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Posted by Dain, Tuesday, March 18, 2008 11:36 AM (Eastern)
I've been making the case that, unlike the sociable florals, leather is somehow "bitch" material. They are interesting, moody, and difficult, but excessively elegant—qualities unknown to our current simplification of feminine ideals. If you consider the whip crack fetishism of Oud Cuir d'Arabie or the high-maintenance drama of Diorling, bitch is not an inaccurate generalization. But when it comes to Kelly Calèche, inspired by the phrase "making soles in angel leather", I must now eat my words.
The Vietnamese gem, The Scent of a Green Papaya
Kelly Calèche is a perfume of impeccable but subdued good taste, like a fine watercolor. From its bright citrus top to the its buttery smooth leather drydown, the composition glides gracefully without a hair out of place. If you are expecting the heavyhanded artistry of Serge Lutens in which all the shifting gears are open to inspection, you will be disappointed by the ready-made and pleasant and easy-to-wear Kelly Calèche. Somewhat to my surprise, as my skin tends to amplify any sweetness within a composition, the powdery rose-mimosa sweetness is not particularly pronounced, instead I get a transparent accord of fine leather touched by demure iris and something nuttily, crisply herbal like vetiver, almost like cologne water in how subtly it embraces the skin, and yet within the abstracted vision of Jean-Claude Ellena there is something indefinably unsettled, like listening to atonal music, which seems to give it a modern flair.
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March 22, 2008 10:20 PM,
I never saw that movie! It looks sumptuous. You can feel the humidity.
March 23, 2008 12:22 PM,
It's good! It's sort of... seething with things, and it's all the more potent because it's an Asian movie, and they're not so "advanced" sexually, and they aren't allowed to be as overt.
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