Pour Un Homme de Caron Caron for men

Caron POUR UN HOMME is a loud lavender-vanilla cologne. You have to really love lavender to wear this one. Lavender-vanilla is not one of my most beloved combinations of notes, so perhaps it's not that surprising that POUR UN HOMME is not my favorite Caron--or even my favorite made-for-men Caron.

Still, I find the lavender of this particular composition exceptionally harsh and grating upon application. There is a sharpness which I do not generally find in lavender perfumes such as Guerlain Aqua Allegoria LAVANDE VELOURS, which I sometimes use as a bedtime scent to induce sleep.

POUR UN HOMME does mellow out after a bit, but to my nose, it's always fairly strident lavender sweetened with vanilla, from start to finish.

A question: am I mistaken, or is that a man fondling a woman's breast in one of the ad photos above?!

above all Natural
simple,cozy easy to wear in most season.
confortable.
banal notes like lavender and vanilla together became good and balanced.
for many occasion.
With so many masculine scents with strong notes(hard woods,cloying leather,church incense. smoking things, synthetic things).
there no need to yell Here i can find my answer

this scent is better than many lavender-base fragrances more expansive and more contemporaneous.
give a Try or more

classic masculine?clearly unisex but i like to think that is manly.

update:i find here also some rosemary,clary sage..

Classic, modern, alluring, delicious!

I must be honest with you all: I don't feel any barbershop smell on it!

This one opens exactly like English Lavender, by Yardley of London, with a very good lavender. Five minutes later, the "musky vanilla side" appears and that's what remains on my skin.

Some people say: "if you like vanilla, you will love this one". Well, I love vanilla, but I must say: "never expect a vanilla scent by wearing Pour un Homme de Caron, because it is not like Rochas Lui, for instance, with the best vanilla I've ever smelled."

Here, you have a calm and powdery vanilla, which is neither too much sweet nor too much strong. It is elegant!!!

The only flaw, in my opinion, is that it could exhale more. But it has a very good lasting, though!

I suppose this is a no nonsence fragrance for men. Just like Sebastien Chabal( nr 8 for the French rugby team)... Oh!hang on.. whats that on the fragrance advert pictures?! Its Chabal!

Its sounds to me like a classic barbershop fragrance with Lavender,Vanilla and Musk. Like Pinaud aftershaves and fragrances.

Im not going to give this a review score as I havent tried the fragrance and I am scared of a guy that looks like a French Jesus.

Had a whiff today: Very, very vanilla. If you like vanilla, great! After about an hour, the dry down has a little bit of lavender, then some creamy musk (this part is nice, admittedly,) but overall it's exceptionally sweet. I think this is definitely a unisex composition.

Longevity and silage are very good for Un Homme. I would give this a try before purchase; it's definitely sugary for a men's fragrance and probably wouldn't work on every guy.

Supposedly, this contains sage, rosemary, cedar, a few citruses, some rose...To my nose, it opens with a verdant, rich lavender; at once clean shaven and freshly bathed - it does not give the impression of a musty floral lavender, but an aromatherapeutic, green, crisp, woody sort lavender. Not the lavender of an essential oil, but similar. I suppose the sage, rosemary, cedar, and citrus aids it in this aspect - its hard to pick those other notes out. At the top, the opening hint of the base - characteristic of classic Caron and Guerlain perfumes - provides a powdery, amber-vanilla-musk hint of what is to come, and sets the tone of this great classic as a reference cologne for the refined, simple, gentlemanly genre.

Anyone here read Rand's 'Atlas Shrugged' or 'The Fountainhead' and paid careful attention to the detail of the characters John Gault and Red, respectively? Their love of clean, efficient, simplicity and modernity, and a healthy respect for classical originality, belies a certain unexpected richness and sophistication that equates to the human personification of this fragrance. Which is why I will never be without a 200ml splash bottle of this beauty.

Like those famous Ayn Rand novel characters, its simplicity doesn't come without richness of detail; a closer inspection of this fragrance reveals a new facet for me every time, and recalls other great classics such as Guerlain's Jicky and Shalimar.

