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Posted by Dain, Wednesday, March 19, 2008 11:39 AM (Eastern)
"Dain, you watch Amadeus SO much."
Though fumeheads mourn the diminishing quality of contemporary feminine perfumes, it seems to me the state of masculines are even more dire. Either they smell "bracingly" of detergent or of stale armpits, always applied in whorish quantity, perfumes that are essentially based on the theory that men are especially dirty creatures incapable of any elegance, so erase or embrace it. Yatagan shines counter to all such sweeping generalizations, as refined as a set of tweeds, as savory as a herbal liqueur. Its focus is artemisia, commonly known as wormwood and the basis of absinthe's distinctive flavor, so there is a pungent, powdery narcotic feel to Yatagan that's impossible to ignore. As a matter of fact, Caron boldly accentuates with equally rough and unlettered notes: the bitterest citrus petitgrain, the harsher side of geranium and lavender, pine needles, earthy patchouli and vetiver, animalic castoreum (a beaver's anal glands), and of course, leather, which adds the right note of restraint on this testosterone-laden mix. And anyway, I've never sniffed Knize Ten, perhaps the ideal candidate for a masculine leather.
As far as the general discussion goes, I actually think Shalimar is smashing as a masculine (I tested it on my brother, it's eerily good)—really overblown on a woman, quite cuntish. But I'll admit when it comes gender-reversal I'm not quite advanced enough to wear Yatagan without feeling a little out of place.
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March 23, 2008 9:12 PM,
Believe it or not, I've never seen Amadeus. I remember when it came out...it was well-received. But then I haven't seen Titanic either.
What weirds me out a bit is I saw Finding Forrester, and the same actor had an almost identical role, as the perpetual second banana. Finding Forrester was almost bizarrely good in a non-blockbuster way.
March 24, 2008 12:37 PM,
Amadeus is superb in almost every respect. It's visually stunning, it's got a good plot, and it's well acted. It's not very accurate, but it's very good.
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