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The perfect scent!?

post #1 of 51
Thread Starter 
Hi,

Which fragrance would you recommend for a communist?

Taking in consideration:

-That it should not be overpriced
-The raw materials should be abundant and relatively cheap.
-And no capitalist would dear to wear it without becoming a revolutionary.
post #2 of 51
Pure Havane.

post #3 of 51
Patchouli oil?
post #4 of 51
Thread Starter 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Bigsly View Post

Patchouli oil?

I should have mentioned that a real fragrance contains more than one ingredient. In that case patchouli oil should be eliminated from the list.

(I just don’t like modern metro sexual capitalist perfumes)
post #5 of 51
Tsar
post #6 of 51
Thread Starter 
What about Givenchy Gentleman? Do you think it's provoking enough for the fragile nose of a petit-bourgeois? Taking note that sexy womens prefer the rebels rather than the old fart dressed in a borring suit.(not really the Versace mafiosi suit kind of style)

Also what about Yatagan or l'Anarchiste?
post #7 of 51
If you are a true communist, Dictator, you already know the answer from the works of Marx, Engels and Lenin (or Trotsky).
Ah, forget it, just buy any stuff you want from the most expensive boutiques... before the masses decide they smell a rat
post #8 of 51
Thread Starter 
lol

But seriously? Imagine you have to go to a left wing rally and you want to smell good in a proper communist way?
post #9 of 51
Muscs Koublai Khan...
post #10 of 51
Tears
post #11 of 51
The smell of hard labor for your country and compatriots.
post #12 of 51
Kouros.
post #13 of 51
Quote:
Originally Posted by Baldini View Post

Pure Havane.


@ Baldini - right on target !!!
post #14 of 51
This is probably a joke thread, as per the original poster's name being 'dictator' - inspired by the Borat movie, perhaps? - but I will answer it seriously anyway, as something does come to mind.

My neighbour is the ex-secretary of my country's Communist Party, and met Mao in the '70s. I don't recall him ever smelling of anything. He is in his 90s now, however, and devotes all his time to his writing.

I would suggest something of Caron's.

First, Caron was founded by he immortal Ernest Daltroff, who, like Marx, was a Jewish intellectual of sorts. Who that smelled anything of Daltroff's could not consider him an intellectual? He is the only perfumer whom I admire as a human being. What thoughts he had, and commemorated in his perfumes. Were Marx a perfumer rather than a philosopher, I suspect he might have done something a little like Daltroff did. Like many Jews, Daltroff fled Paris during WWII, and sought refuse in America. He died not long after returning to France after the war.

Second, Caron is alone among all the French perfume houses in having had the liberty of women at the forefront of their minds from the very start - well, from at least as early as 1919. Tabac Blond was devised as a tribute to flappers, to either complement or conceal their smoking cigarettes, which until then were the exclusive indulgence of men. Then there was En Avion, released in 1929, to commemorate the very first female pilots. I believe that Caron was alone in endorsing the somewhat subversive boundary-pushing of women, and their attempts to leave the oppression of former eras behind them. Daltroff seems to have genuinely admired them. Inherently a somewhat communist thing, this admiration for revolution. 'You have nothing to lose but your chains.'

Third, Caron spends a pittance on advertising than other houses do. Compared to Caron, Guerlain is like Coca Cola. So a left-winger could go with Caron with a clearish conscience in respect of not feeding a commercial hype machine. They are very well-priced, too - highly affordable. Which chances to coincide with their being the only French house that still produce true extraits, keeping the tradition alive so to speak.

On the whole, I think that a communist probably ought not wear a scent at all; did not Lenin abandon music, which he loved, from the thought that it was born of a pre-revolutionary system, and would distract him from his particular ideals? Nevertheless, were s/he to wear something, I think En Avion would be a good choice, suggesting as it does ascent, freedom, and so on, as well as its historical background.

Anyway, just my thoughts. You should probably just go with lavender or patchouli oil, if you want to be perfectly orthodox!
post #15 of 51
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Originally Posted by Trauerkraut View Post

Tsar

I very much agree.
post #16 of 51
I understand Trotsky had a thing for Jicky
post #17 of 51
I would also say TSAR but thinking about it, I would prefer this one more:

post #18 of 51
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Originally Posted by Dernier_Cri View Post

I understand Trotsky had a thing for Jicky

Really?
post #19 of 51
Success by Trump of course. Keep 'em guessin' right?
post #20 of 51
Quote:
Originally Posted by Dictator View Post

lol

But seriously? Imagine you have to go to a left wing rally and you want to smell good in a proper communist way?

