Pulp Byredo for women and men

I’ve loved this perfume for a long time and have had a bottle in my collection for a while but I have purposely held off from writing a review until I could bring to mind a good enough description. Finally I have it! Pulp is a massive bowl of Pantomime fruit, very showy and almost unreal, such a wonderful burst of magic. You just have to love over the top, sweet in your face fruity stuff to like or love this one. It is most definitely not girly fruity. I adore it and think it’s amazing, this will always be a firm favourite with me and it definitely gets a high position in my top 10. It's a pick me up on a grey day, or a make you smile on a down day, just a great whacking smell of ripe fruit along the lines of Carnal Flower or Fracas not that they are in any way connected through the notes but they are certainly of the same ilk., no excuses, loud, amazing, heightened tropical, over ripe hot house based perfume. I will always have a bottle of this wonderful panto syrup to hand; certain days would be much duller without it. You really only need a little bit to last you all day 10/10. (Oh no you don’t)!

What a odd smell, very sour fruit.
A totally disliked it after spraying it on the card.
Its a very unusual smell, not something I have smelled before

A very interesting fruity floral.
Not for little girls, though...

On my skin it opens with apple and fig combo, followed by sweet vanilla/chocolate. The problem I have is that I can't understand is it working on me or not. At some points I love the scent that's coming up from my wrist, but when I inhale it deeply I find that something has gone a bit wrong, I'm not feeling any rotten fruits like others suggest, but there is something wrong, like fruits that are not rotten, but already starting to go bad.
Altough it opens very sweet, the apple becomes a bit sour and gives a refreshing feel to the scent and for me - I find this to be better than just sweet fruity floral. And this is a unique gem, if the chemistry allows to wear it.
It is actually enjoyable, I still get the "wrong" feeling, but it is something different, fruits for someone who dislakes fruity florals I guess.

an overdose of fruit sweet..too much
you find sugar/chocolate also.
not for me!!
turn off every other odors

difficult to wear..except for fruiterer:-)
only for braves

I like is very very much. This is the only fragrance with real fruit smell, different than others, which are full of chemical elements like a kitchen cleaners. Pulp is a good experience, fresh, yummy, very well balanced. My first impression was overripe figs, juicy and delicious. There is also hint of citrus peels and notes of red apples. IMHO it is perfect fragrance for summer and hot spring days. Also I would say it has unique smell and the only similarities I see is Kadota by M. Storer, however Pulp is fresher and much more juicer.

Yes, I do get the rotting fruit.. for me it's something closer to overripe pineapple. But I find it strangely airy and quite pleasant. I like it... it's different.

I can see opinions are very divided over it --- associations with other smells (garbage, air fresheners..) are obviously very powerful and can veer sharply one way or the other... and that's a good thing surely... make up your own mind.

Horrid in every way. Nasty screetchy fruity shampoo and cheep airfreshener like one of those hung on car mirrors in taxis. Absolute daylight robbery for the price unless you're paying to smell awful for hours and hours and hours, even after a thorough shower.

A little goes a long way when spraying this fragrance on. It lasts a good while so 1 or 2 sprays will do. Otherwise, it would overwhelm you and your surroundings. The first time I wore this fragrance I sprayed 4 times prior to attending a dinner with friends, and it was a bit much for about an hour or so. The dry down smell kind of reminds me of Lalique Amethyst for women which I also have (and I'm a male!) but ended up giving Amethyst to my mom because I kind of get insecure about wearing fragrances meant for women and not to be shared. But I like Pulp, it's a really nice shared fragrance. I like the fresh top notes the best.

I really don't like the bergamot in this one, it's almost suffocating at first.
When the red apple and black currant get their chance to shine it's nice and subtle, like the calm before the storm. Then suddenly there's a flood of notes, floral, woody and a lot of fig. Quickly the scent turns into a forceful fruity pulp with an interesting hint of greenhouse.
Overall not bad, but in between I get those whiffs of something too sweet, my nose can't tell the notes apart anymore at this point. I don't have the compost association mentioned by others but I can see where it's coming from.
With 5+ hours it lasts at least a little longer than other Byredo fragrances I've tried.

Hmmm... A funny thing happened.

I used to like this one very much on first sniff. It seemed so conspicuous, juicy and vivacious... If you can imagine a mouth watering cocktail of fresh fruit, ripe and succulent, this was exactly it. Plus, a note of blackcurrent which is truly a masterpiece...

