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Posted by Dain, Saturday, March 29, 2008 8:46 PM (Eastern)
It's not exactly Hendrix, but it's far catchier.
If it true, as they say, that perfume is an art, then the classical giants (Coty, Guerlain, Chanel, Caron, et al.) have claimed the largest share of the finite creative space, leaving niche contemporaries to fight over the crumbs. Now, I'm not entirely convinced of this... perfume is a consumable, and the perfume industry is a business first and foremost, no matter how queer and metaphoric. Nevertheless, almost everyone agrees that Thierry Mugler Angel is a contemporary original, an abstract gourmand, space-age chocolate confectionery. So original, in fact, that everyone saw fit to copy it, thus ushering in an age of sweet.
Blv Notte is one such copycat. It's is clearly inspired by Angel, wrapping its dark and velvety chocolate heart within layers of crystalline, iris-laced musk, but has lost Angel's divisive edginess: on me, it smells exactly like cat piss, but on the right woman it is nothing short of a marvel. Blv Notte is more of a crowd pleaser, a commercial take on the abstract gourmand, and no less than three of my friends have sniffed and bought.
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