Among contemporary fragrances, the selection in woods has grown tremendously, and a woman who wants to eschew "sugar and spice and everything nice" has plenty of choice.
— Victoria Frolova of Bois de Jasmin, in How exotic woods are getting a feminine makeover at the Financial Times.
Sure, there is plenty of choice–as long as you avoid the department stores and the mainstream lines. All the examples cited in this article, with the exception of Samsara (which, I understand, has been reformulated due to the near unavailability of Mysore sandalwood) are niche scents.
Well yes…note that the publication is “How to spend it” 🙂
I never actually have any trouble figuring out how to spend it. My problem is figuring out how to get it. They say money talks–why does mine mostly say goodbye?
LOL…yeah, that is the magazine I’m waiting for: how to get it.
If they ever publish that magazine, I predict it will be very popular and achieve a wide circulation. 😉
” The Gillerain Company was on the seventh floor, behind swinging double glass doors bound in platinum….. There were perfumes in tall thin bottles that looked like a breath would blow them over and perfumes in little pastel phials tied with ducky satin bows, like the little girls in a dancing class. The cream of the crop … was labelled Gillerain Regal, the Champagne of Perfumes. It was definitely the stuff to get. One drop of that in the hollow of your throat and the matched pink pearls started falling on you like summer rain.”
Raymond Chandler, from the opening of “The Lady In the Lake” (A classic private detective novel).
In other words, if you got the Gillerain Regal, guys would just shower you with expensive gifts (or so, Mr. Marlowe, cynically interprets the Gillerain advertising line). I have yet to find a real life perfume that has the effect of Gillerain Regal. On the other hand, I have also so far avoided being caught up in tawdry murder schemes.
I love it when writers of fiction incorporate references to perfume (real or fictional) or scents into the story.
Hmmm…Gillerain=Guerlain?
LOL- Mine says goodbye, farewell, so long, gotta run and it’s been nice knowing you.