Remember that lovely "rice steam" note from Kenzo Amour? Poopoo Pidoo, one of the debut fragrances from French niche line Ego Facto, takes that idea and brings it into sharper focus.1 Poopoo Pidoo is a powdery floral by perfumer Dominique Ropion, and I take it it's supposed to be sexy — the tag line is "declare that you're not just the girl they think you are" and the brand description notes that "...just like the person wearing it, it is not that well-behaved". I haven't made up my mind about the sexy part, but I love Poopoo Pidoo.
It starts with a sharp, citrus-y orange blossom, and very quickly moves into the gauzy, rice powder/heliotrope heart, which smells like a dusty blend of marshmallow cream, basmati rice and crushed toasted almonds (the listed notes: citrus, orange blossom, rice powder, amber, woods and musk). It's edible but not overwhelmingly sweet: candy for grown-ups, perhaps?
The base is woody musk, and just heavy enough to place Poopoo Pidoo squarely into the Wood Pudding fragrance family.2 The musk itself is delightfully unclean: I wouldn't personally go so far as to call it skanky, but it comes just close enough, perhaps, to justify the sexy ad copy. For my part Poopoo Pidoo, like other wood pudding scents, is a comfort scent as much as anything else, though: it's absolutely perfect for the cold, dreary weather we're having here this week. The lasting power is excellent.
Ego Facto Poopoo Pidoo is available in 50 ml Eau de Parfum for $90; for buying information see the listing for Ego Facto under Perfume Houses.
1. The "Poopoo Pidoo" comes from the song I Wanna Be Loved By You, as sung by Marilyn Monroe in Some Like It Hot.
2. A fragrance family of my own devising, mind you. No need to go searching for it on the internets. But you can see other Wood Pudding fragrances by clicking on 'Wood Pudding' in the list of tags, below.
Basmati rice? I am loving the Basmati Rice note in Ormonde Jayne’s Champaca this week!
That’s a great scent! But it’s nothing like this one at all, other than the rice notes.
scrambling to the perfume cabinet to retrieve my sample……
Let me know what you think!
It’s been about 30 minutes since I gave myself a spritz…I do get the rice note —love that!—-and I still have plenty of the zesty bergamot going on, but the powdery heliotrope and rice temper the citrus enough that it moves into that dessert/pudding realm but not sweet at all (which is good) . I’m not really getting any woodiness, but it’s early yet so I’ll keep running my nostrils up and down my arm….
btw, I love the classification “wood pudding” although I have more nutmeggy things under that tag.
Thanks for another great review Robin. I had forgotten this was in the cabinet…I definitely like it better in cold weather than in hot. 🙂
You keep up these great mini reviews, Daisy, and Robin is going to put you on the staff. 😉
nah, I could revert to “yummm” and “ewww” without a moment’s notice! 😉
No – leave the yummm and ewww remarks to me – I can’t come up with evocative descriptions to save my life. You won’t come across a more pedestrian writer than me. That’s one of the reasons I enjoy this blog so much – well the great writing and the swell folks to ‘hang around’ with. Daisy – when you get around to sampling the Kenzo Amour – I’d like to know how this compares in your opinion.
sometimes a good “yumm” or “eww” pretty much says it all!
I meant to try Kenzo amour today but got distracted…now I’m steeped in Bois des Iles, Poopoopidoo, and Chinatown–which I’ve decided I love!
Mmmm – Bois des Iles. 🙂
decanting tonight–and probably tomorrow too 🙂
*Crazy pedant alert.* I believe this is another hilariously willful French mistranslations in the vein of “Fat Electrician.” Marilyn is singing “Boop boop a doo,” and she’s stealing the line from (or doing a tribute to) Betty Boop–a cartoon character, who, though she was a brunette, had a figure and manners not unlike Ms. Marilyn in Some Like It Hot. I tried to search You Tube for a clip of Ms. Betty doing her signature ending but I’m afraid my time-wasting will have to stop with this comment, LOL. Looks like lots of cool clips to see, though!
