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| THE MASCULINE VS FEMININE DEBATE |
2010WOMAN |
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| MESSAGE BY 2010WOMAN |
| I find some of Paul and Craig's comments interesting. And I do respect their opinions but it's just an opinion. There are a thousand different ways to see the world rather than just black and white. Putting perfumes into two categories of Men and Women is a pretty recent development in the history of fragrance. And in many parts of the world this division does not exist. As with anything in life fragrance is a matter of personal taste. It's nice that you want women to smell like flowers but that is just not my style. I think smelling like a sweet flower is kinda gross and obnoxious. I am a very unique person and I appreciate fragrances that are different from all the mainstream, trendy, and heavily advertised fragrances today. I would never want to smell like all those milions of women out there who purchase like Romance or Michael, almost like mind numbed robots, succumbing to all the advertising propaganda. I think Cabochard and Azuree are haunting, unique, and beautiful. I leave you with a quote from Serge Lutens, a master French make-up artist and a perfume maker:
"This separation of perfumes for men and for women is a socio-cultural product which flourished after WWI. In the nineteenth century perfumes were perfumes. If a man liked to perfume himself with rose or lavender, he used rose or lavender. And it was very elegant. If he was elegant. If he was not elegant in himself, applying rose water would not make him any more elegant. The same for a woman. If the woman is elegant, she perfumes herself with elegance, with precision, with personality. But if she has no elegance, then perfuming herself will not render her so. Perfume is the reflection of what you are yourself. No matter what perfume you apply - even rose - it will be an expression of your personality.
For me, perfumery is timeless. It's like in Morocco, where there are perfumes, or essences, and they are worn by women or by men, without segregation. It is a fundamental error to separate men and women." |
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