Pour Lui Oscar de la Renta 1980 Eau de Toilette

Pour Lui (Eau de Toilette) by Oscar de la Renta

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Pour Lui (Eau de Toilette) (Oscar de la Renta)

8.0 / 10 304 Ratings

Pour Lui (Eau de Toilette) is a popular perfume by Oscar de la Renta for men and was released in 1980. The scent is spicy-woody. The production was apparently discontinued.
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Main accords

Spicy

Woody

Leathery

Floral

Green

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Aldehydes

Lavender

Sage

Juniper berry

Aniseed

Basil

Bergamot

Caraway

Galbanum

Heart Notes

Carnation

Geranium

Patchouli

Cinnamon

Cyclamen

Cedar

Vetiver

Base Notes

Oakmoss

Leather

Musk

Labdanum

Sandalwood

Ratings

Scent

8.0304 Ratings

Longevity

8.0251 Ratings

Sillage

7.5254 Ratings

Bottle

7.2261 Ratings

Value for money

8.780 Ratings

Submitted by Easyfish, last update on 19.04.2024.

Reviews

13 in-depth fragrance descriptions

09/21/2013

10
Longevity 9
Scent

Silverfire
130 Reviews

Silverfire

Top Review 10

A Gothic Masterpiece

Prior to my blind buy, all I knew about Oscar de la Renta pour Lui (ODLRPL) I learned from reviews. First, this was an 80's powerhouse scent. Then, it must be somewhat gothic, for another reviewer claimed it was something that a vampiric lord would wear. I was certain, however, that it wasn't pronounced like it read -- "Poor Louie." I thought of an unfortunate Hungarian worker, fingers mangled by a meat grinder.

I applied two sprays to my skin. The first word that came to my lips was "seductive" -- and I almost never use that word in connection with fragrances. The initial scent is a sweet wine mingled with spices. Then the carnation shows up to complete the picture. The prominent note for me was carnation, but a carnation dirtied in time by spices, by soap, by wine, by sweat. It is only the second floral note I've experienced that doesn't come across as pretty and feminine; this is the scent of ancient power, and the class of violence.

As a powerhouse scent, two sprays is too much, and as you might expect from the notes, it's a real scent-shifter. At any time, I can pick out at least five different notes ranging from the animalic, to the sweaty, the soapy, the fresh, and always, the carnation. I can see how this is beguiling and hypnotizing to women if worn by a man.

ODLRPL became an animalic floral by hour six, and there it remained as a skin scent for over twenty-four hours. Initially it filled my car, but no-one at work complained, so silage doesn't cross into the red zone.

This fragrance strikes me as a formal scent, probably best with business clothes up to tuxedos with tails. You can go business casual with it -- I did -- but formal clothes would prove a more fitting visual accompaniment to this serious, powerful, classy, manly fragrance.

Highly recommended.

05/19/2013

5
Bottle 7.5
Sillage 2.5
Longevity 8
Scent

Drseid
819 Reviews

Drseid

Helpful Review 9

One of The Best Mens Fragrances From The Great 80s Era...

*This is a review of the vintage Oscar pour Lui.

Oscar pour Lui (vintage) opens with a combination of bergamot citrus and subdued aldehydes, mixing with patchouli and cinnamon from its heart. At this point the fragrance leans on the sweet side of the spectrum with an almost honey-like underlying accord permeating its early development. As the fragrance enters its early heart the aldehydes and citrus die while the cinnamon and patchouli join carnation and cyclamen florals supported by oakmoss and soft leather from the base as the fragrance gradually turns less sweet. During the late dry-down the oakmoss remains though is just detectable, while slightly sweet sandalwood and clean musk send off the scent. Projection is very good and longevity is below average to average at about 5-6 hours on skin.

Oscar pour Lui (vintage) is a great example of all the best things fragrance-wise of the 80s. It projects quite well though never coming off as harsh or repellant, sharing more than glancing similarities at times (especially early) with the exceptional vintage Van Cleef & Arpels pour Homme. I can see Oscar pour Lui (vintage) working all-year round in just about any situation imaginable with its smooth and at times sweet cinnamon spiced leather and patchouli driven overall heart accord over a mossy woody backbone. It smells great and offers superb value even at its current after-market prices for vintage bottles, earning an "excellent" and highly recommended rating of 4 stars out of 5.

10/21/2021

9
Pricing 7
Bottle 8
Sillage 9
Longevity 8.5
Scent

PedroCabral
133 Reviews

PedroCabral

Helpful Review 10

Dark Horse

After reading so many wonderful reviews about this perfume, even though some of them are in a negative tone, I see an enormous wealth of details and sensations that this fragrance awakens in people and, consequently, the detailed descriptions of the reviews are extended.

Sometimes even a negative description can instigate a desire to taste and have a certain scent. And that's what occurred to me!

I decided to incorporate a character with a "dark", melancholic, gothic and mysterious facet to dive into this perfume and draw my conclusions.

After reading several reviews that related this perfume to something dark, I decided that this olfactory experience could only lead me to paths I had never walked before.

