APOM Homme Maison Francis Kurkdjian 2009

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APOM Homme is a popular perfume by Maison Francis Kurkdjian for men and was released in 2009. The scent is floral-sweet. The longevity is above-average. It was last marketed by LVMH.

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Perfumer

Francis Kurkdjian

Fragrance Notes

Amber

Tunisian orange blossom

Cedarwood

Ratings

Scent

8.1654 Ratings

Longevity

8.3549 Ratings

Sillage

7.4536 Ratings

Bottle

8.5484 Ratings

Value for money

7.155 Ratings

Submitted by Kankuro, last update on 02.05.2022.

Interesting Facts

APOM stands for "a part of me".

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10/18/2021

Wombatkönig

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Wombatkönig

Helpful Review 3

From disappointed expectations

APOM - I wanted you so badly.

And yet you disappoint me. Every time anew. And not even because you are a bad fragrance. You are "my" prime example of completely different expectations based on the fragrance pyramid.

What I expected:
A really fresh citrusy summer scent with a slightly sweet twist

What I got:
A (honey) sweet scent with a citrus-floral twist

It is now idle to discuss whether I myself am to blame for these false expectations or not.
In any case, it is not possible for me to befriend me with this - my expectations so missing fragrance image - although it smells quite not bad.
For me, the fragrance triggers a slightly oppressive sensation (probably by the sweetness), whereby I see the fragrance also not in summer or warmer temperatures, but still most likely in the transitional months.

For me, by the way, APOM knows a clear parallel to Versace's "The Dreamer", if you mentally exchange the orange blossom for the tobacco blossom. (Yes, the Dreamer is still a bit sweeter.)

Too bad, but here are irreconcilable differences and there helps only one thing: divorce!

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04/23/2021

10
Scent 10
Longevity 8
Sillage 9
Bottle 7
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Smoetn

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Smoetn

Top Review 29

The obituary - a whole community mourns and loses a part of itself

The funeral procession just crossed the cemetery to the last escort of the deceased. The weather was typical April weather, but the mourners were warmed by the sunny rays that occasionally broke through the cloud cover. The fact that the sun was shining was the last highlight of the glorious career of the deceased, as "APOM" unfolded best in these rays of sunshine. And so there was also a smile on the faces of most of the mourners, for the thought of this faithful companion touched the hearts of all.

Among the guests were many younger ones who knew they would never hold a candle to "APOM". Among those present were "L'Homme a la rose" or "Petit matin", who always tried hard to emulate their idols, but would never reach them.

But also heavyweights like "Grand Soir" or "Oud Satin Mood" have set out to pay their last respects to their older brother. Still others were also already in the ground, most notably "Lumiere Noire Homme".

None of those present could understand why the best among them had to die so early. So there was also great sadness and anger among the guests, as they simply could not understand. Nevertheless, the mourning was welcomed, as it is a process that helps to cope with the loss of a companion. However, not only grieving itself, but also remembering the deceased is an essential part of the grieving process as well as honoring and remembering the one who has been laid to rest.

When the funeral procession finally came to a halt at the designated grave, "Grand Soir" broke away from the crowd and began the eulogy:

"Dear brother, dear role model, dear APOM,

a full seven years older than I, you were always an anchor in turbulent times for many for those gathered here today, and thus always a part of us. With your fresh, flowery and also slightly sweet nature, you always brought a smile to the lips of those who were privileged to know you. Yes, you were a simple contemporary, you clearly stood against modern frills and fleeting trends. You were sensual, warm and almost tender. But you were also noble, classic and timeless from the very beginning. And even if your inner concentration was not one of the strongest, you were always radiant and always accompanied your loved ones for a long time.
You were the epitome of the classic man of the world and never pretended to be anything else. You were able to provide comfort and were just there when you were needed. You combined your penchant for orange blossom and cedar like no one before you or after you. Yes, you weren't loved by everyone, but you were loved by a lot. Some thought you were old-fashioned, but I say you were always up-to-date and on the cutting edge.
Happy can consider themselves, who was allowed to experience you during your lifetime and even happier can consider themselves those who can carry you even longer in their hearts and on their skin. We will miss you, beloved brother, you were and are irreplaceable. We will all remember you forever and can only hope that one day someone will emerge who can follow in your great footsteps. You were always a part of us and will forever remain a part of us!"

With these words, the last remains of "APOM" were laid to rest, and the mourners slowly dispersed, each one hanging on to their own thoughts. But now the sun finally came out and each and every one of them knew that "APOM" would watch over them from now on and always at the first warm rays of the sun all of them would remember "APOM".

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07/01/2020

5
Scent 8
Longevity 7
Sillage

DarkWinterCS

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DarkWinterCS

Top Review 9

Yes ? No ? Maybe!

