I cannot imagine why a woman would want to smell like her soul has been scorched, unless she is a dentist’s assistant in white scrubs and clogs trying to convey the eradication of microscopic life forms.
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By then, if you sprayed this thing on just before going out, your taxi has arrived, while your fragrance already smells like you’re on the way home, and your mascara is all over the place. Enjoy.
— Luca Turin, on Miu Miu and Marc Jacobs Decadence, respectively. Catch up on his column at Style Arabia here.
Memo to LT: You’ve mastered snark. Move on.
I agree. There’s something nasty about the tone of his writing that makes me uncomfortable
I enjoy a bit of snark when it’s deserved…but perhaps I should not have chosen 2 so very snarky blurbs. I’m afraid both made me laugh
I guess the snark worked for me today. It made me laugh after working on one document for 6 hours ????
I said before that the Miu Miu comment makes me want to blind buy it. As far as Decadence, he is right! and that is why I bought it.
Right on lillyjo !!
I purchased a tester bottle sans cap, and love the scent! The cap didn’t work for me IRL, I like just the green glass bottle!
Agree about the cap. It is very cumbersome.
Ya. Good for you!
Ha!
“It smells like someone was tasked with putting together a perfume using deodorants as raw materials.” Damn, buuuurn.
I enjoy his snark, even when he’s eviscerating one of my favorites, as he did to Feve Delicieuse (“dismal banality”).
Love him! And I almost spewed hot tea!
It’s like with Mr.Bean sketches and movies for me:Many moons ago they were HILARIOUS…now:Not so much anymore.The only “advice” I REALLY got from THE GUIDE was TRUST YOUR NOSE.
I agree with dottie – I so enjoy LT’s use of language that I’ll take any amount of nark, even if it’s directed against my favourites. I so appreciate the intelligence and the wit that I will forgive the grumps, and the odd review where he gets so carried away by a clever idea that he forgets to review the fragrance at hand …
I love the snark. Even if Luca and I do violently disagree on the subject of Eau de Givenchy.
I’m on your side of that argument. Love EdG, even in its current state.
I think those comments are hysterical! It reminds me of the one line zingers that Maggie Smith gets to say on Downton Abbey. Just enough bite, and not one word out of place. One of my favorites is something like “I have plenty of friends I don’t like.”
Dorothy Parker was good too! The perfect barbed witticism is a jewel in it’s own right
If you’re in the mood for wearing a trashy perfume, then why not wear it?
I’m being sincere!
If Decadence is your idea of trashy, and if u want, for whatever reason, to smell like a tart, then spritz some on if u so desire, and pay everyone else no mind and play the role of harlot to the hilt!!
When I want to smell like a tart, I spray on Rush by Gucci. It’s inexpensive and over-the-top!
I blind-bought Canoe Goods Skive because of LT’s 5-star review in this series, and I love it! (Scroll down to the photo with the Moschino teddy bear bottle to find it.)
He was also very positive about Clinique Beyond Rose, which I’d like to try.