On me this smells of lavender, vanilla and juniper. To me, juniper smells like cat piss, so my arm smells like lavender and vanilla sprayed over cat piss. The lavender and vanilla cover the offending odor but do not extinguish it.
Another one for the swap list.

Pour un Homme de Caron is a linear, two dimensional accord of lavender, anise and vanilla with a heavy civet basenote. The result is somewhat powdery, a little uric, but mostly it just screams lavender and licorice.

This juice smells its age and I'm frankly surprised that people are still buying it. Even were it in line with today's aesthetics or retro in a good way, which it isn't, Pour un Homme de Caron still fails as a fragrance. It simply never blends, never becomes anything more than its few overstrong, discordant notes, which sit unhappily together like strangers on a bus.

I like that Pour un Homme de Caron is still available from a historical perspective. But I think it is best left to collectors and those few gentlemen still alive today who remember its introduction.

I've got it today. Blind buy. Reading all the reviews I taught it can be feminine as well. Must say I've expected something more vanilla. Instead vanilla it smells like fish oil on me. It opens really strong laveneder and than is coming musk and a bit of vanilla. When lavedener is gone, I smell more vanilla but still fish oil in the shadow. The outcome on my skin is awful.
Maybe I should try it some other, hotter day. I can see that most of you think that this is more spring and summer perfume. We'll see.

This is another one I tried to like over a period of years now, yet I always have come to the same conclusions. After top notes that I don't like at all (not "natural" smelling to me), the vanilla and lavender come together as a "blob" that is irritating (perhaps this is due to notes that clash). Later on, there is an animalic aspect, and then later a floral/woody one I perceive as clearly "synthetic." I wonder if higher-quality ingredients would make a difference here, or it may be that it's just too simple for me. And on top of this, I think of women's fragrances when I smell this, even though I wear a bunch of women's fragrances myself (they don't strike me as especially "feminine"). This is "old school" too, so if you don't like those kinds of fragrances I don't see a need to sample this one. By contrast, I'd much rather wear Roadster, which replaces the lavender with mint and has a few more notes that are clear. It's also more "natural" smelling to me, and not "old" (and certainly not "feminine" smelling either). Third Man is more interesting (with no "off" notes) to me, though it's also rather simple, so I suggest sampling that one before CPUH if you want to sample Caron's men's fragrances and want something in the sweet/floral area. If you have skin chemistry that really "eats up" a fragrance, perhaps this can work for you, but for me, a fragrance can't get much more cloying than this!

Elegance is an attitude.

One gentleman perfume, like Pour Monsieur de Chanel.

I love lavender and I love vanilla. I think Jicky is spectacular. Why is it that I can’t stand Pour un Homme? Every bit of the balance that I find so delicious and enticing in Jicky is out of whack in Pour un Homme. The lavender and the vanilla never come together and the other elements I can find are on the sidelines urging on the fight.

Rosemary curdles the vanilla and tonka blunts the lavender. There’s a feeling of objects flying at each other, hitting, and landing with a dull thud that unfortunately lasts for hours.

What was Daltroff's brief back in 1934? "Do us a regular lavender scent, only cloying as hell." He managed it with adding industrial lashings of vanilla and called it Pour un Homme. Pour un Homme anosmique perhaps! I'm rather partial to vanilla and guite like lavender, but this juice is just too much of both. I'd much rather go for Shalimar or even Jicky.

I read recently that this is Tom Ford's personal favorite scent. Anybody else heard that?

Such a simple scent! Lavender and vanilla, nothing more, nothing less. Of course I tried to blend it on my own, to no avail. I did find alternatives: Luky, a very popular Spanish drugstore scent during the 1970's / 1980's. Definetely not the same to PUH, but close to it, maybe a witness to PUH's huge past global success.

PUH is a classic that feels like it for it has an non-existent "wool" like accord that I imagine it can be traced in memories. I don't know if my Grandfather wore it, but it triggers reminiscences of long-gone days, maybe because I smelt it on men during my childhood, a time when PUH (as I said) was a bestseller.

