In this country, a lot of people wear perfume for everyone else. People wear my perfume for themselves first. Everyone else comes second.
— Hear, hear. Christopher Brosius of CB I Hate Perfume, quoted in Sniffing Out New Scents In Brooklyn's Williamsburg at the Wall Street Journal, found via CaFleureBon.
Thank you for posting this article. I’ve known about this line but have never taken the time to check it out. Will do so when ordering some samples. Although, I have to say the last bit in the article about him starting his own clothing line strikes me odd – maybe because of his comment about not doing as many custom perfumes because these may be a “vanity” purchase.
I suppose it isn’t contradictory unless he’s going to do custom clothing?
True. Now that I think more about what I read and your comment. It just seemed like a jump when I read it but thinking on it now there are so many designers who cross disciplines. I wonder how he will employ (if at all) his perfume background – how it may translate if that is a consideration for his clothing line. I think his insistence of keeping the perfumes a “niche” brand would carry over to a clothing line? Maybe that was where I was going with that last comment? Ah, who knows with my mind.
The only place I have found for samples of this line is TPC. They offer decants of both the water perfumes and the absolutes, as well as multi packs (choose 5, 10, or 15. Lucky Scent carries this line, but no samples. The CB I Hate Perfume website does not offer any samples, but they do have 2 ml travel sizes of the absolutes, so you don’t have to commit to a FB. No small sizes in the water perfume, though.
Oh, I DO wish he’d put out travel sizes of the water perfumes. I’d snatch up a bunch in a heartbeat. I just really can’t do the absolutes.
The 2 ml sizes are essentially samples, really. They’re just not cheap samples. I join you in wishing for samples of the water perfumes, but trying them from small vials wouldn’t work all that way — they really need to be sprayed.
I thought it was a great article and I’m a big fan of the line… hope it’s successful. I have to pull out my sample of Wild Pansy and decide if this is the week I finally spring for a bottle like I’ve been wanting to.
I’m a big fan too…
Hey, CB, I ONLY wear perfume for myself. What’s “this country, that country” got to do with it?
I think he was trying to say that people in the US tend to wear fragrance that will not bother anyone. Instead of wearing fragrance that they alone appreciate. For instance, I purchased a bottle of his burning leaves. Me and the husband love it, but not many people want to smell like burnt leaves. I feel that his fragrances are true to the name, and description in most cases. I will probably end up with half of his line by this time next year. I love it that much!
I don’t know how it is in other countries, so I cannot comment upon that. I do know, however, in the US there is a long tradition of marketing perfume by claiming it will make you attractive to the opposite sex, so maybe that is what he was referring to. My husband wears fragrance every day primarily because I buy it for him and like to smell it on him. If it were not for me, he would probably never have taken it up. It is not that he dislikes fragrance, it just was not anything he though much about before he met me.
BTW, do you prefer the absolutes or the water perfumes? I have not tried this line, but am thinking about some samples from TPC. Does the water perfume stay wet a long time on the skin or is that not a problem?
ha, i was at his gallery in williamsburg when he was being interviewed by bbc. i was there for an hour and half or so, and the conversation lead to “american” fragrance mentality of needing to be fresh and smelling nice and presentable to others….