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Jogu: Um, care to name the scent Mystery Man?
I just went to Barneys and walked out with two scents that I realized were love/hate kind of scents.
M/Mink by Byredo and Un Fleur de Cassie by Editions de Parfum/Frederic Malle. I'd gone in with no expectation of what I'd buy, if anything. The only plan I had was to check out Oud Immortel (from which I smelled no Oud, btw) and hopefully to find a unisex rose inflected with woods and cat pee.
M/Mink smells exactly like asian stick inks - the ones you rub into a stone to turn into a paste. Stick ink, tallow and temple incense. I had very strong, and not necessarily positive associations, with each other those things separately. Over time, they'd withered in my memory. Somehow putting those three things together made a fragrance that really startled me.
Un Fleur de Cassie is also a strange one if you've never smelled the cassie flower. I think it's a stunner.
That said, I think you have to test both these fragrances first - I'm sure they're divisive ones...as with most niche fragrances, these are "unisex." (In any case, you should just wear what you want, in my opinion. who is to say that only women can wear rose?)
MBD
bee-tee-dubs: evidently, there was no such thing as a gendered fragrance until the 20th century, when it was created by modernizing perfume houses (and their equivalent of perfume marketers.)
I just went to Barneys and walked out with two scents that I realized were love/hate kind of scents.
M/Mink by Byredo and Un Fleur de Cassie by Editions de Parfum/Frederic Malle. I'd gone in with no expectation of what I'd buy, if anything. The only plan I had was to check out Oud Immortel (from which I smelled no Oud, btw) and hopefully to find a unisex rose inflected with woods and cat pee.
M/Mink smells exactly like asian stick inks - the ones you rub into a stone to turn into a paste. Stick ink, tallow and temple incense. I had very strong, and not necessarily positive associations, with each other those things separately. Over time, they'd withered in my memory. Somehow putting those three things together made a fragrance that really startled me.
Un Fleur de Cassie is also a strange one if you've never smelled the cassie flower. I think it's a stunner.
That said, I think you have to test both these fragrances first - I'm sure they're divisive ones...as with most niche fragrances, these are "unisex." (In any case, you should just wear what you want, in my opinion. who is to say that only women can wear rose?)
MBD
bee-tee-dubs: evidently, there was no such thing as a gendered fragrance until the 20th century, when it was created by modernizing perfume houses (and their equivalent of perfume marketers.)
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