Perfume Pen Pals: George Clooney vs. Tony Bennett Perfume Loyalty


Dan,

After resampling Serge Lutens Chergui and L'Artisan Parfumeur Dzing! today, I've decided to go Clooney on them and love 'em and leave 'em. Le Labo Labdanum 18 gives me what I love about Dzing!, and Chergui is great but has too much spicy syrup that just sits there on my arm like a whispering slug.

Katie


Katie,

Congratulations on not falling in love with too many perfumes at once. Life is complicated enough without simultaneously longing for a few dozen scents.

When Tony Bennett travels, he alerts his favorite Italian restaurant in each city to prepare the very same dish, some simple plate of pasta, because he doesn't want to waste any creative energy on worrying about what he's going to eat.

You're a long way from this regarding perfumes. Still, congratulations nonetheless. Eliminating two long-time favorites is nothing to sneeze at.

Dan


Dan,

But how about this Lutens Daim Blond that I keep pushing on you? It’s sort of a halfway house between Chergui and Dzing! Kind of like Clooney shagging Drew Barrymore after he'd had the other two Charlie's Angels.

Katie


Katie,

Daim Blond does look like a good bet for me. I like everything with apricot in it. (Or osmanthus, which supposedly smells like apricot.) Like peach, it's both fruity and sensual.

Though I'm not crazy about the George Clooney image. Stay away from him. We probably know where he's been, but we don't know how recently he's been there. And that's a critical detail!

Dan


Dan,

I'm thinking Clooney's tick-over rate of ladies is probably one "relationship" a week -- or maybe one every two weeks. So not too soon. Not like a sex hunter with a RV parked outside a swinger's club.

Katie

7 comments:

  1. RV-driving sex hunters, George Clooney, Tony Bennett and Dzing? Even I am speechless this morning.

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  2. The French philosopher Montaigne wrote: "Happiness is the ability to enjoy repetition". Tony Bennett gets this but it looks like a lesson George Clooney has yet to learn...

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  3. m61 - you never know where perfume is going to take you.

    flittersniffer - I'm sure Clooney's having too much fun being a bad student.

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  4. Oh great. You had to write about a Sex-hunter's RV on a perfume blog. Now my overly-literal mind can't stop thinking about what that would smell like.

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  5. Krista, it probably smells like an over-application of Lysol.

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  6. I thought George has been with the same woman for over a year now. Or am I over-thinking this? I mean, I think a celeb-dog would be John Mayer.

    Also wondering what is behind the recent Clooney mentions in your blog... makes him sound like he is a more fickle scent whore than his dating record infers. (OK, yes, I like Clooney). I think I am with Melisand61.

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  7. SoS, you're absolutely correct, George seems to have settled down for the present. The recent mentions of the man's...er...appetites are the continuation of a long-running reference in Perfume Pen Pals to “Clooney Syndrome”. Dan first invoked Clooney as a fumehead role model in this excerpt from a PPP on saffron roses:

    "As for your dream of auditioning all your samples in a room, it never seems to work that way. The more samples you add, the more muddled things become, and every single day you'll decide you have a new favorite perfume. A new favorite that by next Tuesday you'll have forgotten all about. It's probably a lot like dating is for George Clooney."

    So while George may have learned to stay with one love, Dan and I have not (perfume-wise, that is) and so we label our fume promiscuity by taking Clooney's name in vain.

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