I see something profoundly out of place with an ideologue - of the marching kind - wearing perfume.
post #21 of 51
grey flannel
post #22 of 51
Quote:
Originally Posted by Dictator View Post


(I just don’t like modern metro sexual capitalist perfumes)

Jazz by YSL
Tsar
Quorum
post #23 of 51
Quote:
Originally Posted by change1 View Post

Muscs Koublai Khan...

+1 Comrade.
post #24 of 51
Which signifier of class privilege/totem of bourgeois aspiration would I recommend to a communist?

Uhmmm....
post #25 of 51
Insurrection by Reyanne Tradition
post #26 of 51
Double Post
post #27 of 51
Anarchiste by Caron
post #28 of 51
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Originally Posted by Ken_Russell View Post

Anarchiste by Caron

Yes, indeed.
post #29 of 51
One Man Show
post #30 of 51
RED!

SixCats!
post #31 of 51
Micallef YELLOW SEA
Or RED SEA
post #32 of 51
Anything dated.
post #33 of 51
Thread Starter 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Merely View Post

This is probably a joke thread, as per the original poster's name being 'dictator' - inspired by the Borat movie, perhaps? - but I will answer it seriously anyway, as something does come to mind.

My neighbour is the ex-secretary of my country's Communist Party, and met Mao in the '70s. I don't recall him ever smelling of anything. He is in his 90s now, however, and devotes all his time to his writing.


Anyway, just my thoughts. You should probably just go with lavender or patchouli oil, if you want to be perfectly orthodox!

Do you know what used to wear Dear Mao?
post #34 of 51
Thread Starter 
Krasnaya Moskva - Red Moscow fragrance for women



http://readrussia.com/blog/made-in-russia/00262/

If you find any related article to some manly communist fragrance please share it.
post #35 of 51
Thread Starter 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Halo View Post

Anything dated.

Givenchy Gentleman have a lot of patchouli but do you think it's dated??
post #36 of 51
Not at all dated....

Dated, I mean that smells certainly of another era and out of fashion completely:
Open by Roger et Gallet comes to mind right now, or Chaps by Ralph Lauren.
post #37 of 51
Thread Starter 
Quote:
Originally Posted by change1 View Post

Muscs Koublai Khan...

$$$ I am not Marie Antoinette!
post #38 of 51
Haha, obviously a troll thread but funny nevertheless. Proper communist perfume? Yeah, right.. My recommendation: Clive Christian.
post #39 of 51
Old Spice. Still smells great & costs about $8.
post #40 of 51
Anything BUT Tsar! The commies overthrew him, remember?!
post #41 of 51
Quote:
Originally Posted by Dictator View Post

Hi,

Which fragrance would you recommend for a communist?

Rive Gauche of course
post #42 of 51
Quote:
Originally Posted by frug View Post

Rive Gauche of course

post #43 of 51
Bond No9- Wall Street; Hamptons; New Haarlem or Harrods Swaroviski (this is a limited edition, so you'd better run).
post #44 of 51
Thread Starter 
I finally decided that Givenchy Gentleman is a great communist fragrance. In a hot summer day or night you feel like a Cuban guerilla fighter who just took Havana city shot some bastards and then got into a nationalized 5* hotel to take its first shower in 2 years. You get that soapy effect in this cologne which is nice. Soap is a product of the masses. Also the name Gentleman has a special socialist meaning to me. A true gentleman in the 21th century can only be a communist since a capitalist can only be a pig. For all the jokers I hope that someday the shame of your action will make you red.

(Sorry for my poor English I believe that a true socialist should write English very badly since it's the language of the capitalist hordes.)
post #45 of 51
^^^^ Lol. My blood is already red. Isn't that enough?
post #46 of 51
Thread Starter 
Quote:
Originally Posted by moore View Post

^^^^ Lol. My blood is already red. Isn't that enough?

Only if you share it for the Revolution
post #47 of 51
For me, it has to be Kouros.... One Man Show (which, from what I gather was a Russian legend!) for you!
post #48 of 51
Quote:
Originally Posted by Trauerkraut View Post

Tsar

Counterrevolutionary! Purge!

Actually, despite its name, I think this fits the OP's criteria.
post #49 of 51
Quote:
Originally Posted by Dictator View Post

Only if you share it for the Revolution

Rofl. But I'm so mundane and attached to material stuff. I love the smell of a brand new dolar note!
post #50 of 51
Quote:
Originally Posted by Dictator View Post

(Sorry for my poor English I believe that a true socialist should write English very badly since it's the language of the capitalist hordes.)

Then I guess my heart is socialist. My English is target of jokes many times and the misunderstands are incalculable.
post #51 of 51
Untitled No. 8 by Brent Leonesio
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