Marketing BS reaches an all-time high (or low), with this new fragrance line. Created by Geza Schoen, most notable for the perennial BN goat Escentric Molecules, in conjunction with Christiane Stenger, who at only 12 was the youngest to be awarded the title of Grandmaster of Memory, (though I'm not sure what memory has to do with fragrance design, though perhaps I'm missing the point, as up until now had never heard of the Grandmaster of Memory), and renowned graphic design company MeCompany.
For those that have been around a little, the marketing blurb is a pretentious as they come, and quite frankly doesn't excite me that much. Everywhere in the world has this listed as feminine, even the ad claims "The Beautiful Mind is meant to remind us that a smart woman is a sexy woman." Yet, for some reason, Luckyscent put this in the MEN'S section, and on their new masculine/feminine line, puts it firmly in the middle, at unisex. WHICH might I add, is why I was a proponent for that feature when it was introduced, the notes and all marketing point this one in the feminine direction but if LS feels it is perfectly unisex, then it's something that I'll definitely seek out.
The notes are: magnolia, bergamot, mandarin, pink pepper, freesia, osmanthus, rose, hedione, tiare absolute, cedar, musk, sandalwood and cashmeran.
Those are some interesting notes, I'll take me some pink pepper and magnolia, thank you very much. But notes like the tiare, hedione and osmanthus, are notes I'm not particularly familiar with. Plus the freesia, to my knowledge at least, is a wildly underused note in perfumery. All in all, I'm a sucker for new stuff, whether the marketing fluff is BS or not, so I hope to test this one out soon.
Anyone know anything else or try this one yet?
NST link: http://www.nstperfume.com/2009/12/30...new-fragrance/
LuckyScent link: http://www.luckyscent.com/shop/secti...&_Fantasy.html
For those that have been around a little, the marketing blurb is a pretentious as they come, and quite frankly doesn't excite me that much. Everywhere in the world has this listed as feminine, even the ad claims "The Beautiful Mind is meant to remind us that a smart woman is a sexy woman." Yet, for some reason, Luckyscent put this in the MEN'S section, and on their new masculine/feminine line, puts it firmly in the middle, at unisex. WHICH might I add, is why I was a proponent for that feature when it was introduced, the notes and all marketing point this one in the feminine direction but if LS feels it is perfectly unisex, then it's something that I'll definitely seek out.
The notes are: magnolia, bergamot, mandarin, pink pepper, freesia, osmanthus, rose, hedione, tiare absolute, cedar, musk, sandalwood and cashmeran.
Those are some interesting notes, I'll take me some pink pepper and magnolia, thank you very much. But notes like the tiare, hedione and osmanthus, are notes I'm not particularly familiar with. Plus the freesia, to my knowledge at least, is a wildly underused note in perfumery. All in all, I'm a sucker for new stuff, whether the marketing fluff is BS or not, so I hope to test this one out soon.
Anyone know anything else or try this one yet?
NST link: http://www.nstperfume.com/2009/12/30...new-fragrance/
LuckyScent link: http://www.luckyscent.com/shop/secti...&_Fantasy.html
