This is the masculine counterpart to the last shopping challenge poll. Your new challenge, should you accept it: you are off to Macy’s. You have $75, and you are to buy one bottle of perfume as a gift for a man you hardly know. He is in his mid-20s, and all you know about him is that he wears trendy clothing.
What will you buy…
But I assure you, it’s not cologne. I hate cologne. Nor is it truly perfume. It’s more like an eau de cleanliness. Refined, nuanced... It’s like stepping out of the bath. Like putting on a freshly ironed shirt, or slipping into a bed with clean sheets…
— Serge Lutens talks to Osmoz about his upcoming fragrance, L'Eau Serge Lutens.
Model Leticia Birkheuer for Christian Dior's Pure Poison. Jean-Baptiste Mondino, 2004.
New at escentual (UK): Chopard Cascade.
Deal at lordandtaylor: many Annick Goutal fragrances marked down 40%.
New at miomia: Jovoy Paris line.
New at sephora: Nanette by Nanette Lepore.
More limited edition collector fragrance bottles, with the usual disclaimers: in most of these cases, the juice is unchanged, just the bottle is “special” (or not, as the case may be), and some of these may not be available in the US.
From Jean Paul Gaultier, Le Mâle in “The iconic Le Male Gaultier bottle, with original scent, stars in a comic book-inspired story as Super Le Male…”