Notes About The Poem
Jean Paul Gaultier’s Classique. Launched in 1993, this fragrance comes in a torso-shaped bottle
resembling a corseted female figure image.

The Perfume Bottle

The lustrous perfume bottle
avec neck spritzer and bottom caudal
With hexing brio it holds her captive
Pure rapture is sexually attractive
A woman’s torso a glass statuette 
dressed in a golden chic corset
An old hippy scarf suspends on the wall
Her   ‘Eau De Joy’  is  kitschy after all
Shimmies into mid-calf western boots
She rifles through sequined body suits
Last touches of an aromatic scent
she deems the fragrance extravagant 
Lurid lemon zest smacks of old school
Blithely vivacious leads them a drool
Juicy sweet notes from cleavage to chin
A whirlwind of hazy mist he’s in
Wild at heart with beats that throttle
A burning desire from a perfume bottle
Copyright © | Year Posted 2025


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Date: 9/22/2025 4:43:00 AM
Anaya, a fun read inspired by that unusual bottle. You capture the sense of it very well. Interesting the effort put into a bottle. You bring back a lot of memories with this in a very pleasant manner. Smiles!!
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I Am Anaya
Date: 10/2/2025 2:40:00 PM
Glad I could do it, memories from a perfume is always a given. Make more! xhugs
Date: 9/20/2025 5:51:00 AM
The right perfume can really rev things up, as you suggest. The wrong one - ugh! A real turnoff. Hippie scarves rock! Nice take on the theme
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I Am Anaya
Date: 9/20/2025 5:42:00 PM
A knockoff CK perfume at the time, it was unisex! Citrusy I found fascinating as much as the concept and used the memory for poetic purposes. They do!
Date: 9/20/2025 5:34:00 AM
Provocative. The poem struts with sensual flair, its vivid imagery and rhythmic pulse evoking a bold, aromatic seduction.
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I Am Anaya
Date: 9/20/2025 5:47:00 PM
Cheap perfume at it's finest! Tacky fun, things a young woman may have fun with. Ty for your review DD~
Date: 9/18/2025 7:17:00 PM
Hey, I love love the language.
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I Am Anaya
Date: 9/21/2025 12:46:00 PM
Still looking for one.....
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Paige Hind
Date: 9/19/2025 6:00:00 PM
Cool, do it :D
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I Am Anaya
Date: 9/18/2025 9:53:00 PM
:) I may attach a country song~
Date: 9/18/2025 12:35:00 PM
I enjoyed reading your lovely "The perfume bottle" write. Great Picture... I did not save any of my old bottles. Wish I had. I loved putting the empty bottles in my clothes. "Good Luck" Have a fun day writing away............
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I Am Anaya
Date: 9/18/2025 1:27:00 PM
I was rifling through my scarf wraps to hang over the curtains and one still had fragrance, I must have missed in the wash....that 'ol scent still gave me pleasant thoughts, it was a delight. Thank you for reading Paula! You too xhugs
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