It can also be called a classic in the way it evolves - originally, men did not wear scents and if they did, they looked for those that were fleeting, non invasive and with poor longevity, something quite logical since women's scents were longevity and sillage wise. So, PUH is such a case, a survivor of times when the concept around men's grooming was quite different than the ones in use today.

I like these kinds of blends, after all, they make a statement against present-day vulgarity: PUH is at odds at scents that are cloying, bold, in your face and offensive for many. I even may call it something like a perfumer's version of what discreet elegance is, in this sense, on the vein of Roger & Gallet's Vetiver, Chanel pour Monsieur, Rocha's Moustache, Dior's Eau Sauvage and Monsieur Givenchy.

I have found the notes set is:

Top Notes: Rosemary, Lavender, Bergamot, Lemon.

Heart Notes: Clary Sage, Cedar, Rose, Brazilian Rosewood.

Base Notes: Tonka Bean, Musk, Oakmoss, Vanilla.

I knew there must be more to this lovely fragrance than just Lavender, Vanilla and Musk.

How much I hate when sales people in the fragrance shop try to pretend to know it all about what suits you best and what not!! When I inquired to sample this much praised work of Caron, the saleslady insisted that it was "outdated and for people over 50". It was when I wasn't a fan of perfumery yet, naturally I didn't argue with her. Wish I gave it a try. But it's definitely in my wish list. After Yatagan..

Noble, "vetivery", masculine fragrance. Not for everyday. Not for everybody. For genuine judges of "simply-sophisticated" masterpieces. In this case - male masterpiece. Strong, sober, respectable, severe, undisputed.

An elegant fragrance simple and clean...not citrusy clean , but well dressed clean, lavander and vanilla are prominent but i also get some amber and orange blossom, lasting power is not that good in spring, i guess is more a summer fragrance.

90/100

personellement je l'aimme ce parfum...meme si il me fait rapelet des( nation????)que j'aimme pas!!!!!pour ne pas dir autres chose qui peut heurtes la sensibiliter des plus .....

This reminds me of my Grandmother's house and an age when lavender was grown in the garden, dried and tied up into little bundles to 'freshen' up drawers of clothes. It was everywhere; inside and out.

On the first spray you get a slightly harsh blast of lavender... but it quickly mellows and reveals a lovely soft vanilla and gentle cinnamon bed. The whole scent has a sought of faded photograph feel - as if the colours have become slightly desaturated and the high contrasts are greyed out. I really like it.

Caron Pour un Homme was conceived in an age with a totally different aesthetic. It's so incredibly far removed from today's army of Young Turks and their omnipresent, high-pitched, screechy aqua potions. As for the people who think that lavender is synonymous with old age, care homes and urine, this fragrance proves them all wrong! It's gorgeous.

Travel back in time (in style) with Caron Pour un Homme.

Although not my cup of tea, it's parallel to the term overpower in vocabularies and is of the most bold perfumes ever.
Pour un Homme had been launched in 1934 and still is on sale! There are many perfume from that time or even recently released which have been discontinued. For example, Aramis Havana reserva.
I disagree with who says it's an old fashion and old men perfume. It's a bit retro, yes, but not a perfume for old men. Maybe because of its extremely aromatic and harshly herbal scent.
Anyway, it's super lasting and super spreading. But may give headache in case of over-apply because of exaggerated smell of lavender and vanilla.