Once again I get a scent of Maison Francis Kurkdjian under my nose and again it's one that has haunted me since the beginning of my perfume days. Since I have experienced really great scents with my two scents tested so far by MFK, called Oud and Grand Soir, I was hoping for a similar enthusiasm from my side. How often did I read "A Part of Me" in the fragrance consultations, how often did I see it in collections. There must be something about this fragrance that inspires others and that I might have missed so far. I couldn't help but organize the fragrance as a bottling and get a picture of this perfume for myself.

At the moment, my passion for testing is again - for me - taking on overflowing traits, which is why I had many different grades under my nose. That's positive in so far as, from a certain level on, you can break down the notes and chords which you like and which you don't like so much. Especially in the last few weeks I have also experienced some scents that gave me a shiver. So I could find out that dark vetivernotes appeal to me, the lighter ones often seem soapy. Furthermore, that rose in combination with woods leads to my known problems, but that the combination with resinous notes, amber or honey are much more compatible. Even with fresh scents I have no problems with neroli and green plants, as long as they are incorporated into a sweetish blend or covered with wood.
Now in APOM the orange blossom is very much in the foreground. Without anticipating everything, this note is definitely on my black list in its purity, as in this fragrance. An ingredient that beamed me right away the first time I sprayed it on and reminds me of the little refreshing scents from my grandmother's bathroom.

APOM is a true representative of pure orange blossom. Only APOM can be truly intense, clear and pure. After this rhyme I have to say that this soap that projects my skin is simply not mine. I fully acknowledge the quality of the perfume, as the scent does not have any frills, but focuses on the orange blossom. I definitely notice how the notes in the background attach themselves to the blossom. These fine woody notes and a gossamer sweetness seem to go right through and know how to please. However, they also remain far away, making the fragrance not more pleasant for me.

The Sillage was really striking on my skin just at the beginning and enveloped me with this intense flower composition. This is not what you expect from such fragrances and it surprised me a bit. As soon as this fades away the scent becomes like a second skin and lies down undisturbed. You can hear the scent from time to time during movements without it becoming disturbing. But I could hear this already with the other two MFKs. The durability is here also not negatively noticed and does its work well
This fragrance is not what I had hoped for, but it was interesting to see how pure and fine this orange blossom was transformed. I could already see the quality in the other two fragrances and I am always amazed. So now I can check off the next fragrance that has been buzzing around in my head for a long time.
But please test it yourself and be surprised.

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06/04/2020

7
Scent 7
Longevity 6
Sillage 10
Bottle

Emorandeira
370 Reviews

Emorandeira

Not for me...

I have recieve a sample of this perfume but this is just not for me.i can recognize the quality of the MFK perfumes and the art of kurkdjian with flowers but this is not very pleasant on my skin. It remember me a lot to some aftershave that my grandfather usted when i was a child. In my opinión this is a very classy scent, with a Well blended Orange blossom but with some dirty vibe that i suppose comes from this flowers.
The longevity is not bad for being an EDT but on my skin disappears more or less fast (4-5 hours) with an average projection. I can understand that there are peaople Who could LOVE the fragance but i recommend to try before buying because this is not what i expected at all according to most of the reviews i read before

Scent: 7
Longevity: 7
Sillage: 6
Quality/price: 4
Versatility: 9
Originality: 5
Global: 6.5

02/16/2020

9.5
Scent 7
Longevity 7
Sillage 8
Bottle 5
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Sonny94

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Sonny94

Top Review

No headline necessary!!!

After meanwhile 6 years of Parfumo I feel tired, exhausted, it seems as if you have smelled everything before. Be it the countless new releases by designers or the highly praised niche fragrances.
Once a former teacher said "There are many good football players, but only a handful who have the talent to be outstanding" and so it is with perfume.
Sauvage, Belu de Chanel, Aventus, Epic Man or the highly acclaimed Baccarat Rouge all have good scents but lack the talent to be outstanding or even unique.

So the search continues for the one that comes closest to the holy grail. Tests upon tests. I finally stumbled upon the name Maison Francis Kurkdjian. Never heard of it! Can this guy do anything. Oh yes, I see Le Male is from him. Doubt but what the heck! Apom sounds good, high ratings why not, order sample and wait!

A few days later the sample is there. It is sprayed on without great expectations. Disillusionment! Hate! Horror! It smells boring, too much orange, too musty, too stale. The sample should be tested a few more times before it disappears for a long time, back in the cupboard.

Months later. A cooler grey Sunday. I take the bottling in my hand and I push on it. Nothing special! Lay me down on the couch and watch something on Netflix!
Suddenly a bright flash in the sky, a flaming meteor crashes to earth.
My heart beats faster, the dolls dilate, my hands are bathed in sweat. I smell these unique organs, so beautiful, so warm. I close my eyes and start dreaming. I am walking along a lonely beach at the North/Baltic Sea. It is too cold to swim in October. The wind is blowing, it is cloudy has still around 12 degrees. A single ray of sunlight comes through the cloudy sky and touches my skin. And Apom my soul!

