I've got a long mental list of very heavy scents I want to work through these March weeks, and thought I'd naturally be picking one of them today. However, it's a rainy day. The rain pulls me to pick something else.
Inevitably, newbies are going to read this thread and one way or another, or in some measure, start to worry about which scents are appropriate for rainy days or which scents are in horribly poor taste if it starts to rain out, so let me take this opportunity for a quick qualifier: I'm not saying rain causes a new etiquette problem for you. As I hope to bring out, the object of this post is to suggest that different circumstances pull out of you, you the fragrance wearer, something different--the circumstances do not impose on you anything.
Anyone can wear anything anytime, and I could go through my list of heavies before the springtime really sets in, even though it is raining--the heavy orientals, leathers, sandalwoods, and so forth will smell fine on rainy days, so don't worry, I'm not saying there'd be anything wrong with picking one if that's what you want to wear.
What I am saying, however, is that the rain calls on me to mentally re-arrange, and see myself wanting to smell of something else that isn't heavy. I want to go through the day with something else, and I want to ask my fellow Basenoters if rain pulls from their grey cells a similar wish and to which scents that wish takes them.
In my case it's away from sweets. If anything I go more to traditional cologne smells, more toward citruses and dry woods. Hadrien Absolu was on me on another rainy day, and today it was almost Racquets Formula or Extra Vieille. Almost was the old Greenbriar too.
I find that I envision myself smelling more of these during the day, as I go through the collection hunting for something to grab me in the morning.
So I wonder if the rain pulls to you a different scent vision for yourself on those days?
Inevitably, newbies are going to read this thread and one way or another, or in some measure, start to worry about which scents are appropriate for rainy days or which scents are in horribly poor taste if it starts to rain out, so let me take this opportunity for a quick qualifier: I'm not saying rain causes a new etiquette problem for you. As I hope to bring out, the object of this post is to suggest that different circumstances pull out of you, you the fragrance wearer, something different--the circumstances do not impose on you anything.
Anyone can wear anything anytime, and I could go through my list of heavies before the springtime really sets in, even though it is raining--the heavy orientals, leathers, sandalwoods, and so forth will smell fine on rainy days, so don't worry, I'm not saying there'd be anything wrong with picking one if that's what you want to wear.
What I am saying, however, is that the rain calls on me to mentally re-arrange, and see myself wanting to smell of something else that isn't heavy. I want to go through the day with something else, and I want to ask my fellow Basenoters if rain pulls from their grey cells a similar wish and to which scents that wish takes them.
In my case it's away from sweets. If anything I go more to traditional cologne smells, more toward citruses and dry woods. Hadrien Absolu was on me on another rainy day, and today it was almost Racquets Formula or Extra Vieille. Almost was the old Greenbriar too.
I find that I envision myself smelling more of these during the day, as I go through the collection hunting for something to grab me in the morning.
So I wonder if the rain pulls to you a different scent vision for yourself on those days?