longevity 10/10
projection 10/10

چس از گذر سالیان دراز یعنی 77 سال از لانچ شدن این ادکلن برجسته و عالی در سطح دنیا میگذرد از همسالان او خیلی ها فراموش شده و دیگر اثری از آنها باقی نیست حتی عطرهای متعلق به همین چند سال اخیر داریم که با عدم استقبال عمومی بدرود گفتند اما این عطر بی نظیر کارون یعنی جناب آقای سر پرنس " پورانوم" هنوز که هنوز است بر اریکه سلطنت و قدرت تکیه زده و از محبوبیتش کاسته نشده است
اینکه بعضی از دوستان نظر دارند برای سنین بالا فقط خوب است و پدر بزرگها بنده زیاد قبول ندارم و الان هم روی تن مردان میانسال و حتی جوان هم به مشامم که خورده دیدم متناسب باسن طرف بوده و اصطلاحا به او میامده است بنده الان یک شیشه 200 میلش را که از دوبی خریده ام هنوز گاهی استفاده میکنم و اطرافیانم همیشه سوال میکنند که چی زدی؟ به آنها میگویم و باز دفعه بعد همین سوال را مینمایند!! شاید هر دفعه رایحه آن در فضهاهای مختلف فرق میکند؟
ادکلن پورانوم از نظر من جزو یکی از ماندگارترین عطرهای قرن اخیر خصوصا به قول آقا بهزاد در ایران بشمار میرود
کلاسیک
مردانه
جذاب و گرم
شیرین و وانیلی
آروماتیک و وتیور
بدلیل داشت لاواندر بع عنوان نت اول و اصلی آرامبخش بوده چون در طب سنتی برای بیمارانی که بدنبال راحتی اعصاب و آرامش میگردند بخور و یا استفاده از اسانس لاواندر بر روی پوست و بدن تجویز میگردد و حتی برای از بین بردن خور خور در خواب تجویز میکنند که مقداری اسانس لاواندر به بالش خود زده و استراحت نمایید آنرا از بین میبرد
با دوام و پخش بوی بسیار خوب
پدر بزرگ و جد امجد بسیاری از ادکلنهای حاظر!

Caron pour homme doesn't exactly fit my personal idea of a male fragrance but I love it. Usually I'm not into lavender-centered scents but I had to make an exception for this one as it's quite special. The opening is a bit challenging to my nose as it reminds me of an essential oil made by the benedectine nuns in my town.  It's overwhelmed by a strong lavender note, but in a few minutes it perfectly blends to vanilla and musk turning the fragrance to be absolutely delightful and very comfortable. Easy to wear, refreshing and close to the skin, Caron pour homme is an amazing everydays fragrance and a classic by this extraordinary house. Needs to be moderately applied otherwise it may easily turn a bit too harsh during the opening.

Reference masculine lavender.

Rating: 10/10

If "English Lavander" by Yardley is for women, I don't see why Caron Pour Homme is meant for men! Caron is very universal and even more on the feminine side, IMHO.
This is probably the best crisp lavender rendition I know and I consider it a great summer fragrance, an indispensable holiday trip companion- not overwhelming, refreshing, soothing and relaxing.
In the first stage there is predominantly a lavender kick, but it is by no means harsh or unpleasant. Then, after some 15 minutes lovely vanilla emerges.
Good stuff!

A soft blend of lavender and vanilla with just a final hint of musk. Very understated, a bit old-fashioned. Classic.

Smells like play-dough in the begining but as it dry downs it turns out ok.

Caron Pour Un Homme Fragrance Notes
Top Notes
Lavender, Rosemary, Bergamot, Lemon

Middle Notes
Clary Sage, Rose, Rosewood, Cedarwood

Base Notes
Vanilla, Tonka, Musk, Moss

i got a 4.5 ml bottle from the 80s and i was anxious to smell this much-praises fragrance. Upon application, i immediately smelt lavender, much to my expectations and the first thing that came to my mind was Jicky. I waited several more minutes for the drydown to come out and it paid off. I smell gentle and suave vanilla notes rising up and suddenly toned down by lavender. Imho, it's an evening scent, best worn during spring time. It awakes your senses and informs people of the arrival of a heart-breaker.

Where do i beggin? i bought it but didnt try it till today...and wow what a fragrance...it reminds me of Dior Pour Homme, no; not a copy just with a similar aura(smell the two to see what im talking about) ; Lavander is for sure the protagonist in this beauty but that dont diminish the presence of warm soft vanilla and the attracting trail of musk. In one word: MASTERPIECE.