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10/26/2019

10
Scent 9
Longevity 8
Sillage 10
Bottle 9
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DerDefcon

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DerDefcon

Top Review 24

Three-phase masterpiece

Huh? He has already written a comment to this fragrance, some of you may think now. Yes, I did, actually. I took this one back to my mind and asked myself why I tried to describe the scent process or the scent character with the most complicated comparisons from nature. Some things even read so strange for me that I want to start a new attempt here again.

Three components are listed in Kurkdjian's "APOM pour homme". Yes, there are only three, but what the creator of "Le Male" does with only these three components, how he lets them play with each other, how he doesn't present the wearer with any riddles, because he really only perceives what the fragrance pyramid presents, is simply only great art.

Sprayed on my wrist, the orange blossom wafts around me. This one is loud, very sweet and completely single at the beginning. If you don't like this fragrance, you won't be happy here, not even in the later course of the fragrance. Well, that should be predictable when you look at the list of ingredients, but I just wanted to mention it.

The noisy bloomer takes a step back after a few minutes. You have to wait a little for the other two scents. Within this waiting loop, the whole thing is quite feminine, as it is still purely floral, without a great contrast program, consisting of scents that know how to embed the orange blossom between themselves.
That embedding then takes place after about thirty minutes, but please don't nail me down on time. Our orange blossom is ambered, as I like to say. Ambrieren means that the flowering herb, however loud it may be in the beginning, has a wonderfully powdery background. Our little water now slowly gets its corners and edges, gets a bit of dirt and filth here and there, but never too much, which seems to be in Kurkdjian's spirit, whose compositions are all quite rounded in nature - apart from a few exceptions.

Another half hour has passed and the third element, the cedar wood I like so much, is noticeable. It surrounds the ambry orange blossom with its absolutely dry, even dusty woodiness, in which - typical for cedar wood - a very light, really discreet sweetness also resonates, but which due to this dryness never takes on sticky character traits.
This concludes the course of the fragrance itself. It's predictable, but still fascinating. Again, it turns out that it doesn't take an enormous amount of ingredients in fragrance pyramids to create something big.

I'm holding:

"APOM pour homme" is a masterfully composed scent water that has the potential to become a signature scent that plays in the first league of floral scents alongside "Lumière Noire pour homme". It can actually always be worn, except in the height of summer, because of me, it provides a careful dose of olfactory variety at work and harmonises perfectly with my skin chemistry. "APOM pour homme" belongs to the cheaper fragrances from Kurkdjian, probably related to the fact that it is "only" an eau de toilette. But it is one that does not need to hide from the shelf life of an eau de parfum. It is one that can also be very communicative if you are careless when dosing. It's one that clearly shows that an eau de toilette can last a long time. It's one that's gonna be moving in with me for the next few months.

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09/23/2019

10
Scent 10
Longevity 9
Sillage 10
Bottle

Nayrobi

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Nayrobi

sensual, powdery orange blossom scent

Hi folks!

I am a huge fan of MFK and this fragrance was worth buying a whole bottle of it. I find the quality of the MFK fragrances is outstanding, both in the masterly fragrance compositions, the quality of the flavors and also the bottles with the great, unique cap. A true jewel in every collection.
Since I am very selective regarding new purchases and I like to have samples and fillings and test them thoroughly on myself, it doesn't happen so often that I already knew somehow at the first test on paper that the scent could become a candidate to permanently move in with me
It smells wonderfully flowery already on paper, with a sweet orange blossom note and somehow like makeup. Because I'm more of a fan of masculine scents and I'm too powdery scents actually do not like to wear (but in any case like to smell at home for me!), this scent has something sensual and is so sexy that I like to wear it very much and full of pride.
The fragrance has no corners or edges at all, but is ultra smooth, elegant and accessible from start to finish.
The right opportunity to spray on this delight is still a certain "challenge", but since I don't attach great importance neither to compliments nor to the opinion of others (regarding my fragrances), this is just such a fragrance, whose naming couldn't be better.

APOM = a piece of me - says it all and I just feel completely comfortable with it. The intensity in spite of the EdT concentration is really unique - he has such an immense charisma and lasts with me the whole day.

The scent is not very pronounced in comparison, there is something woody to add later, but the first impression (sweet, orange, powder) will last the whole life.

That is perfect for me for cool spring evenings outdoors, feel-good factor high 10.

