“You Or Someone Like You.” The fragrance came into being when Etienne de Swardt, founder of Etat Libre d’Orange read the novel and called Chandler Burr to ask if he could make a perfume based on the book he had so loved. He wanted to base the perfume on the setting, Los Angles,...
Having said that, an ideal casual fragrance is something that behaves more like a deodorant than a perfume. It is pleasing to the nose but not intriguing or mysterious. It is meant to put others at ease, not to befuddle them as a complex formal perfume does. It is both easy on the no...
My first ‘proper’ perfume I bought (as i’m not sure britney spears midnight fantasty counts- tho even today, I can so easily distiniguish someone who is wearing this perfume) was Miss Dior Cherie. I remember seeing one of the notes listed as ‘popcorn’ and my sweet tooth self was...
No, the perfume presumably has to sell on some sort of aspirational level. Either young women wish they could be Paris Hilton, or they assume that someone with her lifestyle must have excellent taste in perfume plus the resources to produce something fabulous. Paris Hilton may well have...