I was guessing that Boop-Oop-A-Doop and Boop-Boop-Be-Doop were intelectual property of whoever owns the Betty Boop charachter, so the selective paraphasia was a way to save a few bucks.
Isn’t Betty out of copyright by now?
Gosh, I’d think.
I also thought that maybe the “Poo Poo” in Poo Poo Pidoo has to do with “poo poo” being the French for doll . . . given the funny ad photo. How does one get a sample of this??
Oh, I answered my wn question when I went to luckyscent. That’s awesome.
You beat me to it!
P.S. I love wood pudding! (The category, and the name for the category.)
Yes, totally. I was musing the other day to my poor boyfriend, who clearly thinks that I am mental, about how I would love a perfume that smells like corn pudding and sandalwood. He gets this little crease between his eyebrows when he contemplates institutionalizing me. It’s so cute!
Oh, that sounds so good! I probably need to be put away too.
2nd that!
Gosh darnit, R. Didn’t see you’d linked to wikipedia until after I commented. Sorry for announcing what you already knew… That’s what happens when the crazy pedant comes out to play.
‘S ok! They’ve actually got a clip on their website so that you can listen to the song while you read about the perfume, but I didn’t link to that because it’s one of those (annoying) flash websites so you can’t link directly to individual pages.
Here’s a little tiny one of Betty Boop (25 sec.) doing the “boop”!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIfe36kgvfo&feature=related
Awesome, thanks!
I love what turns up on Wikipedia. Never would have known Betty Boop was modeled on a real singer. Also, “Some Like it Hot” is just a great movie.
And that the singer sued!! That part was interesting.
Sounds yummy – I love ‘candy for grown-ups’!
It’s worth a try!
This sounds really exciting, but I think I would be telling people I’m wearing “Ego Facto.” Can’t say I’m wearing Poopoo Pidoo.
Oh, you could say it if you put your hand on your hip and said it Betty Boop style… don’t forget to wink.
If you ever met me in person you would know how completely I could *not* pull that off ! 🙂 I can get away with a lot of things, but “cute” is not one of them.
plus–you might say : ” poopoo pidoo” but what if what they ‘hear’ is “poopy-doo” ??? The last thing I want to known for is wearing “poopy-doo”.
uuh, that was meant to be: …the last thing I want to BE known for …
You can always lie.
I love Kenzo Amour. Poopoo Pidoo is on my mus try list, if it ever comes overhere.
on my must try list, I was to quick.
Hope you’ll find it!
Sounds delightfully soft and white–marshmellows, rice, blanched almonds–like almond rice crispy treats! I’ll try to find it and try–love rice notes.
You know, it isn’t a dark scent really, but it’s darker than “white”, if that makes sense.
Light toasty brown?
Exactly!
Wood pudding! Yum!
Attrape Coeur must be the queen of wood puddings!
Hopefully, I will get to try this one soon.
Hugs!
Innnnnnteresting… I do love Attrape-Coeur, but I would have called it “candied violet + brandied peaches,” not Queen of the Wood Puddings. I love the amber in it and don’t get anything milky at all. Perception is so individual!
Am not generally a big fan of the wood pudding genre, although I do like Organza Indecence.
I was going to comment in a similar vein, but thought better of it. Since Mals started, though, why not… I think of AC as floral on a warm vanillic-ambery base. For me, wood pudding is all about Bois Farine.
Sorry, but it smells like yummy vanilla liqueur pudding to me! 🙂
I totally get the wood pudding in Attrape Coeur….no candied violets….but yes to the brandied peaches and vanilla pudding with sweet woody undertones….and now…I’m hungry… 😉
Man, where’s the wood in mine?? All I smell is that glorious amber.
On second thought, hold the wood. I really like that amber.
Now Histoires des Parfums Blanc Violette, THAT was some wood pudding. Much more attractive to me than Kenzoamour, IMHO.
