What is the ideal scent for a dandy?

Obviously, Le Dandy by d'Orsay

also
Crown Perfumery, Sandringham
Creed, Royal Delight

I've a feeling for those
niche:

Boi D'Argent
Cologne Blanche
Eau Noire Cologne
Boi D'Armini
Chamade PH
Chanel No.18
Bois d'Iris
Hermèssence Vétiver Tonka
Hermèssence Ambre Narguilé
Tom Ford Private Blends
& anything from L'Artisan would fit

non-niche;

Insensé
Ricci Club
Jazz Prestige
Dunhill Edition
Rive Gauche
Egoiste

What an entirely AWFUL project. To actively search for snobbiness.

the dandy is similar to Beau Brummel. being a dandy doesn't make you a bad person.

Since dandyism started out in England and I think I read that Penhaligon's has an offering for the dandy, I'd give them a try.

The blasé snobbery of self-proclaimed aristocrats is inacceptable. Oscar Wilde's witty snobbery is superb.

I think it's funny that the one shunning this thread will only purchase one house.

Take a look at the review for Hugh Parson's 99 Regent Street. It describes 99 just like what you are looking for.

Love me or hate me for saying it, but I think that we are all a bit "Snobby". Its kind of the nature of our basenotes community. Most of us come here daily to talk to each other about fragrance. We consider ourselves to be a bit better than the average joe in terms of or fragrance knowledge and believe our tastes to be more refined. Now I am not saying that this is a bad thing, I am very thankful for this community and the knowledge that I have attained here. The people who frequent this board are quite genteel and willing to help and advise their fellow man.

Just my two cents. Take it for what its worth.

^ The Duke has a point.

Why not look at the term "snobbery" with a bit of humor? Of course no one wills evil doing or anything dastardly, hell, we're just having fun here. Maybe true snobbery is a venial sin, but it isn't a mortal one.

In fact, isn't it kind of fun in our lives when we lift our noses at something? Birkenstock sandals! Ugh, how early 90s and how gauche. I just don't get it. Why, anyone with any real sense wears flipflops today.

Another car chase, exposions, and pretty-girls-dancing movie! How many times do we get that same formula? I'm tired of it. I won't trade my money for the pleasure, thank you.

Snobbery. Well hell. I'm not advocating being an asshole, but if the word and various levels to its complexity are denied, well, let the word go out that I'm no virgin. Sure, when snobbery is an insult, or someone says I only like something because I'm a snob, that's a problem because it's an insult. That's not what's going on here though, this is sort of an insightful question. What scent gives its wearer enough of a boost to feel more experienced and wise than hoi polloi without going too far and rendering the wearer self-conscious for it?

For my answer I gravitate to older and more experienced scents. One that show I've got the taste to stick with a good thing that no one notices anymore. I realize the poster wants a modern scent that does that though. I'm therefore less help. I'd go for a men's floral scent then. Because flowers DO smell good and most every other man is scared of them because he thinks his balls will dry up and fall off if he wears a floral. Also masculine florals are always complex. I'd say Dior Homme or Annick Goutal's Duel.
--Chris

I discovered a masculine floral last week that I think is wonderful from the nineties.
Anthracite Pour L'Homme by Jacomo. It is discontinued, but found a couple of bottles at my local fragrance store. I am always aware of what scentemental is wearing in his SOTD posts. He wore this twice in a row recently so it peaked my interest. Floral, spicy, and just plain smells good. Is this a floral a dandy would wear? Probably not, maybe. But on the heels of DustB's post I thought I would mention this one. It is available at perfumebay.com.

That has nothing to do with snobbery, but with nostalgic romance. I have a special feeling for Guerlain because of a personal experience. For me, perfume is like music, linked to genuine feelings. Snobbery is about shallowness, and I really don't think that the world anno 2007 needs that...

I'm not shunning this thread, but I can't think of one single Guerlain-perfume that radiates snobbery.

But that is because he is a "collector" not a "snob".

I haven't sniffed this one myslef, but try on the modern version of Guerlain's Habit Rouge. I posted this earlier this week, but the original HR sure makes me feel like a dandy. I just threw that "modern version" in there if it feels better to look at something with an updated (not saying better) formula.

Would love to smell that version myself actually... Dior Homme is also a perfect suggestion. Easy to find as well.

I had to look up "Dandy" on wikipedia...not a commonly used American term!

"A dandy is a man who places particular importance upon physical appearance, refined language, and the cultivation of leisurely hobbies. Historically, especially in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain, a dandy often strove to imitate an aristocratic style of life despite being of middle-class background"

Sounds like me! I blow the little money I have on insanely expensive and vanity-based fragrances!

Lighten up people and enter into the spirit of the thread for my guinea's worth i'd have to go with maitre parfumeur et gantier's iris bleu gris it just seems made for the concept of a what a dandy is in my mind.

lots more ideas in this April thread on Dandyism

http://community.basenotes.net/showthread.php?t=195216

Royal Bain de Caron

Hey, come on guys...the question was not pros and contras of a Dandy, or what so ever, but wich frags he'd use....

I have and would suggest Malmaison by Floris... seems that Oscar Wilde was wearing it...It s a very theatrical scent, kind a heavy I would say..


Renz

for a modern dandy..I thought about YSL NU 'edp'.

some interesting thoughts on the subject of "Dandys" here:

http://www.vetivresse.com/

Richard James Savile Row

Hermèssence Ambre Narguilé for sure ....

Lalique Pour Homme