http://www.nathanbranch.com/2008/12/guerlain-rose-barbare-and-chan.html Good Taste is a Trillion Dollar Industry Wed, 08 Feb 2012 01:57:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.nathanbranch.com/2008/12/guerlain-rose-barbare-and-chan.html#comment-1477 Nathan Branch Mon, 22 Dec 2008 00:02:35 +0000 http://blog.nathanbranch.com/?p=1871#comment-1477 I said I didn't remember half! Jicky and Habit Rouge are two that I remembered. And who says that the smell of awful plastic seats in new cars doesn't linger? :) I'll grant you that Lutens is terribly conceited, and has a marketing machine that's like a bulldozer, but when I like one his works, I tend to <i>seriously</i> like it to the point of comparing other fragrances I smell against it. But Sheldrake was the official perfumer for Lutens until 2005, so if you highly regard Sheldrake, then you might highly regard the Lutens catalog without having to highly regard Lutens. . . ? Actually, <a href="http://boisdejasmin.typepad.com/_/2006/07/chypre_rouge_by.html" rel="nofollow">last I heard</a>, Lutens is reportedly still working with Sheldrake, even though Sheldrake signed a contract with Chanel in 2005 (Peredepierre.com reports getting a <a href="http://www.peredepierre.com/2008/10/serge-lutens-comment.html" rel="nofollow">pissy message</a> from the Lutens camp about Sheldrake being a "mere technician" instead of the Lutens perfumer, but who knows what that's about), but I do think it's pretty great that one of Sheldrake's fragrances for Chanel is a kinder, gentler version of his own Borneo 1834. I said I didn’t remember half! Jicky and Habit Rouge are two that I remembered. And who says that the smell of awful plastic seats in new cars doesn’t linger?
I’ll grant you that Lutens is terribly conceited, and has a marketing machine that’s like a bulldozer, but when I like one his works, I tend to seriously like it to the point of comparing other fragrances I smell against it.
But Sheldrake was the official perfumer for Lutens until 2005, so if you highly regard Sheldrake, then you might highly regard the Lutens catalog without having to highly regard Lutens. . . ?
Actually, last I heard, Lutens is reportedly still working with Sheldrake, even though Sheldrake signed a contract with Chanel in 2005 (Peredepierre.com reports getting a pissy message from the Lutens camp about Sheldrake being a “mere technician” instead of the Lutens perfumer, but who knows what that’s about), but I do think it’s pretty great that one of Sheldrake’s fragrances for Chanel is a kinder, gentler version of his own Borneo 1834.

]]> http://www.nathanbranch.com/2008/12/guerlain-rose-barbare-and-chan.html#comment-1476 nadia Sun, 21 Dec 2008 21:32:47 +0000 http://blog.nathanbranch.com/?p=1871#comment-1476 Can't remember Habit rouge or Jicky? Hello! As for Hedione, a chemical first used to enhance volatile citrus headnotes, it does not smell much by itself, never mind being "warm" or "lingering"! More like awful plastic seats in new cars. Other than that, this was an interesting article, I highly regard Sheldrake and of course Polge, but not Lutens as much as you do at all. Clever marketing, rather conceited and more pretense than esthetics or harmony, I think. Simplistic in a nice packaging in a nice shop with a price tag to go with it. Can’t remember Habit rouge or Jicky? Hello!
As for Hedione, a chemical first used to enhance volatile citrus headnotes, it does not smell much by itself, never mind being “warm” or “lingering”! More like awful plastic seats in new cars.
Other than that, this was an interesting article, I highly regard Sheldrake and of course Polge, but not Lutens as much as you do at all. Clever marketing, rather conceited and more pretense than esthetics or harmony, I think. Simplistic in a nice packaging in a nice shop with a price tag to go with it.

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