/fa/ - Fashion

>>10752854
I gotta go to a family lunch at a french bistro bb bois but I'll post more later.

>>10752915
1 Million (Paco Rabanne) 2 Stars

"As befits someone who claims to be the reincarnation of an Egyptian high priest and to possess visionary powers, Paco Rabanne's fragrances appear to be leading indicators of investment opportunities. Calandre (radiator grille) was released at a time when you could still buy a '67 Ferrari Berlinetta for a song, Métal heralded the rise in demand for and the price of ores, and now, three months before the turmoil on Wall Street, comes a masculine fragrance shaped like a gold ingot. I shall be watching future releases closely. A weird fragrance, 1 Million is a marriage of two distinct perfumery ideas that have never before been squished together: the tired apple tendency of Cool Water and the musky, Levantine hair-gel feel of Caron's No.3. Trouble is, the second idea quickly vanishes, leaving the first all by itself."

>>10752942
(2/2)
"Some things strive to be classics; others simply are. Spend and evening with Black and you will know that its place is with Bandit, Tabac Blond, and Cabochard among the great emancipated fragrances of all time." 5 Stars

>>10752892

[a shitton, buddy, just get his book and find out]
obvious one, and my personal #1 of all time:

Black (Bulgari) [in italics he calls it "hot rubber"]

"Some of the best fragrances in history are built on precarious equilibria between two contrasting ingredients: the vanilla-vetiver accord of Habanita, the citrus-amber of Shalimar. This widens their emotional keyboard and, when the job is properly poised, allows them to smell different form moment to moment and from mood to mood, as if they always had something new and apt to say. In other words, they smell interesting, as opposed to merely beautiful. A friend of mine used to say that one particular type of short-grain Carnaroli rice he used for risotto seemed to understand his intentions and to posses native intelligence. I can now extend this insight to perfume: Black is buzzing with brains. It was composed by one of the greatest talents in the business, Annick Ménardo of Firmenich. Binary accords having been exhausted, what she did was increase the number of dimensions by one. Black sets out boldly into space on three axes: a big, solid, sweet amber note, a muted fifties Je Reviens floral note (benzylsalicylate) as green as a banker's desk lamp; and finally a bitter-powdery, fresh rubber accord such as one encounters in specialist shops or while repairing a bicycle tire puncture. These three tunes hit you in perfect counter-point when Black is first put on. The remarkable thing about Black's structure is the absence of top notes or drydown. Ménardo has contrived to make the harmony independent of perfume time, but very sensitive to small variations in one's perception. At different times, Black will strike you variously as a battle hymn for Amazons, emerald green plush fit for Napoleon's box at the Opéra, or just plain sweet and smiling. It also has the combination of great bones and good skin characteristic of old-fashioned perfumery, while being entirely novel and modern. (1/2)

Gucci by Gucci pour Homme (Gucci)

"I can see where the inspiration for a thing like this would come from: a train platform at a railway station in a major city, afternoon rush hour, the day the clocks are set back, and it's dark when you head home (an hour's travel). No place to sit, too crowded to read, and the guy next to you has recently refreshed his aftershave."
2 Stars

Egoïste Platinum (Chanel)

"Named like a credit card for tightfisted sugar daddies, this was never likely to be a good fragrance. In fact, it is quite extraordinarily bad for Chanel and aside from a fleetingly interesting floral-leather note up top, reeks of the sad male clone it was intended for. If you check into a decent hotel, chances are a freebie on the bathroom shelf smells at least as good as this."
2 Stars

>>10752854
Fahrenheit (Dior)

"Fahrenheit should now be renamed after another temperature scale, maybe Réaumur or Rankine, because it is unrecognizable. It used to be a great citrus leather in the manner of Bel-Ami, overlaid with the gassiest, hissiest, most diffusive note of violet leaf in all of perfumery. Acetylenic esters have now been severely restricted (triple bonds smell wonderful but are chemically reactive), and what's left is a kind of Bel-Ami. Except that Bel-Ami itself has been messed with and Fahrenheit is arguably better than the modern version. Either way, nothing to celebrate" 2 Stars

For all of you who live in wintry cold as fuq cities, highly recommend getting a sample of korrigan

http://arabia.style.com/beauty/beauty-guide/spring-summer-fragrances-2014-luca-turin-reviews-lady-million-eau-my-gold-korrigan-la-tentation-de-nina-ricci/

http://www.luckyscent.com/product/31220/korrigan-by-lubin

>>10752823
samples are free, even at fucking barneys you poorfag

>>10752830
guys i can post btfo reviews of some stuff considered good on /fa/, lmk if you want

good luck never getting a respectable job with that shitstain climbing up your neck

tasteless trash

>>10752807
>implying christgau isn't better than everybody at covering most music
yeah there are better experimental music writers at wire, but that's also because he has a bias against it. lol actually not even all of it just take a look at his love for arto lindsay

anyway, I've never found a database, the book is it. his style arabia stuff is pretty good cause it satiates the need for post-09' fragrance tastemaking.

