KhakiPeach67
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What about Versace Eros, especially Flame? I’ve heard it has citrus notes to the vanillaif you're pretty and want to know what fragrances to wear, look no further.
you don't want anything where spicy, woody, smoky, or musk notes are dominant. you also do not want anything too gourmand, the smell of prettyboy should not make people want to eat you, you must have an enigmatic, inviting, viper-like but exquisite scent that inspires a vague sense of divine terror and utter submission to the primordial androgyne, akin to what orthodox christians experience when viewing an icon. maybe JUST gourmand enough that it causes some salivation, but you don't want to create the image of food or eating (barbaric).
you generally want a powdery scent with gender neutral, even slightly feminine, with lavender, iris, some floral notes, maybe citrus. It is best they are very powdery. you need to smell like you just walked out of your family's vacation graeco-roman villa in palermo where you drank tea from fine silverware. you want weaker scents that do not project much and that are not very loud, but have a good sillage nonetheless. you want to induce the olfactory equivalent to this gaze:
On this note (pun intended), the best scents for such a young man are to be found in Celine's Haute Parfumerie.
- Rimbaud
elusive cosmic struggle of lavender and vanilla meant to evoke Arthur Rimbaud
the badboy prettyboy teenage poet from haussmannian paris. here's a poem of his so you get the idea:
Clear water: stinging like the child’s salt tears,
Whiteness of women’s bodies attacking the sun:
Silk, en masse and pure lily, Oriflammes
Under walls a Maid defended without fear:
Dancing of angels: – No...the gold current slid
Moving its dark arms, tired, cool above all, and green.
She, sombre, having the blue Heavens for canopy,
Summoned, as curtains, the arch and the hill’s shade.
- Saint-Germain-des-Prés
a powdery floral symphony at once both grandma-esque and youthful. a blast of green that melts into a powdery innocence with sparkles of white floral. would go well on a dark triad prettyboy with an especially innocent face to create a fascinating disaccord between scent, personality, face, and action. since you would expect it most on a 50 yo classy woman, the shattering of expectations would be delicious. would be too predictable and infantile on a well behaved boy though.
- Black Tie
a slightly more sultry version of rimbaud with less of a lavender opening and more erotic, but never sexual; a hint of creeping darkness reminiscent of that fallen angel painting; does not quite live up to the name, it is not necessarily a formal scent, but smells no less expensive, it would go well on a slender-framed but wide-shouldered young man wearing a billowy button down from Lanvin or The Row
The description from the House encapsulates it better than I can: "An androgynous composition, around vanilla as dense and as crisp as grain de poudre or lacquered satin. Fashioned like a dinner jacket, cedar and tree moss structure its allure, while the powdery caress of orris troubles body and mind."
Outside celine you have some good options
Pour un Homme de Caron
An old scent from 1934, i would say, philosophically, it's somewhere between celine's rimbaud and saint-germain-des-prés, but retains the former's life-and-death struggle between vanilla and lavender. I picture it on a modern day herschel grynspan, the jewish boy in nazi-occupied paris that assassinated an occupier and was in turn punished with death. at the end of the flower road lies the hint of a death of beauty, which strikes primordial fear in the old money czech grandma and the gymmaxed psl 4.25 mtn from suburban Michigan alike. Perhaps even more so the latter.
also maybe dior bois d'argent, zegna florentine iris (this one is too masc imo), chanel jersey
