Comments on: Michel Germain Sexual Fresh Pour Homme, Gres Hommage a Marlene Dietrich ~ new fragrances

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 23:25:48 +0000

Interesting on the Knize Ten, thanks! For my part, I don't think they have to necessarily create a scent she would love in order to do justice to “Hommage a Marlene Dietrich”, but they should at least do something that reflects her life in some way.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 15:04:39 +0000

from my reading of her through the bio her daughter, Maria Riva wrote, Marlene, Marlene was a life long lover of leather fragrances. She wasn't a big floral lover. Though she did have a tuberose phase though in the 30's from what I read in her daughter's bio on her mom. She mentioned of how sickeningly sweet the tuberoses were that her mom put out for a passed away loved one, I think that's why she was in this tuberose phase of hers. Funny, in the bio her daughter wrote, I don't remember any mentions of Creed and her wearing the Angelique Encens fragrance at all. I read that she wore Knize Ten since she had her tuxedoes and men's clothing that she loved to wear made by Knize Tailors. Marlene was a leather gal. Not a fruity floral gal. At least that was my impression after reading that book.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 01:24:14 +0000

Oh, completely forgot about that, thanks!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 01:04:47 +0000

There already is Angelique Encens, which was created for Marlene and worn by her for years, I believe. Going by what AE smells like, she wasn't really a girl for mandarine and apple cinnamon.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 00:28:46 +0000

Didn't JS use her picture for the scent advertising? Yes, perfect match.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 22:37:45 +0000

I'd like to second marchlions comment. Something along the lines of the notes she mentioned, that would be Marlene. Dark, sultry, smokey. Somehow the Josef Statkus notes make me think of Marlene (although I've not smelled it yet), dressed in a men's suit, sultry looking, androgynous. Even Cabochard, my original love from Gres, seems more like her than the notes posted. Sigh.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 22:29:13 +0000

The word “fresh” isn't appealing to me even in fragrance descriptions, much less in the name. “Sexual” + “fresh” together is just funny.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 22:27:57 +0000

LOL — thank you for maintaining restraint!

Gres does have some wonderful scents, but have to admit I haven't tried the latest few. Haven't even *seen* the latest few, so don't know what their US distribution is.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 21:46:13 +0000

Strangé?

I think it sounds like a half-assed attemp to do a celebrity fragrance with a dead celebrity!.

But on the other hand, grés has some good stuff ( the original cabotine is, IMHO, a little gem) and Marlene was a classy lady, at least onscreen. And I understand that naming a fragrance after her, you rather stay away from the specifics.

And now I should stop. As terrible names involving marlene's alleged sexual orientation and the word tuxedo make up weird and unmarketable fragrance names in my head!

Thank God It's Friday!!!!

Regards

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 21:21:42 +0000

Robin, it cracked me up, too. What a ridiculous thing to say! Lots of scents blend cool and warm, or, more usually, start out cool and then warm up–to name just three recent ones that come to mind, CK IN2U Him, L'Instant du Guerlain Pour Homme, and Dior's Fahrenheit 32.

Anyway, I'm completely finished with anything nowadays that calls itself “fresh” (or “aqua” or anything along those lines). They're just code words for synthetic, boring, done to death.