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l there was a time but i don t remember it much i was a little all over the place in 1990 when the fragrance came out even so somehow it brings back memories it s instantly recognizable but i don t remember where the memories come from a few years ago i met a guy who d stolen it from his ex he wore it as i think fragrances should be worn in abundance it smelled amazing and looked great too if that s possible some fragrances are so distinct and such a part of the culture that they conjure some kind of hazy but emphatic image in your mind the first time i remember smelling it on him he was wearing a navy and white striped boat neck t shirt long sleeved it seemed the perfect compliment to the scent a navy and white striped shirt seems very femme and parisian to me i know this is how sailors dressed but i m not a sailor i m just attracted to them the blue and white striped shirt is acquired as a style the same way your ex s fragrance was as a way of assuming or inching toward a persona you wish to assert your right to egoiste is for me a cousin to caron s third man it s a pretty boy scent the guy who wears this theoretically and theatrically crosses his legs like they do in europe as i ve heard southerners say as if they wish to believe this femme identifying posture was imported from other ostensibly less masculine lands both remind me of long locked tadzio in the film adaptation of death in venice he wears a striped blue and white shirt so maybe that s where i m getting all this from also because of him possibly i see this as a blonde haired scent which might be saying aryan dunno in any case if i m being honest i wear this and feel fair skinned and blonde and the center of some distant admirer s gaze because tadzio s allure is however unwittingly remorseless even cruel i see egoiste as having a practically brutal elegance it s the scent of not having to worry as much about things as the people who wish they were you egoiste is a blonde wood scent so there s that too this really buttery sandalwood and tobacco with rose and it s best worn by people who aren t blonde at all as a way of screwing with your head and flipping the finger to traditional concepts of beauty says me it s scent in the best possible way fantasy enacted through drag and or impersonation posted by brian at 9 24 2014 10 38 00 am 1 comment labels caron third man chanel egoiste monday september 15 2014 i wore this amouage interlude man i was wearing this last night while reading another inspector maigret novel by georges simenon i m wearing it again today doing a side by side comparison to chantecaille s kalimantan both were done by pierre negrin and they re very much alike i realized i don t remember how people just love kalimantan but i ve never warmed to it not as passionately as others seem to whereas i knew the moment i sprayed interlude man that i d be walking away with it in the mystery novels of simenon penguin is re releasing all of them or so they say one a month to the bitter end something like 50 all told maigret is always smelling the perfume people usher in or leave in their wakes just last night he smelled it on a middle class french woman whose husband had been murdered several days ago in another one of these books a danish woman locked in her room by her one eyed brother was constantly broadcasting her scent throughout the house smelled and remarked upon by the inspector each time he entered the front door today the mother of a criminal herself no polly pure sobbed dramatically into her perfumed hankie did simenon enjoy perfume i ve searched out biographical information on him but compared to his novels the story of his life well no one is stabbed he seems to have enjoyed perfume because it makes an appearance in nearly ever maigret mystery employed like facial features and dress to convey character and background many a mystery novel excludes the mention of perfume altogether i picture simenon in a cafe reading about a burglary in the paper grafting its specifics onto a story he remembers about a brother and sister who are actually man and wife disguised as siblings when an overstuffed woman walks in radiating tuberose and carnation all seem essential components of the mood i do love maigret but i don t really get kalimantan yet it s similar to interlude in many ways they have the same basic structure maybe i guess other detective novels are similar to maigret criminals or their authors can only come up with just so many plot lines just so many ways to kill a widow in a darkened alleyway a limited number of methods and settings for strangulation one little ineffable something or other makes the difference interlude has the woody amber foundation of kalimantan for instance but substitutes juniper and incense for cinnamon making all the difference in the world to me same writer different stories there s also the complexity of translation the other night i realized i d purchased two maigret novels which are actually one and the same the book was published under two different titles i can get rid of one i thought then i checked the first pages against each other and realized that two different translators had made the book two different reads probably would i like one just a little and love the other like negrin s two stories later the following night i wore interlude to a party it s been a little less humid and i kept smelling it on myself is this too much or just enough i wondered at one point outside on the patio a woman i was talking to asked me suddenly what was i wearing i m so unused to people commenting on my perfume that i immediately assumed she meant my clothes though she could see them as well as i could and they were probably largely self explanatory shirt jeans shoes under stuff i almost started describing my attire then realized she must mean the interlude this was the first comment let alone favorable one i ve received on a fragrance in longer than i can recall posted by brian at 9 15 2014 05 14 00 pm no comments thursday september 11 2014 scene from paper moon evening in paris when addie s mother dies moses pray a former suitor slash john shows up at the funeral the funeral is decidedly middle of nowhere prairie in all directions and other than pray and discounting the droning preacher only maybe two people have attended two elderly women who ve made addie their charge moses happens to be passing through and stops to pay his respects i know your backside is still warm he whispers to the coffin but the women seize his resemblance to addie same jawline and while they can t talk him into parenting the nine year old they manage to con him into driving her to her aunt s house a few states away so the movie is playing on the whole it happened one night schema of opposites stuck in a small situation together rubbing each other the wrong way referencing dust bowl iconography the photographs of dorothea lange among other things the grumpy adult child faces and curve ball verbal outlandishness of the little rascals the history of road to nowhere movies gangster films moses cheats widows out of their deceased husbands money selling them never ordered bibles he s embossed their names on after tracking their misfortunes in the obituaries your husband ordered this for you but i can see you re in a bad place so i ll just give you a refund unless you want something to hold onto that memorializes him in death by contradicting the thoughtlessness that characterized him in