Kiehls Original Musk edt. Went on nice, and yeah baby, this is musk, they got that right. I know the popular connotations of musk--hairy chest, neck ornamentation, muscle cars, pants tight around the crotch, and Burt Reynolds moustaches, but I get something else from it. I smell 80s power suits in musk, high quality luggage, choices about when you unfold the restaurants white napkin (upon sitting down or upon drink or appetizer course arrival) in restaurants with copper light and railings in the eating space. Dark fine point ties on white shirts. Musk makes me think of luxury indulgence in the era when Ralph Lauren taught pop American culture about clubbiness, preppieness, and made the wealthy bourgeoisie back into the petty bourgeoisie all over again, because now you needed some crest on your stupid blue jacket. Musk smells like where people went out at this time and did it right, not pop.
Kiehls gets this and I almost had to have it. But I wore a shot of it on my wrist instead, to see how it would go.
Powerful for hours. Even today, after washing the dishes last night, cooking dinner, sleeping, and shower, its still on the back of my hand. But it gets linear and falls a bit dull. Stays dull. Its got the same regrettable lingering that a smelly dog does. It doesnt smell like smelly dog, but you know when a dog is smelly and around you, and you like the dog, you just wish it didnt smell that way. Every time you smell it you simply wish it didnt have to keep smelling that way. Wish somehow it could suddenly be different. Thats what Kiehls Musk in edt does. You just wish it would be something, and you wonder why the world has to have this nice dog be so dull.
--Chris
Kiehls gets this and I almost had to have it. But I wore a shot of it on my wrist instead, to see how it would go.
Powerful for hours. Even today, after washing the dishes last night, cooking dinner, sleeping, and shower, its still on the back of my hand. But it gets linear and falls a bit dull. Stays dull. Its got the same regrettable lingering that a smelly dog does. It doesnt smell like smelly dog, but you know when a dog is smelly and around you, and you like the dog, you just wish it didnt smell that way. Every time you smell it you simply wish it didnt have to keep smelling that way. Wish somehow it could suddenly be different. Thats what Kiehls Musk in edt does. You just wish it would be something, and you wonder why the world has to have this nice dog be so dull.
--Chris
