Common Scents
February 17th 2010 05:36
Dashing about the city as I do on my way to work, to the gym, back to work, and then in a rush to get home, I have realized that there are a few common scents. A lot of which I can’t actually place, but it goes to show that just like physical fashion, there are also perfume trends.
This is easy enough to believe when you take a quick stroll through the perfume section of any major department store. Fashionable people bring out what are supposed to be fashionable scents, although sadly many of them are lacking. I even encountered a range of Sex and the City scents at a pharmacy recently which I have to say were on less than appealing side of fragrance options. But it just goes to show that like celebrity clothing endorsements, (well, for the most part), celebrity fragrances can spark a trend.
And that leads me to what I noticed today. I know that fragrance, like clothing, is very much about personal taste, and like fashion, my goodness there are some horrific scents out there. I was bombarded with more than one as I got ready to leave the gym on my lunch break today. And no, I do not mean the icky body odour scent that can often accompany a locker room ,I mean women who were drowning themselves in the worst perfumes ever as they got ready to head back to work. But how do you know if something smells awful on you? Just like some people detest the smell of coffee and others adore it, how do you actually know if what you think smells great in a bottle works once you have it on?
The ladies at my gym today had it all wrong and when someone’s perfume is a worse smell than other scents that can be found in a change room, you know there are some serious fragrance issues at play. Is it okay to tell someone the perfume they are wearing doesn’t actually work on them? (Although having a stranger once tell me my perfume “worked really well with [my] PH” was also incredibly disturbing and not advisable) I’d want to know. I’d want to know if I smelled hideous. But then, if the lady in the change room today thought the perfume she was showering in was fabulous, then maybe there are people who also think she ends up smelling fabulous in it.
All I know is this whole business can be somewhat on the nose!
This is easy enough to believe when you take a quick stroll through the perfume section of any major department store. Fashionable people bring out what are supposed to be fashionable scents, although sadly many of them are lacking. I even encountered a range of Sex and the City scents at a pharmacy recently which I have to say were on less than appealing side of fragrance options. But it just goes to show that like celebrity clothing endorsements, (well, for the most part), celebrity fragrances can spark a trend.
And that leads me to what I noticed today. I know that fragrance, like clothing, is very much about personal taste, and like fashion, my goodness there are some horrific scents out there. I was bombarded with more than one as I got ready to leave the gym on my lunch break today. And no, I do not mean the icky body odour scent that can often accompany a locker room ,I mean women who were drowning themselves in the worst perfumes ever as they got ready to head back to work. But how do you know if something smells awful on you? Just like some people detest the smell of coffee and others adore it, how do you actually know if what you think smells great in a bottle works once you have it on?
The ladies at my gym today had it all wrong and when someone’s perfume is a worse smell than other scents that can be found in a change room, you know there are some serious fragrance issues at play. Is it okay to tell someone the perfume they are wearing doesn’t actually work on them? (Although having a stranger once tell me my perfume “worked really well with [my] PH” was also incredibly disturbing and not advisable) I’d want to know. I’d want to know if I smelled hideous. But then, if the lady in the change room today thought the perfume she was showering in was fabulous, then maybe there are people who also think she ends up smelling fabulous in it.
All I know is this whole business can be somewhat on the nose!
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The thing is that when the creators know that the perfume they're making is a one-season-only one, they just try to come up with unique combinations of scents, rather than taking the time to create a fragrance that actually works. Frankly I'd rather wear Impulse than a celebrity perfume!