>>10752366
that's also a really nice statistic you got there you anti intellectual man child

>>10752346
you are one dense motherfucker holy shit

http://www.pfsfoundation.org/

>>10752606
>>10752658
Also, whoever the phaggot is who makes these generals, it's ridiculous to not include the most important opinion in the fragrance world

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luca_Turin

http://arabia.style.com/author/luca-turin/

Stop circle jerking so much with basenotes reviewers. Been lurking for over a year now (used to post a lot back in 2012), and I had to say something. It's like recommending music and never mentioning Robert Christgau.

>>10752658
he's the best perfume reviewer imo, made a perfume guide with his wife tania sanchez in 2009

http://www.perfumestheguide.com/Perfumes_The_A-Z_Guide_-_Luca_Turin_and_Tania_Sanchez/Home.html

>>10752527
>>10752500

Kouros:

"Twenty-seven years after its release, the structure of Kouros is still so novel, so immediately recognizable, and so impossible to imitate that it is probably a sporadic case in perfumery. It smells like the tanned skin of a guy with gomina in his hair stepping out of the shower wearing a pre-WWI British dandified fragrance: citrus, flowers musk. It has that faintly repellent clean-dirty feel of other people's bathrooms,a nd manages to smell at once scrubbed and promissory of an unmade bed. The fact that all these images are conjured up by a fragrance in itself so consummately abstract is a testimony tot he brilliance of its creator, Pierre Bouron. Such things happen not by accident but only as the work of genius." 5 Stars
- Luca Turin

>>10751850

Coromandel:

"Of the six new Chanels launched early in 2007, this is the one that most clearly has Christopher Sheldrake's handwriting all over it. He recently returned to his alma mater at Chanel after nearly two decades at Quest, during which he was chiefly occupied with composing Serge Luten's epoch-making line of fragrances. It must have been fun to see everyone, from Guerlain downward, gradually fall into step and pay him the sincerest compliment, imitation. Coromandel is, to my mind, Sheldrake's reinterpretation of Borneo 1834 done in the Chanel manner, muted, richer, less saturated, and less overtly oriental. It has enough patchouli in it to clear the air of Indian moths for a mile around, yet it manages to avoid any hippie earthiness by a trick I am sure every perfumer would like to emulate. If there were such a thing as a powdered white chocolate, it would smell like Coromandel. Wonderful." 4 Stars
- Luca Turin

>>10751850
Sycomore:

"The dream team at Chanel seems to delight in applying superior skills to existing ideas they deem worthy of perfecting: Coromandel was a reorchestration of Lutens's Borneo 1834, and of course their Eau de Cologne is a 'here's how we do it' object lesson to every perfumer since the 1750's. Sycomore is, in my view, a magisterial gloss on Bertrand Duchaufour's Timbuktu. The latter introduced an Altoids-like idea to perfumery, consisting of a minty-licorice coolness combined with a radiant crackling-wood-fire note. What Polge and Sheldrake seem to have realized is that this accord offered a solution to the age-old problem of vetiver: too little and it gets lost in composition, too much and it always smells the same. Vetiver has both an anisic aspect and a smoky one. Cleverly flank it with Timbuktu's two companions, add a big slug of sandalwood, and vetiver finds itself in worthy company at last. Together they make a strange, very natural accord that shifts from shade to shade of deepest olive at each sniff. There is a tension, a dark mystery, to Timbuktu, which Sycomore does not try to emulate: it is content with merely being the freshest, most salubrious, yet most satisfyingly rich masculine in years. If putting it on does not make you shiver with pleasure, see a doctor."
- Luca Turin

literally poor man's Brazilian blowout

>>10508943
do what other anon said,
or if you have money like me and others, get a brazilian blowout every three months until it's healthy and long enough
i tbh don't think i"ll need another one, then again i also use good hair products like r+co

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>>10453898
Also, the silver hook is too literally "maritime," so it would look awk with my outfits that have rick and poeme bohemien shirts.