What did your parents wear when you were children? Or if your prefer, what do they wear now, that is, what would you give from as a birthday or Christmas present?
When I was very very little I could always find my mother in a crowd because she always wore D'Orsay's Intoxication and Le Dix from Balenciaga. These two are in fact my earliest memories of "scentual" identification. Of course her real signature was the now-defunct original Bob Mackie (now reissued under a very different formulation) and Narcisse Noir from Caron. When the Mackie disappeared from the perfume counters at Bendel's she turned to St. John's White Camilla as it's subsequent heir. Only on extremely special occasions would she bring out the Sortilege and Indiscret from Lucien Lelong as well as her wide collection of all things Bourjois which she very cleverly kept locked up away from my busy little hands. Now she mostly prefers to wear niche fragrances like Biba from Ava Luxe and her very own commissioned perfume oils from Createurs et Parfumeurs in Paris with the very occasional spritz from Anouchka by Revillon, Kimono by Lafco, Fraiche Passiflore by Maitre & Gantier, Lily Prune Fruity Musk by Ulric de Varens, and Suggestion by Claude Montana. Now, I know better than to give my mother perfume as a present but I recently hit the jackbot this summer when I acquired the new Rose by Hervé Léger and two respective bottles of Sun and Sex from the Colette Summer 1999 collection at L'eclaireur. Panthère and Desnuda are her guilty pleasures.
As per my father's taste, he is a much simpler man sans the excessive eccentricities of either my mother or myself. He has been wearing Knize Ten since he was fifteen and rarely if ever strays from that trademark unless it's Carthusia Numero Uno or Kiton. In the 1980's he wore Christian Dior Jules and Paco Rabanne. However he does enjoy both of the mens fragrances by Yohji Yamamoto and especially Escada Casual Friday for some really really odd reason, a great deal too. We were recently in Europe this Summer and we stocked up on all things Adolfo Dominguez and Loewe, as well as Patricia de Nicolaï too, of course.
So, tell me about your mother and father.
When I was very very little I could always find my mother in a crowd because she always wore D'Orsay's Intoxication and Le Dix from Balenciaga. These two are in fact my earliest memories of "scentual" identification. Of course her real signature was the now-defunct original Bob Mackie (now reissued under a very different formulation) and Narcisse Noir from Caron. When the Mackie disappeared from the perfume counters at Bendel's she turned to St. John's White Camilla as it's subsequent heir. Only on extremely special occasions would she bring out the Sortilege and Indiscret from Lucien Lelong as well as her wide collection of all things Bourjois which she very cleverly kept locked up away from my busy little hands. Now she mostly prefers to wear niche fragrances like Biba from Ava Luxe and her very own commissioned perfume oils from Createurs et Parfumeurs in Paris with the very occasional spritz from Anouchka by Revillon, Kimono by Lafco, Fraiche Passiflore by Maitre & Gantier, Lily Prune Fruity Musk by Ulric de Varens, and Suggestion by Claude Montana. Now, I know better than to give my mother perfume as a present but I recently hit the jackbot this summer when I acquired the new Rose by Hervé Léger and two respective bottles of Sun and Sex from the Colette Summer 1999 collection at L'eclaireur. Panthère and Desnuda are her guilty pleasures.
As per my father's taste, he is a much simpler man sans the excessive eccentricities of either my mother or myself. He has been wearing Knize Ten since he was fifteen and rarely if ever strays from that trademark unless it's Carthusia Numero Uno or Kiton. In the 1980's he wore Christian Dior Jules and Paco Rabanne. However he does enjoy both of the mens fragrances by Yohji Yamamoto and especially Escada Casual Friday for some really really odd reason, a great deal too. We were recently in Europe this Summer and we stocked up on all things Adolfo Dominguez and Loewe, as well as Patricia de Nicolaï too, of course.
So, tell me about your mother and father.
Why hilarious?
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