My girlie secret
Apr.20, 2006, filed under Miscellany
It is a little known thing that I have a fondness for perfume.
It’s the synaesthesia, I think. I’m very picky about perfume. I’m very picky about aftershave on a man. A man whose scent is laced with shredded browns and bronzes, all ambers and cedarwood and with that rich, dusky texture like really good quality chocolate — that man has the power to make me swoon. It’s the shape of it.
Myself, I have a fondness for Guerlain’s Mitsouko, which is one of the so-called ‘dark’ perfumes, like Donna Karan’s Chaos. It matches my natural scent well, although it’s a bit heady for daytime use. It has subtle undertones of rotting carrion and wet steel, rounded off by a subtly floral concoction underpinned by a hint of Vetiver.
If I wear a perfume during the day (rarely) it has been Davidoff’s Cool Water for Woman, but I’m after something different.
I know what I want, but can I find it? No. I know what shape I want, and what smell I want. But what I’ve discovered is that perfume departments do not include fragrance notes the way wine shops include tasting notes. So one is faced with a vast array of designer fragrance bottles with no way to tell what’s inside. And, personally at least, one can only sniff about 3 or 4 fragrances before it becomes impossible to get a good idea about what one is smelling. Not only that but a scent changes on the skin, so really one should try it on the skin.
Basically what I want is something as grown-up as the Mitsouko, but with a much more mineral, metallic scent. Sharper, flatter and more subtle. Something that has an almost subconscious effect unless the person smelling it is right up close.
Any suggestions? All the ones I tried yesterday lost their top notes very quickly and became too sweet and floral, although the initial hit of the Escada I tried wasn’t desperately far off. And the new summer Cool Water (not Game, the other one) is just about there but has too much citrus in it. I don’t want fruity. I hate fruity.
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