014 Poeme

014 PE takes on one of Lancome's most divisive 90s releases, Poeme, a dense floral built around tuberose, ylang-ylang and datura over a honeyed vanilla-amber base. The dupe keeps the same architecture the original is known for: a fruity-green opening of peach and black currant giving way almost immediately to a thick white-floral heart, before settling into a warm, sweet vanilla-tonka drydown. Community consensus on the original has always split between lovers of its beast-mode sillage and those who find it cloying, and this version amplifies that character rather than softening it, so it wears loud and lasts. Where it diverges from the real Poeme is in refinement: the natural-feeling orange blossom and jasmine facets read a touch more synthetic here, and the drydown collapses into a flatter, generic amber-musk instead of the original's more layered woody-honeyed finish. For anyone chasing that specific rich, motherly floral without hunting down a discontinued bottle, 014 PE gets close enough to scratch the itch, though it trades the original's warmth-through-depth for warmth-through-volume.