07.17.07
Chanel #5
I hate Chanel #5.
Yack all you want about its timelessness, its sparkling aldehydes complementing its heavy jasmine, its perfect representation of everything classy. I think it stinks.
Specifically, I think it stinks of a child’s inflatable vinyl pool toy that someone spilled cheap fake flowery perfume on and a little nail polish remover. These aldehydes do not “sparkle” as advertised, they smell like what they are, chemicals. The actual real flowery essences are suffocated in the haze of industrial waste that is your sillage. This perfume does not say “Marilyn Monroe”, or “New York”, or “high class” to me; it shouts the post-war slogan, “Better Living Through Chemistry!”
What’s worse, I can’t escape it. Knockoff scents appear in every toiletry known to (wo)mankind, usually the ones that are already unwholesomely Read the rest of this entry »