[Aidan] Dowling, a moving-company manager in Boonton Township, N.J., laughs at how he used to play sports with his friends at that age, while his son’s crew now heads to Sephora.Max Dowling, who prefers scents with vanilla, amber and citrus, says he still wears the Jean Paul Gaultier cologne that his father used. His friends can now sniff his style.
“My friend said I smelled like his uncle. I just said, ‘Thank you,’ ” Max says.
— Read more in Why Do All These 15-Year-Old Boys Want to Smell Like the 1990s? at The Wall Street Journal. Hat tip to VanMorrisonFan!
I am more than happy to find the younger generation loving older perfumes. This keeps things in production and avoid being axed. The tantrums I’d throw if one day they discontinue things like Knowing, Youth Dew, Shalimar…
Also the 90’s feel just like a few years ago. Didn’t we just welcome 2000? How is that almost 3 decades ago!?
Seriously. The bit in the story about the boy wearing his grandfather’s scent — Terre d’Hermes!!! — made me feel OLD. Of course, I am old, but still.
Everything old becomes new again. Well, except people, unfortunately. Bummer.
🙂