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03/30/2023
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Fruity Woods for Her
The fruity woods was a theme that Jacques Polge would play with - on and off - for a decade. And by the time he came to do Senso in 1987, it needed to address the High Eighties style of feminine, to which he gave more panache than it probably deserved.
Part of Polge's genius was the way he could adapt the same idea to a bubblegum tuberose like Senso, or - with equal conviction - the hard dry woody masculine of Égoïste, also 1987.
They were a His and Hers couple, even though they were on different labels.
And both were variants of the fruity woods - which first appeared in Ungaro and Antaeus, both 1981; another His and Hers pairing.
Don't take this for lazy recycling though. Senso - like her partner Égoïste - is excellent, even if it feels dated these days. But that's more to do with the Eighties than any fault of Polge.
The recycling came later when Ungaro relaunched Senso in a hot pink bottle in 1992 - the same year that Chanel released Égoïste Cologne Concentrée, a flanker by François Demachy and Polge ... a third cycle of the His and Hers fruity woods.
Part of Polge's genius was the way he could adapt the same idea to a bubblegum tuberose like Senso, or - with equal conviction - the hard dry woody masculine of Égoïste, also 1987.
They were a His and Hers couple, even though they were on different labels.
And both were variants of the fruity woods - which first appeared in Ungaro and Antaeus, both 1981; another His and Hers pairing.
Don't take this for lazy recycling though. Senso - like her partner Égoïste - is excellent, even if it feels dated these days. But that's more to do with the Eighties than any fault of Polge.
The recycling came later when Ungaro relaunched Senso in a hot pink bottle in 1992 - the same year that Chanel released Égoïste Cologne Concentrée, a flanker by François Demachy and Polge ... a third cycle of the His and Hers fruity woods.