NO. I will never buy another bottle.

Sure, this is really well made:

Apply 4+ sprays and receive:
a superbly soft and powdery vanilla-lavender drydown for all occasions.

BUT:
It's not exactly a Star Wars adventure for your nose.
I don't buy frags to blend in.
I buy them because they smell interesting.
And how interesting can a baby powder likeness like this possibly be ?

Wonderful creation from Caron,always in my top 10 list. They've been making it for over 3/4 of a century so they must be doing something right. Nice going Caron.

Agreed, with the other reviewers, simply the best lavender fragrance I've ever had the joy of experiencing. It's a beautiful clean lavender, sharp and refreshing, softened with a beautiful vanilla and musk.

Smells a little powdery at the end, but not dated. A true masterpiece that could easily be unisex.

The perfume of my grand parents, my father, uncles, and probalby, my signature scent. A perfume for life

хочу!!!!!! очень интересный и совсем не мужской....

Lavender conjures up many myths and legends Lavender was the favorite of
queen Elizabeth I it cures insect bites
it calms the nerves and helps you sleep
the floral it's self inspired artists &
poets.

it makes me think of a sleepy small
town in the south of France with a small modest chapel and fields and fields of Lavender with elderly
townspeople playing cards children playing middle aged women hanging linnen on the line to dry in the warm sun and your walking though these fields obilvisious of the thing around you the scent put you in a trance
just walking losing sense of time
and you stop in a middle of the fields lay down and rolling though the hill of lavender and fall asleep.

This fragrance is definitely been reformulated,diluted to a large extent,a nice fragrance virtually destroyed.

...

They made a masterpiece by Lavender many years ago! And still it's lovely and unique ..

Longevity and sillage and projection, all are good and acceptable.

I like it ☺

Update: darvish's comment on my review, Accepted.

فکر نمیکنم توی هیچ جای دنیا به اندازه ایران این ادکلن محبوب بوده باشه
همه ما تجربه بوییدن اون رو از پدر و پدربزرگامون داریم
هنوز هم بعد از سالهای سال بی همتا و دوست داشتنیه
دوستش دارم خیلی

This was made in 1934? I can only imagine how modern it must've been back then. It's pretty romantic to think of all the decades this fragrance outlived - definitely timeless.

On paper, Pour Un Homme is the truest lavender I've EVER smelled. It isn't the soothing lavender that would put you to sleep (like on Covet), though. This lavender is sharply aromatic and invigorating and STRONG. It settles down after a few minutes, and thank you rafaeleleniz for identifying the rosemary! It's definitely there. The strong herbs straddle fresh and medicinal in an abstract modern personality. An hour in, the vanilla becomes detectable. Wait another hour and the vanilla takes the lead. The combination of vanilla and lavender is divine. I much prefer this vanilla to the candy-sweets in gourmand scents.

I don't understand why Pour Un Homme isn't unisex - the strong opening is very masculine, but the sweet drydown wouldn't be unpleasant on a woman.

Interestingly, the lavender that smells so good on paper does bizarre things on my skin. My skin makes the lavender smell sour, reminding me of the "scented" shampoo/soap provided by cheap motels. I don't understand it, very frustrating! I paitiently bear it until after half an hour when the delicious vanilla comes in to redeem the herbal pungency of the opening. I wear men's fragrances, and never encountered this on my skin before.

Nice, but on the right skin chemistry.

Outstanding fragrance no matter what!!!!
Very masculine and does not show its age, could have been created recently and nobody would have doubted.
Although Lavander, Vanilla and Musk are the dominant notes, clearly there is a sharp lemon note in the opening, very sharp indeed, together with a hint of rosemary, rose comes through at the heart of this perfume, although coyly and like flirting, kind of misterously. The base shows a faint mossy scent that enhances and elevates the musk to extraordinary heights. There are more subtle notes in this fragrance that unfortunately I do not have the knowledge to properly describe, this scent is much more complex that the simple description in this page. And I should mention too how intensely powdery is its drydown.

hmmmm one of the best!

caron pour homme, ja dieser duft ist wie dr.jekyll und mr. hyde.
es ist am anfang krautig scharf grün, nur lavendel, danach geht es sehr rasch in diesen abgrund der süßen vanille.
es ist heute lediglich den wirklichen liebhabern vorbehalten, ich selbst finde es fast für unverkäuflich und absolut schrecklich.

