It wasn't a mob scene like dear cuddly Tom's launch. Still, there were enough people there pulling him in 10 directions at once that it was necessary to wait seated at the doctor's-desk-like set up for my appt, sipping champagne and munching on dark and white chocolate covered strawberries, sampling the malles I hadn't tried yet (all of them very floral and not manly, maybe I could wear un fleur de cassie but not all that likely I would) with this woman who said she wanted to ask how to get started as a perfumer. I thought it was a terrible idea for her to ask this and really feared for her when she went on to mangle the French names of the Malle bottles. I decided to take the onus off of her by declaring when he arrived to help us "We want to become perfumers!" I wasn't far off in anticipating his response, which was, in a word: don't.
Later I told him about my desire to create fragrances to go along with my short films and he thought the idea was "beautiful" and wrote the name of one of his perfumers and told me I should email him, which demonstrates a nice being out of touch with reality not atypical of the very privliged. Evidently this one did some scents to be pumped into the auditorium during performances of a Verdi opera. At the moment I'm shamefacedly forced to confess I can't find the name of the Malle stables stud he had in mind, somehow I have misplaced the card. Oopsie! I only had 2 flutes of champagne, so I think it'll turn up...perhaps its in my dear economy car. Otherwise the dear old internet can help me pinpoint the person. Maybe I can write to those dears at F Malle online and ask. I might as well email the chap, eh?; Fred specifically said to!
I asked him about the "fresh water notes" in Vetiver Extraordinairre and that pleased him. He said it was a deliberate effect. (So there!)
He was astonished when I produced a Mark Birley box for him to sign "How did you know about my involvement with it?" Well, actually it was the SA I once whined about for lying about there being no Malle samples available who told me that Malle had collaborated on it with dear Pierre Bourdon. And that SA is the one who snapped this photo, the dear! MB was FM's maiden effort.
(By the by, to those who disparage it incorrectly as a knock off of AdGio, not only is that wrong because it is quite different, but such a put down is also way off base given the fact that MB was released a couple of years before AdG!)
I also told him of my fantasy of creating a men's/unisex line of brashly harsh soapy fragrances inspired by SMN and he seemed to like that idea, considering Mark Birley to be an instance of something along these lines. (mmm, kinda...).
I didn't get a personal fragrance consultation. There was no point when I know the line, really. So I wish I'd worn something special after all when I went with nothing on. I think he might have been a little more willing to sniff than Tom Ford, who had the illusions of hundreds of horny women looking on to worry about smashing (as if there could have been a single illusion among the lot of them!). Unlike with cuddly Tom, it wasn't necessary to make a purchase for this promotion.
Alas, I wanted to dress better than this, but I have to get my stuff cleaaanned! And sorry the pictures are not better. Today I couldn't find my camera and again had to use the phone!
Later I told him about my desire to create fragrances to go along with my short films and he thought the idea was "beautiful" and wrote the name of one of his perfumers and told me I should email him, which demonstrates a nice being out of touch with reality not atypical of the very privliged. Evidently this one did some scents to be pumped into the auditorium during performances of a Verdi opera. At the moment I'm shamefacedly forced to confess I can't find the name of the Malle stables stud he had in mind, somehow I have misplaced the card. Oopsie! I only had 2 flutes of champagne, so I think it'll turn up...perhaps its in my dear economy car. Otherwise the dear old internet can help me pinpoint the person. Maybe I can write to those dears at F Malle online and ask. I might as well email the chap, eh?; Fred specifically said to!
I asked him about the "fresh water notes" in Vetiver Extraordinairre and that pleased him. He said it was a deliberate effect. (So there!)
He was astonished when I produced a Mark Birley box for him to sign "How did you know about my involvement with it?" Well, actually it was the SA I once whined about for lying about there being no Malle samples available who told me that Malle had collaborated on it with dear Pierre Bourdon. And that SA is the one who snapped this photo, the dear! MB was FM's maiden effort.
(By the by, to those who disparage it incorrectly as a knock off of AdGio, not only is that wrong because it is quite different, but such a put down is also way off base given the fact that MB was released a couple of years before AdG!)
I also told him of my fantasy of creating a men's/unisex line of brashly harsh soapy fragrances inspired by SMN and he seemed to like that idea, considering Mark Birley to be an instance of something along these lines. (mmm, kinda...).
I didn't get a personal fragrance consultation. There was no point when I know the line, really. So I wish I'd worn something special after all when I went with nothing on. I think he might have been a little more willing to sniff than Tom Ford, who had the illusions of hundreds of horny women looking on to worry about smashing (as if there could have been a single illusion among the lot of them!). Unlike with cuddly Tom, it wasn't necessary to make a purchase for this promotion.
Alas, I wanted to dress better than this, but I have to get my stuff cleaaanned! And sorry the pictures are not better. Today I couldn't find my camera and again had to use the phone!