A beautiful part and I can really recommend it to every Metrosexual man ;)

Love,
Robert

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05/26/2019

9
Scent 9
Longevity 7
Sillage 7
Bottle

Basti87

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Basti87

Top Review 22

Powerful sensual orange blossom

Now also a comment from me on the APOM. I have tested myself almost through the whole range of MFK and it is one of my favourite brands. In niche in any case, since you get high quality fragrances at still humane prices. Apom is definitely one of the superstars and bestsellers of this brand, with many very well received and there are few fragrances that somehow acidify in the store. I could get almost all of them because I like this DNA from this brand. Kurkdjian has a handwriting, which can be found in many scents, mostly with not too big scent course and not with too many scents. I like it very much.
I already tested this fragrance a few months ago because I ordered a small bottling. I was curious, because I find flowery scents interesting for gentlemen. I have also had the fragrance twin Nikos Sculpture mentioned here in my collection for years. I can say in advance: both go roughly in the same direction, but both also have their own facets.

The price of the fragrance is fair. You can get 70ml for about 120 Euro. Not cheap but reasonably fair for MFK quality. You get a noble bottle and a beautiful noble packaging. Lumiere Noire and Amyris Homme I already have and some may follow.
As it says in the text above: APOM means a part of me and stands for its Lebanese roots. Only 3 fragrances are indicated: Orange blossom, amber and cedar wood. Cedar is the national symbol of Lebanon, which can also be seen on the flag. Whether really only these three are included... you don't know.
The fragrance starts very strong. A challenge for indoor activities and events at the start. That settles from hour two: Then it becomes significantly gentler and stylish and noble. Of course the orange blossom is the star of this composition. It is perceptible over the entire course and in the foreground. Those who do not like this fragrance will not be happy with this fragrance. I like that grade very much. Can I be some situations too much, but often a great sensual touch. Especially from hour two a beautiful summer scent with soft wood and sensual amber. As I said: Those who like a lot of progress will be disappointed here. But normal for small pyramids. I like it.
In my opinion, APM is best in spring and summer. Especially for dates, leisure, evening and outdoor activities. Also in the sun a good companion who comes across noble. Generally, however, a year-round fragrance that leaves a good impression even at cooler temperatures.
Performance is especially extreme at the start and not suitable for everyone. However, the Sillage quickly becomes softer and yet it is easily perceptible for a long time. It lasts a few hours. I'm guessing between 8 and 9 hours.

All in all a great stylish and sensual fragrance that suits some occasions. Thanks to this great orange blossom also unisex-suitable, whereby the ladies version is also very very beautiful. Orange blossom fans must take a test.

6 Replies

05/19/2019

9
Scent 9
Longevity 8
Sillage 8
Bottle

Galahad

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Galahad

Very helpful Review 5

L´Eau de Winnie Pooh - or less is more

APOM pour Homme from the hand of the great Kurkdjian is a fragrance that can lift my mood from the cellar to the top floor within seconds.
In its simple trinity of the pyramid of essences, the fragrance is both simple and yet wonderfully harmoniously composed. The colour of the perfume reflects all the associations I associate with the course of the fragrance.
But why now the name after the probably best known cartoon bear of the world. On the one hand because it has the same colour as APOM, on the other hand because this miracle water works as if it had been matured in a honey pot. Apart from the first few seconds of the opening note, the fragrance is woven with a honey sweetness that lies on the skin like warm sunlight. If you look more closely at honey, you will notice that the flowers of the nectar suppliers are decisive for the taste of the end product. On French markets, for example, there is a diverse variety of flower honey from a wide variety of habitats. From the simple forest or flower honey to the spicier lavender honey, the sugar-sweet nectar differs both in taste and colour. In the kitchen I appreciate this fine sweetness very much and replace almost every sugar with it.
The honey sweetness in APOM clearly comes from an orange blossom. To sum up, the scent for me can be described as a large pot of orange blossom honey, which stands in a glass-covered orangery between trees and the sun shines on its scent in the room spreads. This is the place this wonderful mood enhancer puts me in. Light, orange and yellow tones surround me as well as a juicy green of the leaves and a dark brown of the wood, whereby the scent does not slip unbearably into the sweetness. The discreet wood note provides a mature spice, so that the syrupy heaviness is also well bearable on warmer days I definitely see APOM on the first sunny days of spring, but also in summer with a light breeze and below 25 degrees. Perfect with a white shirt or polo shirt and probably most suitable in a more Mediterranean flair. Here the small honey bear projects 8-10 hours loosely and provides for a sunny light aura in good mood.
Due to the little changing fragrance pyramid only a small point deduction. Otherwise, APOM is nobly composed from start to finish and Kurkdjian proves once again that three fragrance components are completely sufficient to create a first-class fragrance.

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04/04/2019

8
Scent 8
Longevity 7
Sillage 7
Bottle

Pepdal
228 Reviews

Pepdal

APOM Pour Homme ...or femme

Here is my review of APOM Pour Homme by Maison Francis Kurkdjian. Although it is labelled Homme, I found this to be 100% unisex. One of the first from this house I ever tried...