I got a vial of this and literally bathed myself in it. My nose must have created good associations with that smell, and I simply loved it. Until I read some of the reviews :DDD

Some people mentioned that this smelled like... garbage! On reading that, I laughed out. BUT next time I was putting this scent on, I instantly detected the rotten fruit odour!!! This new association has unfortunately prevailed the former positive impression I had of this scent. As a result, I can no longer bear the smell of Pulp. What a shame...

BTW. This makes me really scary of the way the brain works! I will think twice next time I read reviews of the scents I like...

I was surprised to find a wonderful fruity blackcurrant fig-apple tart here...luckily fresh and nothing like rotten garbage to me...thankfully:) Very nice one, until now my favorite black currant fragrance

I LOVE this fragrance, when I'm in Liberty (London) I sneakily spray it liberally, it lasts, it's like a big, fat, punch-in-the-face with the inside of a peach kernal. I adore single scent perfume and this is awesome.

I can never *quite* justify the £120 price tag though.

Ok, ill start off by saying i love, thats right, love a good fruity frag. But i feel that most of them thst i have sampled have been cheap, mass market, fruit bombs that smell synhetic to me. This baby is a fresh, mouthwatering bite! There is definitely a crisp, green note that perks my nose immediately, followed by a juicy, wet black currant/apple. After about fifteen minuites, it starts to mellow, and become smooth, soft even, and to bond well with my chemistry. At this point im intrigued, because its changing, a light, just showered, dewy skin scent, ripe, red fruit, and a touch of woodsiness that i think will develop further on the dry down. Somehow a little of that opening green apple/citrus skin note still plays hide and seek. The whole scent blends, shows up strongly, and then plays hide and seek. Im looking forward to my husbands reaction to this "hide and seek"... If i want to eat my own arm.... Hehe..

Beautiful on a winters day, i think im getting..chocolate? Fresh, juicy and somehow icy, although it is subzero out... Downside; this lovely juice starts to dissapear inside an hour. Stays very close to the skin. I could see myself burning through a bottle all too quickly.

This fragrance smells like fruit that is just beginning to turn into alcohol- alternately sweet, sour and bitter, like orange marmalade laced with liquor, or candied citrus peel- it reminds me of Couture by Juicy Couture- potency/staying power is a little on the low side, though-

Is this pulp prepared for a fancy hair conditioner? It`s what it seems. The fruity aroma doesn`t smell like a fragrance itself, more like body scented product. I get a plastic fruity note, that remindes me of the passionfruit found in angel innocent, but more intense and with a green sickening aroma. As one mentioned, a nightmare, but a nightmare with an absurd price.

To me, this is a very deep jammy plum and fig scent with a bitter astringency of persimmon. It's the bitter persimmon that makes this one interesting for me, but it's not the tart juicy fruit I was expecting.

It does smell somewhat like overripe fruit. It borders on the grotesque - like an Otto Dix portrait of a fruit bowl. It's deep purple and a little scary.

It's big, and a little goes a long way, but it's an unusual choice for winter to stave off the cold.

This one really hit me when I sniffed it in the store. It's a fruit-nuke and nothing less. People told me they smelled grapefruit, apples and dried plum. It's all there. Don't use it when you go eat in a fancy restaurant. You might get kicked out.
Love it

Okay, i didn't get rotten garbage. What I do get is nothing like the listed notes. You know that smell of green tomato leaves in hot sunlight? That's what I get. Hot green notes, like tomato leaves in the sun, with hints of unripe berries. Pulp is truly evocative of a summer garden at noon. In it's way, very nice, but also a bit strange as a scent. Must wonder where the listed notes went, though.It sounds as if it should be sweet and fruity with some spice base and instead it's green and sharp and like sitting among the vegetable plants. Odd, but kind of compelling in it's way

To some people it´s rotten melon or fruit salad turning into alcohol, but for some it´s a really unusual fruit scent.
I don´t like to smell it right out of the bottle or on paper, but on the right skin with the matching chemistry it turns into a really great, yummy fruit scent!
Try it on YOUR skin!

Oh, my god, this is awfull, rotten garbage, test before you buy:)) uuuuuuu, I don't usually write nasty reviews for something I don't like but this is just dreadful, a nightmare....

Amazing!!!!!!!!