Comments on: Kerou-Whacked: Part 2

By: Nathan Branch

Nathan Branch — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 17:15:39 +0000

I think that’s the perfect encapsulation of Louise’s reaction to Guerlain — mirrored vanity trays. So not her style.
Once she sniffed at the Chanel, I couldn’t get her to think seriously of any other fragrance.

By: Marin

Marin — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 17:01:32 +0000

What I Know about Guerlain: an extremely short story by Marin
There is a common thread in all the Guerlain I’ve smelled and I don’t like it. I don’t dislike it, per se, but it’s classic in a boring way and conjures up battered boxes of Coty Spun Powder and mirrored vanity trays.
Stick by your Chanel, Louise. Redheads need more vavoom than Guerlain wants to give us.

By: Nathan Branch

Nathan Branch — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 00:42:35 +0000

Tell me about it. It was shocking, really — the steep price cuts, the diminished crowds. The higher end luxury brands are playing a game of chicken with the consumer, daring customers to pay full-price, but I’m not so sure it’s working in their favor.

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 00:27:10 +0000

…rang them up and gave me my total, which was the price of one pair, not two
You have the Luck of the Gods, my friend.
Also, I gotta say the image you paint of the Palazzo and Caesar’s is teh creepy. Real life “Dawn of the Dead” stuff that is almost hard to swallow as many times as I’ve been in those places when they’ve been choked with people.

By: Nathan Branch

Nathan Branch — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 18:12:12 +0000

Thanks, I thought the photos turned out fairly well for being on-the-fly and trying to hurry so that I wasn’t in anybody’s way.
Funny about your Tower Records deal. I wanted to be effusive with the sales clerk, but then I didn’t want to draw too much attention to the sale in case he changed his mind half-way through.

By: Tara

Tara — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 16:38:53 +0000

Lovely photos! And great score on the jeans. I had the same experience at the Tower Records store about a year or so ago when they were going out of business. The SA rang up the total, decided it was too high, and then removed a few items. Hey, thanks!

By: Nathan Branch

Nathan Branch — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 03:36:46 +0000

Yes, surreal would be the appropriate word! I just wish we’d had more time to spend in Guerlain. There were a lot of bottles that went cruelly unsniffed.

By: ScentScelf

ScentScelf — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 20:35:10 +0000

I am of course fixated on the Guerlain display. What, a suitably gigantor bottle of Eau 68? And, wait…what’s that…an empty bottle of Cruel Gardenia?? That is just wrong…
Slightly surreal, but fun, this shopping, eh?

By: Nathan Branch

Nathan Branch — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 17:34:14 +0000

LOL!
I should have noted that the sales assistant was responding tongue-in-cheek, since my question was asked in a humorous fashion.

By: carmencanada

carmencanada — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 17:09:07 +0000

That Louboutin SA may have been lying! I own several pairs of Louboutins in various styles and heights, and not a single one hurts me — unless I’m at a gallery opening and standing around for hours, but that’s the 10 cm heels, not the way the shoe is made. So there. (Stamps feet. Punches hole through floor.)