HAHAHAHA! Blanc Violette is the closest to lightly sugared violets I’ve ever smelled!! with no “wood pudding” anywhere in the vicinity!!! Naturally: because I LOVE wood pudding!
Speaking of Blanc Violette, I have a hugmungous bottle–do you need some more??
Ummmmm… NO. Still not a wood pudding fan. But thanks to you, O Queen of the Decanters! Bois des Iles, yummy.
I like that one, too, although I have not worn it in quite a while, and I used to wear it all the time.
I feel like this has been showing up a lot on my radar lately for some reason. Sounds worth trying at least, but I don’t even bust out my Amour that often, so not sure I need another one like this.
Has March (Rice Steam Accord Queen) fallen for this one yet? I’m wondering if anyone’s tried that CBIHP Boiled Rice yet for layering…
I don’t know if March has tried it…don’t think I’ve seen anything on PP about it (?)
R, it’s at Luckyscent already, if that helps!
It sure is, and I just received my very own sample in the mail today, along with some of the other Ego Factos! Guess what I will be doing this weekend, lol?
Oh good, let me know what you think!
Oh, man — I really wanna try this. I’ve been looking for a powdery floral lately, plus it’s a wood pudding and close to skank. 🙂
Sounds perfect then! Let me know what you think when you try it.
I wonder: How does it stack up to Etat Libre d’Orange’s Putain des Palaces? They have similar notes — kinda woodsy musk gourmand with rice.
I don’t remember that one as being rice-y … more like powdery rose violet over skank? But it’s been awhile since I tried it.
That just struck me as hilarious, for some reason, R.
Only among this group would “powdery rose violet over skank” sound like a perfectly normal description of anything… and more or less a positive description too.
LOL…so very true! It does sound strange. And I ought not to use skank anyway, to many people that’s a pejorative term.
Aw, c’mon. Everyone loves some good skank. J/K.
Hard to come up with a better word, though. Musk? Funk?
nooooo…..not funk…..funk is found at the bottom of old gym bags….blech ….
Thanks for the review, Robin. I love KenzoAmour, and would love to try this one, too…though the name (as others have mentioned) is a bit campy. Not sure I’d tell anyone what I’m wearing!
I’m really curious about these Ego Facto fragrances, as they seem to be done by some great perfumers. Happy to see Luckyscent has them…I may have to get some samples!!!
I *knew* I’d just seen them somewhere recently! And passed ’em up because of the silly name. Yet another prime target for the Kevin method.
Seems to me I saw them described when they 1st came out as a kind of poor man’s Frederic Malle…but they don’t turn out to be such a bargain with the exchange rate.
I still treasure a bottle ofTan Giudicelli Annam, is it similar? Rice pudding and ginger blossom. I have a bowl of ginger blossoms (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedychium_coronarium) on my kitchen table and they captured the scent well.
I just bought a bottle of Guerlain ‘Terracotta Eau Sous le Vent’ Hydrating Tan-Enhancing Body Mist” (TESLVHTEBM for short) that smells exactly like the Gardenia Thunbergia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gardenia_thunbergia) that bloomed for the first time in my garden last month.
Annam was a great scent. Mine is all gone now. Going on memory, that one had a stronger floral signature than this one, and the musk was paler/cleaner.
*swoon* Orange blossom? Heliotrope? Skank? Wood pudding… Oh, be still my beating heart.. I believe I’ve just drifted into full on perfume lust mode. I loved Amour though it reminded me a great deal of something I already owned but can’t recall now. Hypnotic Poison maybe? I can’t recall at the moment. But this sounds delicious in all the right ways and decant worthy at the very least. 🙂
Never hurts to try!
I love Kenzo Amour – I tend to wear it when I can’t think of anything else to wear or I just feel like I need to be comforted all day. I’ve also been known to spray it on my pillow and spritz it lightly on my blouses while ironing them – they smell fantastic.
Oh, and it goes without saying that I’d love to sniff this someday and see how it measures up.