Top notes are a real yuck to me. Lavender note sounds like totally out of match and harmony, in this cologne.

After almost one hour, it turns into a very sweet smell. I like the vanilla note. I did not feel anything else (i.e. musk) but merely vanilla.

Longevity was subzero on my skin. Specially lavender was lasting long, while vanilla vanished quickly. Disappointed...

Although I am a classic person, but just couldn't take this one. I like it when others wear, but I myself wont go for that, at all!

First impression smelt very simple lavender & sweet vanilla with hints of other stuff that I can't name at the beginning. I think the silage doesn't stay that close to the skin, people should smell you wearing it. and lasts long enough to not be dissapointed. It's very sweet compared to my other more manly fragrances and definitely smells pretty unique, and as time goes on I think the sweet vanilla is dominant. but it's pretty comfortable to wear as long as you're ok with sweet fragrance, and you like vanilla, and you don't over apply it. I think it smells nicer if I don't over apply it. I like the fact that it comes from 1934, if it was a modern fragrance I'd probably like it a bit less. The scent seems to keep changing every now and then when I apply it. sometimes it has a nice smell but occasionally I'll spray it and it'll smell a bit different to usual and a bit weird. generally I like it and have grown to like it more and more

YAHHAHHAHYAHAHA! I got a 750 ml bottle of this for $58!!! The guy who runs The Perfume Corner in Boston is definitely my new buddy. This is one of those great old fragrances that makes ya smell like a man. In fact, I'm going home, showering off my wussy Bond #9, and pouring some on from my new, HUGE, bottle, towering priapically over the rest of my bottles on the dresser. A GREAT lavender, right up there with Jicky, and a much better deal.

Another great classic from Caron! When my husband wears it, it comes across as an interesting Play-Doh-esque amber aroma with a slight touch of green herbs. Lavender often smells sharp and astringent, but its softened by the other notes here. Very well-composed, and like all other Caron fragrances I have tried, it has great sillage and lasts for hours. This one is nice, too, as they make an alcohol-free version that comes in a little roller-ball, if that suits you better. Both the spray and roll-on smell the same and last all day.

Simply the best lavender perfume on the market. Lavender mixed with a hint of vanilla - a very simpe structure, but a beautiful result. Shamus1 is right - if you are in love with lavender, this one will capture your heart.

One of my all time favourites along with Eau Sauvage.
I had another one Balenciaga's Pour Homme, from 60s, but it seems to have disappeared

Quite simply the best lavender fragrance in the world. Enough said.

Once in a while masterpieces like this appear where I live. I came across it twice and each time I snatched it. First the old 100ml bottle you won't even give a second look and years later I stumbled upon the updated 125ml bottle like the one in the poster. Very conservative, stays very close to you, highly respectable scent. what you lose in projection you gain in wearability and you also get a unique intellectual feel. It opens with strong lavender and citrus notes, the progression is gradual and eventually you get that fresh soft musk at the end that lasts and lasts. Guys that love classics will love this and did I mention that no fragrance I've come across smells quite like this.

A soft, herbal-floral composition with a dominant note of lavender, ideal as a masculine, but also lovely, in small quantities, as a feminine.

Ohh I like it, its soft for a mans cologne. Sexy to me. I prefer these scents for men.. ohh la la... I love tonka bean and vanilla. the more I sniff it the more I like it... I'm really wanting to wear this myself thanks leesee for the info..

i think is very classy scent, masculine intellectual,and serius in the end.

I wander if the formula has changed since 1934, any ideas?

Test before you buy some people love it some hate it! pretty modern scent considering it was made in 1934.