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Posted by Dain, Monday, December 18, 2006 9:53 PM (Eastern)
What people want, but will not tell you that they want, in the realm of cosmetics, is perfume. But how to pick? Perfume is such an individual thing, no? Here are my top ten:
- old-fashioned: Caron Parfum Sacre, at first, aggressively aldehydic rose wrapped in Church incense, but dries down into the most exquisite Old World soap (e.g. Claus Porto), left lingering on the skin
- young at heart: Balenciaga Cristobal, fun flirty fruity and slightly intoxicated (figs drizzled in honey, with plenty of freesia and pineapple)
- chic: CHANEL Allure, crisp and sophisticated, like an expensive white shirt, a perfect floral bouquet, in iciest winter
- innocent: L'Occitane Eau de Miel, meadowflowers, sunshine, nectar, bees...
- sexy: Bond No. 9 Chinatown, because tuberose is the sexiest flower of all (I am quite in earnest)
- spice: Serge Lutens Ambre Sultan, materially exact (accurate representation of heady sweet incense from Morocco) and conceptually abstract (the tree (cedar), resin (hard), light and heat (is not amber crystallized sunlight?))
- smart: Guerlain Mitsouko, the most intelligent of perfumes, reminds me of libraries, cigar smoke, and scotch, or, as Luca Turin calls it, "a Baroque string quartet" of peaches, rum, and spice
- skin/musk scent: Narciso Rodriguez for Her, Egyptian musk polished to gleaming perfection
- citrus: Annick Goutal Eau d'Hadrien: a citrus grove in Greece, pungent herbs, and crisp white wine Let me see... have I hit every olfactory category? Not...
- the queen of the flowers: Lancôme Mille et Une Roses, night-blooming rose
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December 20, 2006 1:13 AM,
I haven't smelled all of these but...I heartily agree with Eau D'Hadrien, Coco Mademoiselle and Michael Kors.
I haven't smelled Mitsouko in ages but it was nicely complex...distinguished.
Allure didn't "show" on me...I couldn't smell it on myself. Odd, since I have no doubt it's strong enough.
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