life etc addie turns out to be an even better con than moses jacking one sale up from his modest 7 bucks to 24 so he delays the aunt situation indefinitely and the two stay in various flops that dot the map between their bereavement destinations at one point overnight in one of these motel rooms after moses has gone to bed addie gets up and quietly locks herself in the bathroom with a cigar box full of mementos from her mother in the box are pearls postcards and what looks to me like a half ounce bottle of evening in paris with its classic hourglass meets urn silhouette the very best thing about this scene aside from the idea of such a tomboy taking an interest in such a feminine perfume aside from all the standard implications of a scent reviving memory conjuring the dead is the fact that addie posing in front of the mirror as her mom douses herself in the stuff the way a man would the cheapest splash cologne slapping it on her neck her cheeks and finally for good measure wielding the bottle like a salt shaker on either side of her face from this the movie cuts to the next morning a tight shot of the front seat of the car addie and moses spend most of their time in moses keeps sniffing the air wrinkling his nose like they ve passed an animal carcass on the side of the road he finally figures out it s addie who seems pleased to be noticed like her mother was for her perfume to have magnetized attention this way but she can t command it for long moses opens the window over the dash airing out the cab and addie s face flatlines back into its frustrated childishness posted by brian at 9 11 2014 10 16 00 am no comments wednesday august 27 2014 i wore this dior addict original or why i seem to have stopped writing reviews for a long time now let s throw a number out and say five months i ve spent more time on customer review sites than on perfume blogs proper until recently i didn t really ask myself why i must have just concluded in some hazy region of my hamster wheel mind buried chin deep in everyday routine that i d lost interest in perfume why else wouldn t i want to read in depth analysis let alone write it i guess it gradually occurred to me that a loss of interest wasn t borne out by the amount of time i spend on say fragrantica a site i visit at least ten times a day often impulsively it gradually occurred to me in some equally hazy way that i don t want to write or read about perfume the same way anymore the blog review has come to feel essentially reductive to me these are the notes this is the perfumer here s a brief evocative list of things this scent evokes or recalls or references here is how long it lasts here is something the perfumer told to me at a cocktail party i was invited to as i stood at the red hot center of the fragrance industry here is the history whose history i appreciate the notes the anecdotal information can be interesting knowing that you see a woman standing under a tree eating an apple in a flowing white gauzy dress when you smell this perfume is maybe over sharing it s at least beside the point the problem for me is that the monolith this template has become in aggregate across scores of blogs obstructs in some ways and minimizes in others what perfume actually does for or to me it makes fantasy feel rote there is a catalog element to a great deal of perfume writing now here is this and this is this that and the other thing moving right along here is another how can i expect anyone to see the point in making imaginative truly inspired fragrances when so much of us spend so much time and space making what we say we love sound so phoned in i think i just want to step off the hamster wheel for a while maybe that s it i don t expect to get to the bottom of anything i want to stop pretending that you should read me because i can or because it s possible i used to stand at my grandmother s vanity to smell her perfumes i ve written this at least twenty times throughout the lifespan of this blog it s often the only thing that matters to me i ve gone back to that memory my entire adult life the sun coming through the windows the colors of her pale rug the gilt mirrored tray the perfumes sat on the light blue velvet chaise off to the side with an afghan my grandmother made draped across it she made all of us afghans like it my sister got one in the same colors i was a boy so mine was red white and blue it was difficult for me to pretend to sit on that blue chaise in my own room back at home with that red white and blue afghan i used to sneak into my sister s room to sit with hers in my memories i chart one forbidden moment after another like that i sneak into an endless series of rooms rooting around where i m not meant to be for a long time i had a recurring dream the house was always different but it always had a secret room i discovered during the course of the dream the room was enormous stockpiled with deep dark glamorous to me family secrets it occurs to me writing this that part of the reason i store my fragrances the way i do deeply layered in no particular order stacks upon stacks in a bureau is because it makes looking for anything involve finding many things i d forgotten about it recreates that sense of discovery and secrecy this entire system of memories exists in the perfumed air surrounding my grandmother s vanity i m always finding dior addict pushed back to the rear i might have three bottles to make sure that virtually anywhere i dig i m bound to come across it i don t know why i don t wear it more often or why i want to keep being reminded it s there in this particular way posted by brian at 8 27 2014 10 27 00 am 16 comments labels dior dior addict vanilla friday august 22 2014 i wore this chanel cristalle edp and vero profumo mito cristalle is nice and i prefer the edp to the edt which is nice too for the all of five minutes it lasts on me cristalle in that big brick bottle chanel makes my cristalle edp comes in this brick but hits you like a feather i keep trying to like feathers but i prefer bricks so the cristalle feels like a beautiful tease and puts me in an irritable mood mito voile d extrait is a brick not a blunt thing not bombastic but it has force it s got a confidence and an assertiveness about it people compare it to greens like cristalle and maybe chanel no 19 scherrer givenchy iii references can be useful they make you feel you can control the narrative happening to you i don t compare mito to anything but other vero profumo fragrances each of which in each concentration is a different state of mind i find it difficult to put them into words i can find all kinds of words but i don t want to restrict the fragrances i don t want to break them down or compartmentalize them they happen to me in a place outside of vocabulary they make words feel feeble at a time when almost everything does back flips to assure you it can be summarized succinctly i ve heard that vero kern the perfumer behind mito was inspired by an italian garden at villa d este in tivoli smelling mito i don t need her to describe that garden in words she s brought it alive in my mind cristalle is this kind of thing beauty as an ethereal concept something that wafts across your consciousness as a veil sheer really chanel takes pains at all times to reassure you that you are in control of what you see and experience mito takes you over the way extreme beauty or experience does there s no safety from it there s no remove no conceptual 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