cheesy for ever
After almost 3 hours behind the TV yesterday evening, waiting for the end of the Manchurian Candidate, I am brain washed today. According to wiki the movie had a budget of 80 Mio $ and runs 129 min. I’ll bet that the overall budget of the ads we had to see for about 30 min in total was close to the movie budget altogether.
Beautiful supernatural women with a baby skin asked me whether I have not always dreamed of a nice decent tan without sun (NO, honey, haven’t. I will stay cheesy for ever), others invite me to discover the Coke side of life (well, I guess this side is pretty dark), Axe reduces women to helpless perfume victims, and in the middle we discover how devastating wrinkles are, following a fast-motion development of Ms beautiful in her 30-ies to a pale wrinkly pumpkin in her 50-ies. Well, maybe the ice cream that is all natural would help her to fill up those collagen holes…
Be it and back to the helpless perfume victim. In a sense, Axe (=Lynx) is very honest about things. Some of us dream this dream of fragrances as a pheromone bomb. Well,…forget it. I would rather recommend (if at all) looking at fragrances as aphrodisiac. But wait, maybe I am wrong and my skin is just too cheesy to lead to an Axe effect. hmmm…I never was a perfume victim so far. How about you?
Stay tuned for more highlights this week, including a First,-Never-Happened-Before! on this blog.
Greetings from a perfumer in search of perfume victims….
(Picture: Sun after a rainy night, shining through crystal clean leaves in Zurich)
July 9th, 2007 at 12:40 pm
Heh, Andy, every time I see a bottle of Axe I start snickering. Never have I been a victim of Axe…but I am far more likely to be repelled by cologne on a man (because usually it smells awful) than I am to become a ‘victim.’
July 9th, 2007 at 4:00 pm
Hmm. YR Nature Millenaire pour Homme on my boyfriend has quite a strong effect on me.
I once wore Parfum Sacre on a first date with a guy (what was I thinking? it`s too sexy for a first date) and watched the guy being slayed by PS. I wasn`t very happy, because I didn`t want to get into too much physical contact on first date (which went along quite well) and now I had this man snuggling to my throat and sniffing like posessed. He came to his senses, fortunately and we dated for a while, but he wasn`t The One. I think PS undermined the tempo of relationship development from the first date. If I ever have a first date again, I`m wearing La Chasse.
July 9th, 2007 at 4:31 pm
Dear Benvenuta
Now that’s a nice story. Your date must have had quite some control over himself nevertheless. you raise the question of what to wear for the first date! There, I must admit, I am out of practise since centuries it seems. I guess I would wear something very clean, like Penhaligon’s fougère, english fern.
Dear Arhianrad
hehehe…I guess Mr right will be right with or without whatever perfume! But for sure the right fragrance might help! But meeting the right guy (or girl) is a difficult and serious business, worth a blog by itself. hmmm…running away looking for dating blogs….talking marketing: THAT’s the place to be as perfumery!
July 9th, 2007 at 4:48 pm
hehe, Andy, yes, you’re right–my Mr. Right is perfume-phobic (sad, but true). I envy anyone who, like Benvenuta, can say that they’ve seen a man slayed by their fragrance. It’s never happened to me :(
As for the right fragrance…I shared an elevator once with a young attorney wearing Terre d’Hermes. It’s the closest I’ve ever come to being a ‘victim.’ And Clean Man Smell is VERY alluring, very alluring indeed, and I heartily concur on wearing Penhaligon’s English Fern.
Usually, the young men around me wear Acqua di Gio (which I *hate*–truly, there aren’t many scents out there I dislike more than Acqua di Gio). You’re right about marketing on dating websites, though, I can’t count how many times I’ve seen the ‘What cologne do women find most sexy?’ thread (or its variants) on Basenotes.
July 10th, 2007 at 1:18 am
Hehe, that’s why the teenage boys at my daughter’s highschool use Axe so liberally. (At least my daughter is immune to that smell, thanks to my more expensive taste, which, of course, she is picking up) I wish it worked like that, huh? I might like to try that out in the vicinity of a man that interests me!?
Anyway, I do remember back in the day a friend of mine used to use Aramis (and I know I’m ‘dating’ myself here), which I used to be absolutely crazy about. Whenever he wore it, I couldn’t get my nose off of his neck.
As for myself having this effect on someone, sadly no. (Other than having received compliments for smelling good).
By the way, those leaves are so pretty.
July 10th, 2007 at 11:52 am
I was the victim of no perfume, but body odor.
In the heavy throes of late pregnancy in late August, on a crowded train [ with the HEAT on, for God’s sake !], I found myself unreasonably aroused by the potent odor emmitted by a clean, sweaty man- who turned out to be the tiniest, most timid, Puerto Rican gentleman….
The poor thing.
He would either have been immensely proud, or terribly chagrined, if he ever knew.
I, on the other hand, felt completely at the mercy of my hormones.
I have been able to blame Mitsouko for some interesting reactions from men, and Un Santal de Mysore, Bois d’Iris for erotic reactions from women.
Isn’t life wonderful ?
Sigh.
July 10th, 2007 at 4:34 pm
Oh Chayaruchama, that sounds wonderful! I imagine the gentleman, innocent and confused;-) Life is great and always full of surprises. Take good care on you and do not take heated trains in summer…kisses to you.
July 10th, 2007 at 4:48 pm
Lol, Chaya, I know what you’re talking about. Those pregnancy hormones are pretty powerful. Too funny that the object of your desire looked so unassuming.
July 16th, 2007 at 7:16 am
I hope I never have to find out why Axe is so popular among young men - anyway, I am too old now for their target audience! Poor things, they are probably driving away as many girls as they are attracting!
When I was much younger I would follow men down the street if they were wearing Aramis, no matter what other qualities they had. Now my taste in men’s fragrance has changed a lot, but I still remember how much that affected me. Now it’s L’Air and Lonestar Memories I want my men to wear, Andy! :-)
July 16th, 2007 at 7:23 am
Dear Flora, watch out when you ever come to Switzerland. I’d guess the local density of L’air wearing men (and women) is quite high around Zurich….
Fragrant greetings from summer land (finally!)