So I tried Tommy for the first time; not sure how I missed this one but my early fragrance days were with that other american juggernaut brand Calvin Klein. Well the scent is brilliant, a wonderful rose and spiced apple. Because its a floral, even as an EDC it's longevity is superb. There's a reason this stuff sold by the boatload, it's quite pleasant.
And let's be clear what Tommy, the all-American brand fragrance is, a modern French floral fougere, a rose fragrance with tart apple and spice accompaniment. Of course, the marketers probably realized you can't sell a rose base fragrance to the sexually insecure American consumer so you need to add fake ridiculous notes like "Kentucky blue grass." A classical French floral sold to men isn't going to fly, and even the folks that make Old Spice leave it off their note breakdown even though Old Spice's rose is even more egregiously pungent and obvious.
Rose or other florals generally have a feminine connotations to American consumers. Unfortunately, florals, like musk are what make fragrance stick. It's why the flood of boring aquatics had mostly 2 hour hang time until Maurice Roucel took an aquatic and gave it incredible longevity simply by adding a floral, mimose to his brilliant 2006 release of Nautica Voyage.
When time came to make the feminine, Tommy Girl, it was easy enough, Calice Becker, she took the same note structure of the best selling original and amped up the rose to an extreme degree to make it unmistakably, undeniably rose and therefore "feminine."
I guess why I posted is to say guys, if you want to know why masculines tend to be largely generic short-wearing rubbish, it's because of hang ups many men have admitting to themselves that they are wearing, enjoy, and smell like a flower.
And let's be clear what Tommy, the all-American brand fragrance is, a modern French floral fougere, a rose fragrance with tart apple and spice accompaniment. Of course, the marketers probably realized you can't sell a rose base fragrance to the sexually insecure American consumer so you need to add fake ridiculous notes like "Kentucky blue grass." A classical French floral sold to men isn't going to fly, and even the folks that make Old Spice leave it off their note breakdown even though Old Spice's rose is even more egregiously pungent and obvious.
Rose or other florals generally have a feminine connotations to American consumers. Unfortunately, florals, like musk are what make fragrance stick. It's why the flood of boring aquatics had mostly 2 hour hang time until Maurice Roucel took an aquatic and gave it incredible longevity simply by adding a floral, mimose to his brilliant 2006 release of Nautica Voyage.
When time came to make the feminine, Tommy Girl, it was easy enough, Calice Becker, she took the same note structure of the best selling original and amped up the rose to an extreme degree to make it unmistakably, undeniably rose and therefore "feminine."
I guess why I posted is to say guys, if you want to know why masculines tend to be largely generic short-wearing rubbish, it's because of hang ups many men have admitting to themselves that they are wearing, enjoy, and smell like a flower.
