Discuss!!!
From fashionista.com
Dec 05, 2007 @ 10:37am
We recently witnessed a friend buy a bottle of Axe body spray. We were a little surprised at his choice, since hes not in high school or junior high.
He didnt really get it when after spraying a bit of his Tsunami, we said, This smells like a sixteen year-old boy! Clearly, no one has ever told him that there is such a thing as smelling your age. (We now have Terre dHermes next to his name on our Christmas list.)
This reminded us of our own junior high days, when everybody wore Heaven from the Gap, and those who didnt, doused themselves in Calgon body sprays from Bells Pharmacy downtown. But after high school, college and life, one typically leaves those scents behind and moves on to more subtle, sophisticated varieties. In short, you grow out of scents to fragrances.
To this day, the smell of anything fruity, vanilla-y or Herbal Essences-y makes us think of first period Geometry, and the smell of Chanel No. 5 immediately brings to mind our grandmother.
So what about you? Are you a college age girl wearing Frédéric Malles Carnal Flower (perhaps the most intoxicating, elegant aroma we have ever smelled)? Or an older woman, perhaps even mother, harboring Tommy Girl on your dresser?
From fashionista.com
Dec 05, 2007 @ 10:37am
He didnt really get it when after spraying a bit of his Tsunami, we said, This smells like a sixteen year-old boy! Clearly, no one has ever told him that there is such a thing as smelling your age. (We now have Terre dHermes next to his name on our Christmas list.)
This reminded us of our own junior high days, when everybody wore Heaven from the Gap, and those who didnt, doused themselves in Calgon body sprays from Bells Pharmacy downtown. But after high school, college and life, one typically leaves those scents behind and moves on to more subtle, sophisticated varieties. In short, you grow out of scents to fragrances.
To this day, the smell of anything fruity, vanilla-y or Herbal Essences-y makes us think of first period Geometry, and the smell of Chanel No. 5 immediately brings to mind our grandmother.
So what about you? Are you a college age girl wearing Frédéric Malles Carnal Flower (perhaps the most intoxicating, elegant aroma we have ever smelled)? Or an older woman, perhaps even mother, harboring Tommy Girl on your dresser?
I agree that Chanel No.5 smell like a middle aged/elderly woman with excellent taste in perfume. I smelled a woman wearing it a couple of months ago and remembered how much I like it, and went home and found an unopened Chanel No.5 body cream among my deceased grandmother's things (she left behind an oddly high number of No.5 soap bars etc.) and when I put some on I felt like I smelled like a little old lady. I like it when my mother wears it, though, but it's not for me -yet. 
) Then I smelled Laura on a friend and started wearing it... then I had a bf act like he really hated the way I smelled one day when I overloaded on Gaultier Classique (I used the soap, wore the body lotion and the perfume... in retrospect I guess I overdid it just a tad 
) after that I stopped wearing perfume altogether, except from on a select few occations. I guess I should start wearing it daily again, but for one thing I'm scared of picking a scent that people around me are going to hate, and secondly, I haven't really found a new scent that I want to make 'mine' (I have a ton of perfume, literally. But none of them really feel like 'me', if that makes sense)
