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65 degrees out here aujourd'hui donc j'attaque le soleil
Vintage?
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65 degrees out here aujourd'hui donc j'attaque le soleil
What's it like? I vaguely remember Luca Turin saying something about it being dated but I can't find the line right now.
Thanks, much appreciated!I always have trouble describing this one but I’ll give it a shot.
So to be clear, I have the black cap and orange front - which I believe is the most recent formulation- which does not feel dated to me. It has shades of Cartier’s declaration (heavily imo) and Chanel’s pour Monsieur (a bit less so but there). Probably the best way I can put the most recent formulation of Eau d’Hermes is that if Dior’s Eau Sauvage (most recent formulation) had a leather/anamalic tint and bulked up the spicy mid notes like cardamom and cumin. That said I have not given any of the older formulations a try which I believe the comments by Luca Turin were referring to.
arrived in grey cold damp Toronto
Timothy Han On the Road. I've come to like this fragrance a lot and am considering a bottle
Neandertal's Dark: A nice woody scent that mixes cedar, pine, and unexpectedly, black rubber. There are some hints of grassy vetiver, ginger, caraway, seaweed (salty hints), incense, amber, leather, pink pepper, and patchouli all mixed in here. It's herbaceous, forest-y, leathery, and weirdly tar-like. Sort of feels like a woody, pine-needle flanker on Bulgari's Black.
A nice scent, but I can't get over the $250 price tag. On the one hand, I feel like, at some point, a good collection should have a limited enough number of bottles where price (mostly) doesn't matter. On the other hand, I also think uber-expensive perfumes are mostly BS. I suppose if you have uber-rare or expensive natural ingredients, it's justifiable, but the most sensible thing I've read on expensive perfumes is this paragraph from an old post at Luca Turin's blog.
"I was in el expensivo Zurich recently and a journalist asked me what I thought was a reasonable price for a perfume. Mindful of the old days, when I could buy two years’ supply of Brut (complete with nitro musks) for what would today be $30, and mentally adjusting for inflation, I replied that the price of a dinner for two with a decent bottle of wine in a decent restaurant was about the upper limit for me, so let’s say $120 or so for 100 ml of EdP or a half ounce of proper extrait. To my mind everything way above that, e.g. Lutens’ Section d’Or and a swelling host of others, are simply sad jokes perpetrated on sad sacks. And if anybody tells you that the exquisite raw materials upped the price, just laugh. Niche perfumery stands a good chance of disappearing up its own rear end if it merely becomes yet another golden opportunity to rip off the customer. To be sure, natural materials are going up in price because there is more demand. But bear in mind that formula cost in all but a handful of fragrances is less than 10% of sales price. Don’t give these people your cash: get a decant and smell that $50/kg woody amber first."