Although, at the rate I’m going, I may die of old age before I work my way through the samples that I already have.
🙂 We have to get like Daisy and keep rushing over to the samples cabinet every chance!
hey!! It’s “exercise” so it’s healthy!! :-p
Ack, me too…I’ll never, ever try everything I have.
Plus, it’s really hard to make myself sample after I get something fantastic that’s new – why sample something that I might not like when I can just splash on my DelRae Debut (that just arrived today!) or 31 Rue Cambon or Fleur d’Oranger 27 or any of the other dozen scents that I adore?
Has there ever been a more cutesy and gimmicky name in all of Perfumedom’s history? The notes sound divine though.
Oh, that’s throwing down the gauntlet! There must be something more cutesy/gimmicky. But my mind is blank at the moment.
lol – I don’t know if it’s any more gimmicky than the entire Etat Libre d’Orange line; more cutesy, maybe.
Smell Bent? they’re pretty gimmicky too.
But you know, it’s nice that sometimes they don’t all take themselves so seriously.
Okay – I take back most gimmicky, but I’m sticking with most cutesy.
That’s true, and Etat Libre d’Orange does NOT do cutesy.
okay, we’ll let you have cutesy……ELd’O can be ” sleaz-tastic” .
More cutesy: Tiptoeing Around The Chambers Of The Moon Or Whatever The Name Is.
More gimmicky: ehhh, Cumming?
Oh yes! Forgot about the Chambers of the Moon one…
Well that’s pretty cute – Poopoo peedo is still cutesier.
I like most of Domonique Ropion’s fragrances, so this one is a must try! It sounds so pretty. My other fav pudding is the Montale Powder Flowers…
I don’t think I’ve tried that Montale…
The scent sounds fantastic, but the ad? The name? The bottle? Ugh. . . . I just don’t know that I could get past all that “cute.”
Oh, it’s all very tongue in cheek (might be clearer if you go look at their website) — I like it!
Wood pudding. Sigh. Maybe my favorite comfort scent, can’t get too much of that! I will definitely seek this one out, thanks for the review!
Curious to hear if you like it March!
Eau de Poo? Lovely as it sounds, I will probably try it and never be able to own up to its name!
That works.
I think the name’s unfortunate … but I’m going to have to smell it, because it sounds like I might love it.
Also, here’s Marilyn singing the “Poo poo bee doo” song AKA “I Wanna Be Loved By You” in Some Like It Hot, on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQIvhotZSUw
I think if anyone asked me what I was wearing, I’d switch the name to “boop boob bee doo” to avoid the fecal association. My DH would get a kick out of this.
Thanks for the link!
I just tried all 5 of the Ego Factos yesterday and didn’t like any of them. They all smelled like generic commercial synthetic swill on me… I guess I’m not the target customer!
Oh, too bad! I liked several of them.
Sounds like a delightful gourmand, which I am always in the market for during approaching winter months. I am well known at work for my affinity of fragrance. People will deliberately seek me out, come close and deeply inhale, then ask what I am wearing on that day…somehow I can’t picture myself saying, “it’s Poopoo Pidoo” LMAO!!! I know of no other perfumistas at my work and I can just picture the blank stares should I announce a name like that LOL.
I smelled By Kilian’s Love…Don’t Be Shy yesterday and adored that, it’s a lovely gourmand…but oh the price!!!! *sighs*
The BKs are very spendy, it’s a shame!
The ad is kind of kitschy, which appeals to my inner child. Reminds me of the Dynah Mite doll from the early 1970’s.
I don’t know that one!
I was hoping, given another of your reviews of something or other which you identified as being identical to a cereal your son loves, that you would catch the synonymous/identical relationship between poopoopidoo and another cereal. I’m not exactly sure which one it is though, not having eaten it in decades: either fruit loops or trix! IDENTICAL is the word!
I can only vouch for the fruit loops, not having smelled Trix lately — the Ego Facto does not remind me of fruit loops.