on a low budget whim i tested and liked kiehl's pour homme. a very nice woodsy-green musk oil. i think what appealed to me was going into the winter season and i love the scent of wood.
one day recently, i braved union square, which is like traversing the levels of retail hell. navigating parking, people, finding a restroom, getting to maiden lane, and through the tourist hordes back to the garage. it was a wicked indulgence, but it's been years since i've spent a nice little grip on a fragrance. i don't like most of the synthetic scents that have a 10 year life-cycle from department store > discount outlet > marshall's. i remember in the 80s when people went bananas for white diamonds (for me it fell into the realm of georgio of beverly hills, i.e., a stinky overblown flower bomb). these days you can usually find white diamonds in walgreen's next to anything by coty. most commerical scents smell the same to me; variations on the same two themes and notes - floral for women and musk for men and very, very strong. these scents invoke suburban princesses, reality tv hoochies in big shades with orange-hued skin, and (my favorite type of clown) the moussed pimp who wears his shades inside. these creatures wander the earth; their scents greeting you before they do.
i do like tom ford's private blend scents; they're very earthy, green, and deep - the kind of scents i prefer that remind me of insense or arabian angels flying down to earth. the line has names like black orchid, japon noir, bois rouge, black violet and tuscan wood. so divine, but also uber expensive - $165.00 for 50 ml (dayum). diptyque i can (more or less) afford. i mean, really the cost of a diptyque perfume is equivalent to my utility bills combined, but once in a while even the most modest among us needs to just indulge in their own beauty.
what makes diptyque so amazing is that their scents remain for hours. spray in on yourself or in a room and those little ions of olafactory bliss continue to linger on you or in the air. what i love about l'ombre dans l'eau is even though it has black currant and rose notes to it there's also a blast of green (my favorite) underlying the floral. it's just a gorgeous combination. i wonder if the garden of eden smelled like this. or perhaps the countess ellen olenska from the age of innocence.
diptyque doesn't really advertise; not in the glossy ad and sample tabs such as you find in vogue. it is a hidden treasure; a coven of secret scent agents on the boulevard saint germain.
joyeux noel!
mslisa
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