10 thoughts on “Love At Chapter One: Perfumes For Valentine’s Day 2013

  1. This was fun to read, thanks. I recently reread The Age of Innocence and those choices are perfect; glad to see Star Wars thrown into the mix 🙂

  2. excellent one indeed, how about L'Air du Desert Marocain for Gróf Almássy (at least this is what the Hungarian in me would suggest…

  3. Chanel's Egoïste, Pour Monsieur & Antaeus are among the best in men's perfumes… and would also smell great on a woman…

  4. Hi, I'm new here… and I logged on to tell kal that I completely agree!

    I used to wear Antaeus and especially Kouros in my late teens in the 80s. When Egoiste came out, I bought a bottle for my boyfriend's birthday just so I could use it myself. 15 years later I bought another bottle of Kouros on a whim, and only then did it dawn on me that it may not have been the most obvious choice for a 16-year-old.

    These days I'm a bit more conventional and use Kouros mostly on smelling strips, as page markers. Love the drydown on books! And I do in fact wear Pour Monsieur from time to time 😉

    1. Mickimicki, thanks very much indeed for stopping by.

      I should imagine Kouros must be very interesting on a woman. And as for scented bookmarks… I thought I was the only one who did that… 🙂

    2. My pleasure entirely, I really enjoy your blog!

      Kouros though… it's hard to pull off now that I'm a grown-up. Especially the first hour or so! Some years ago I popped out for some shopping shortly after spraying me with it, and in the store I thought people were looking at me as if I'd stepped into something… and I wasn't even sure it wasn't only in my head! So it seems I don't have the stones for that anymore! While as a "rebellious" teenager who probably smelled of weed, people were staring anyway so I wouldn't even have noticed, much less cared!

      However, 1 or 2 hours into Kouros, I think it does become wearable for a woman, if she has the nerve to get through the opening chapters. I'm going to give it a try when the spirit moves me.
      Much easier though to let some Kouros blow my mind a little every time I open my calendar/notebook 😉

      This bookmarker thing? I'm surprised more people aren't doing it! And anyway, whatever became of perfumed letters?
      And what makes me think that you are really good at matching the perfume to the book? Oh, it's the original post of course 😉

    3. Hi again Mickimicki. Maybe I should try to persuade my wife to wear Kouros. She likes it on me sometimes, but I doubt she'll spray any on herself…

      Perhaps I should do a post about objects used as bookmarks. High on my list would be blotters (of course) and airplane boarding pass stubs 🙂

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