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Tommy Girl for the nose

Posted by Robin on 9 March 2014 4 Comments

Bach for the ears, Picasso for the eyes – Tommy Girl for the nose? Can scent actually be considered an art form?

— Witnesses, including Chandler Burr and Trudi Loren, weigh in. Read more at Perfume as an art form at The Financial Times.

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  1. Ayala says:
    9 March 2014 at 7:11 pm

    I still fail to smell the masterpiece in Tommy Girl. A very generic powdery watery floral, typical of the 90’s, and not a trendsetter then either.
    Can you enlighten me? What am I missing out?

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    • Robin says:
      9 March 2014 at 8:04 pm

      Beats me. It’s uber-pleasant — really well done if that’s what you’re after, but I’ve never smelled what made Luca Turin give it 5 stars either. He does usually like Calice Becker’s fragrances though. He gave Bvlgari’s earlier version of what he calls a “floral tea” (Eau Parfumee au The Vert) 4 stars, which I’d agree with, but I’d probably give Tommy Girl 3 stars.

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    • pigoletto says:
      10 March 2014 at 8:03 am

      No idea. Admittedly I came to smell it about a good 10 years or so after all the hype, but to me it smelled very early 00’s – that fresh lightly fruity floral tea, well done, but nothing that would have made me double take even then. But Turin did really go crazy over some stuff that went right over my head, like whatever that EL was in the rainbow teardrop bottle.

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      • Robin says:
        10 March 2014 at 8:50 am

        Beyond Paradise, I think.

        One of my first unsniffed mistakes was something he loved, by Jacomo if I remember correctly, but don’t remember the actual scent except that I hated it. We have different tastes. But he also has been paying attention to perfume much longer than I have…presumably when he smelled TG, it was “new”, now it smells like something that’s been done & done over a thousand times.

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