Nadine is today’s subject. She’s from Paris but is currently living in Berlin, and she’s had some trouble finding a new perfume. Actually, she’d like to find two: one for warm weather and one for cold, and…

…ideally the former would be written in the mirror language of the latter, or vice versa. Two perfumes which invoke the “sensual world” of Ulysses’ Molly Bloom, “the taste of seedcake from his wet mouth”… Something perhaps a little complicated but not troubling, more feminine than bordering on androgynous, a big secret one can share, coquette, touching and definitely more of a perfumed assault rather than breezy olfactory haiku.

Her price limit is around $200, and she has pretty good access to perfume stores. Here is what we know about Nadine:

She’s in her mid-20s and finishing a Master’s degree in Comparative Literature.

She has dark blond hair and green eyes.

She’s moody, complicated, melancholic and very sentimental, but also (she hopes) silly, funny and sometimes seductive and charming.

For music and clothes, Nadine says she is “drawn toward the mutant hybrids and the bastards”…

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