Well, I'm "back home again in Indiana" after a long day of sniffing in Chicago yesterday. 
To be honest, the trip was very interesting. I learned a lot from the L'Artisan boutique. (For example, did you know that Passage d'Enfer has a civet note, albeit a synthetic one?) They were so kind, and I got to smell a lot of their creations. I left with a bottle of Ananas Fizz... I feel that this will be a good refresher for the summer. Likewise, my mom got a bottle of Verte Violette for similar reasons.
After L'Artisan, we had lunch over at Tucci Benucch... it was pretty darn good. Afterwards, we went over to Water Tower Place and C.O. Bigelow... and here's where the fun starts.
During an (unsuccessful) attempt to find a bathroom, I stopped by the Sephora in the same building and spritzed on Dolce & Gabanna's Light Blue Pour Homme. I gave it a spritz, thinking that it would be a nice citrus from the notes description, and all I got was... you guessed it... pure Acqua di Gio. I thought that "Doesn't the world already have 5,000+ AdG clones"?
The same disaster was happening at the fragrance counter at Macy's on the first floor... Kenneth Cole RSVP, CK IN2U, and Pimp Diddy's Unforgivable Multi-Platinum dotted the shelves.
Anyhoo, whoever green-lighted D&G Light Blue Pour Homme at P&G, which is not in the spirit of the women's one at all, should be re-assigned to Joy Brand Manager... the dishwashing detergent, not the perfume. It's people like this (and focus groups) who are destroying perfumery, turning works of art into mass-produced disasters. All in all, I'm getting sick of this designer Xerox-Perfumery... IMO, with the exception of Jean Paul Gaultier's Fleur du Male, every new designer men's scent this year has not been very innovative.
No wonder I'm slowly starting to turn to niche fragrances more often.
To be honest, the trip was very interesting. I learned a lot from the L'Artisan boutique. (For example, did you know that Passage d'Enfer has a civet note, albeit a synthetic one?) They were so kind, and I got to smell a lot of their creations. I left with a bottle of Ananas Fizz... I feel that this will be a good refresher for the summer. Likewise, my mom got a bottle of Verte Violette for similar reasons.
After L'Artisan, we had lunch over at Tucci Benucch... it was pretty darn good. Afterwards, we went over to Water Tower Place and C.O. Bigelow... and here's where the fun starts.
During an (unsuccessful) attempt to find a bathroom, I stopped by the Sephora in the same building and spritzed on Dolce & Gabanna's Light Blue Pour Homme. I gave it a spritz, thinking that it would be a nice citrus from the notes description, and all I got was... you guessed it... pure Acqua di Gio. I thought that "Doesn't the world already have 5,000+ AdG clones"?
The same disaster was happening at the fragrance counter at Macy's on the first floor... Kenneth Cole RSVP, CK IN2U, and Pimp Diddy's Unforgivable Multi-Platinum dotted the shelves.Anyhoo, whoever green-lighted D&G Light Blue Pour Homme at P&G, which is not in the spirit of the women's one at all, should be re-assigned to Joy Brand Manager... the dishwashing detergent, not the perfume. It's people like this (and focus groups) who are destroying perfumery, turning works of art into mass-produced disasters. All in all, I'm getting sick of this designer Xerox-Perfumery... IMO, with the exception of Jean Paul Gaultier's Fleur du Male, every new designer men's scent this year has not been very innovative.
No wonder I'm slowly starting to turn to niche fragrances more often.
