Comments on: Serge Lutens L’Eau Serge Lutens ~ fragrance review

By: Robin

Robin — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 22:49:39 +0000

LOL…I agree 100% w/ your boyfriend! Stick with the Dove

By: promiseevans

promiseevans — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 21:57:56 +0000

I love it… Bathe everyday… I totally just laughed out loud on a conference call for work, so I’m busted for obviously not paying attention. Robin, you sound just like my boyfriend. He was standing in Ulta with me one day and happened across the “Clean” line of fragrances (he already suffers from totally NOT understanding my love of perfumes)… and he turns to me as if I’d just asked him to bake 100 muffins saying, “I don’t get it… ‘Clean this, Clean that, Clean Cotton, Clean Shower, blah blah blah’ why can’t people just take a freakin’ bath if you want to smell clean! You can get a bar of Dove at the grocer’s for like $1!”

By: Robin

Robin — Fri, 21 May 2010 03:43:10 +0000

Glad you found one that works!

By: loves

loves — Thu, 20 May 2010 12:16:49 +0000

i loved my other SL scents in colder climates but in the humid tropics this is about the only SL i can bear to wear. the rest give me horrible headaches.

By: Bela

Bela — Wed, 19 May 2010 12:54:01 +0000

Only just read this. I am SO glad you wrote this, Bruno. I’ve been trying to explain all the place that we French never use to word ‘cologne’ (with a small ‘c’) to mean a men’s scent – only Eau de Cologne to mean, as you say, proper Eau de Cologne. Thank you for confirming what I said.

By: Robin

Robin — Sat, 08 May 2010 16:26:16 +0000

Just using the term above, cologne, to talk about your classic Eau de Cologne. The term here is used in the US with very little specificity, sometimes it is used to refer to classic Eau de Cologne, sometimes to refer to a concentration, and sometimes generically to refer to almost any men’s fragrance.

By: Bruno

Bruno — Fri, 07 May 2010 22:43:43 +0000

I don’t know if it is because of translation, but i read a similar interview in a french magazine and SL says that it is not an “eau de cologne” because he hates eau de cologne. But he doesn’t say that he hates cologne. In french we never use the word “cologne”. We only use Eau de Cologne to talk about…Eau de Cologne. In french, eau de toilette = Cologne in English, but not Eau de Cologne. I remember he said that he didn’t like Eau de Cologne because of it bitterness and because it is not a confortable fragrance.

By: Robin

Robin — Sun, 02 May 2010 22:10:58 +0000

That sounds about right, except the MF, I’m sure, was much cheaper!

By: Robin

Robin — Sun, 02 May 2010 22:10:28 +0000

It’s a lot of money for what it is, agree.

By: 50_Roses

50_Roses — Sun, 02 May 2010 21:45:00 +0000

I haven’t actually smelled this yet, but from the comments and description, I cannot imagine spending $150 for it either. If I want an anti-perfume, I will stick with a light Eau de Cologne (I for one, do NOT hate cologne), such as 4711. It smells great and I can get a 200 mL bottle for about $30.

Actually, the idea of “anti-perfume” reminded me of a product I found for sale in the late 80′s from Max Factor called “invisible makeup”. It was supposed to make your skin look better without looking as if you were actually wearing makeup. It claimed to contain ingredients which scattered UV and blue wavelengths, reducing the effect of blemishes and wrinkles, but had very little actual pigment.