The "Holiday" issue of Details magazine stinks.
I mean that quite literally. It reeks. It is pungent with odor. This is because the magazine is stuffed with ads for cologne or perfume or parfum or whatever you call the stuff desperate guys swab on their bodies in the hopes of getting lucky.
— Columnist Peter Carlson of the Washington Post in Pungent Details: All It Needs Is an Atomizer. He'd better stay away from Allure.
At Coco of Bruntsfield in Edinburgh, Rebecca Knights-Kerswell’s bold and dramatic confections are fragrance-led. “One of the girls who works with me has a background in perfumery, so, for example, we made a jasmine chocolate that tastes as wonderful as it smells,” she says.
— From Food detective: The rich list in the UK Times Online (go to page 2, and look for the "Handmade chocolates" section).
Robin, here's a link to a NYT story on the “democratization of luxury goods”. I'm posting it not so much because of its relevance here, but more because of the ongoing discussion on this blog of that topic as it relates to fragrance, although the article is more focused on handbags and other accessories.
http://tinyurl.com/2ze9j7
Great article, thanks! I keep meaning to read her book, which sounds interesting and apparently has a whole chapter on perfume.
LOL — promise not to boo you off the stage, but I just hate them! They're too misleading, and my office stinks of 1000 fragrances already. I rip them out and throw them away as soon as I get a magazine 🙂
Hmmph. I made myself read that entire Washington Post piece, but the gratuitous second sentence told me all I need to know about the writer's attitude (or, more precisely, his attitude problem): “cologne or perfume or parfum or whatever you call the stuff desperate guys swab on their bodies in the hopes of getting lucky.”
Regardless of what one thinks of sample cards, I'm pretty much willing to bet money that I smell better than Mr. Carlson any day.
Joe – I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that since you hang out here, you probably smell better than *most* guys! 🙂
I see nothing desperate about smelling nice, that writer said nothing to endear himself to me.
Joe, the article cracked me up, although his main point seemed to be to pick on Details. Which I've never read, nor seen, and know absolutely nothing about!
But also, think this is a very common perception -> that the only reason people wear scent is to attract potential partners.
And quite sure you smell better than he does!