When spraying this perfume, the aldehydes together with basil and galbanum give it a green, bitter, pungent air, which I notice a slightly "chemical" tone, which perhaps makes many people abhor this long perfume when they feel this exit. But I also feel a light sweet and spicy touch that breaks a little of the harshness of the starting notes. The lavender here is wild, aromatic, but with a vibe of industrialized lavender in the form of some disinfectant product, not that the perfume itself feels like a cleaning product, but this opening is like opening a heavy, dark door, that squeaks as you pull it. This is Oscar pour Lui's welcome.

After a couple of minutes this unfriendly opening reveals another denser phase, and this is where the magic of this perfume happens. Walk around a forest in mid-autumn, leaves fallen to the ground, a cold night, thick fog and a mysterious aroma of woods and leaves being swept by a mysterious breeze.

After a few minutes, the middle notes take over the aroma, pulling a little of the base notes with them, at this stage I feel a musky, dense and somewhat "dusty" floral touch, as if they picked up some flowers still without blooming and slowly their petals lost the liveliness and smell of the fullness of your existence. This gloomy floral carries with it a woody feel that resembles rustic furniture made with some hardwood. Cinnamon is notable, giving it a spicy, dry and slightly sweet air, very slightly. And along with this profusion of notes, the leather and moss notes stand out, giving all the strength and personality of this perfume. The leather in this perfume escapes the feeling of polished and polished leather so common in contemporary fragrances, this is a leather that reminds me of an old shoe shop, where the leather still had an animalic and acrid smell, as well as the moss that mixes with the leather leaving it with a dense, greenish and woody aroma, something almost "botanical".

Wonderful descriptions have already been drawn about the dark character of this fragrance, but to contribute from another perspective to this imagery, I cite some other fictional or real characters who would delight in using such essence, such as the villain Hannibal Lecter, Colonel Hans Landa of movie Inglourious Bastards, the psychoanalyst physician Sigmund Freud or Michael Corleone of the Godfather.

I also see a scene where men are in a club, playing and drinking, dressed in pinstripe suits, smoking cigars, sitting on leather armchairs listening to Blues or Jazz.

Having and using the Oscar Pour Lui is an act of resistance, a breath that embodies the antithesis of everything that is launched and desired today.

11/28/2020

4
Bottle 6
Sillage 6
Longevity 8
Scent

PicSniper
15 Reviews

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PicSniper

Very helpful Review 4

Versatile

After the first application, the idea of the typical 70-80s, powerful fragrance with the freshness, almost soapy, shower gel-like, that is so familiar from that time comes spontaneously. But then after a few minutes it comes - it becomes softer, a little leather and cinnamon join in. It turns into a real gentleman's outgoing fragrance, which comes across as really elegant, clean and masculine. He can never hide the 70-80s vibe, on the contrary, but it's exactly this mixture that makes this fragrance so special.

The bottle is unfortunately not of very high quality. The cap doesn't fit right, and the whole thing looks cheap. But it's not so important to me personally, as long as the content fits
Concerning Sillage one can say that it is well perceptible for 3 hours, but then it is pretty soon over. Longer on the skin, of course, but after all you want to be noticed in your surroundings. It's never bombastic but it's nice and discreetly present in the first hours.

The hammer in terms of price, of course, which is why you can also spray it once :-).

11/28/2020

7
Pricing 6
Bottle 10
Sillage 6
Longevity 7
Scent

ThomC
20 Reviews

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ThomC

Soapy 70s firecracker with quirks

It came out in 1980, and is thus in the grey zone between the dark and spicy 70s style and the upbeat and eye-catching 80s - although it would like to place it clearly stylistically in the 70s. In retrospect, releasing a fragrance like this in 1980 was not exactly innovative, let alone style-forming - it was simply made to play it safe, exploiting the olfactory zeitgeist of the past 70s. Olay, let's leave it at that, others were no better I'm surprised by the rather high ratings here on Parfumo - the only thing I'm going along with is silliage and durability - which is kindly said to be room filling to flashy to annoying, but always worth the little money. It sticks to the skin like eagle owl. But what use is it to me if the scent is only moderately presentable to socially acceptable. Don't get me wrong: I really like these typical anachronistic 70s scents, these classic soapy oakmoss leather scents, which were so common and so rare for today's perfumes. Only they were and are available from other manufacturers more beautiful, better, more elegant. Probably reformulated a lot, but fuck it.
Pour Lui by Oscar de la Renta appears brute to clumsy, bordering on a headache in the top note, but this subsides. Only certain subtleties do not emerge here, it remains relatively one-dimensional. Others in this style can do this much better: the Bogart as an example, five years earlier and thus fitting in perfectly with the times. It has that certain something that the Renta always lacks in its rugged rumbliness. Or the Bogart One Man Show, which was also released in 1980, he can also do better, although more floral and accessible. And as a reference class of such fragrances, the 1978 Ted Lapidus Pour Homme shows where the soap-leather hammer hangs. Not to mention Caron's supernatural Yatagan. All of them - and some more - put Renta in its place. Not a fragrance from that time that you have to have, but you can if you want to go on a historical journey through time and have 20 loops too many on your account.

* for noses that also love Lagerfeld Classic
* the music to the fragrance ---> "Born to Be Alive" by Patrick Hernandez

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