I’m not totally off base in trying to learn more!

    3. cmewiththemhandz@guerlinaughty

      Replying to @momarie

      I would watch his lecture from the university of Alaska on YouTube on his theory of olfaction!

  3. Curlyhen@curlyhen

    Love your review. I find it so interesting how our own exposures and life experiences impact on our individual interpretation of scents, what we like and dislike, what is sexy and what is a turn off. My aunt wore this. She was a 5st female Ozzy Osbourne, with her alcohol and cigarette dependency, ataxic Wernicke-Korsakoff shuffle, long unwashed dyed black her and cockney accent. So I associate this scent with sadness and loneliness.

    1. cmewiththemhandz@guerlinaughty

      Wow that’s a stark contrast. This represented my gender identity in high school when I couldn’t be out as anything. Now as a greysexual he/they genderfluid dingus it all makes sense why I did what I did!

    2. Curlyhen@curlyhen

      Replying to @guerlinaughty

      Okay.. you’ve convinced me to revisit this! 💗

    3. cmewiththemhandz@guerlinaughty

      Replying to @curlyhen

      Hooray! Hopefully you can wear it on a nice day to rewire the memories. I have some cursed moments with Joy so I try to wear it only when I am happy at home and it works :)

  4. DGS@leatherfriction

    My brain every time I hear “poison”: The poison. The poison for Kuzco, the poison chosen especially to kill Kuzco, Kuzco's poison.

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    1. cmewiththemhandz@guerlinaughty

      LOL

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  5. Tea Leaf@tealeaves

    You are the best professor of perfume we have, my nose wants to be you when it grows up 💜

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    1. cmewiththemhandz@guerlinaughty

      Oh my god awww thank you!!!!! 🥺🥺🥺

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