Name drops: 14
Hubert de GivenchyBonus points:
Audrey Hepburn
Ernest Shiftan
Francis Fabron
Jean Guichard
Dominique Ropion
Alberto Morillas Ilias Ermenidis
Françoise Donche
Jacques Cavallier
Emilie Coppermann
Lucas Sieuzac
Justin Timberlake
Jean-Claude Ellena
Frédéric Malle
Perfumers: 9Jean-Claude Ellena Deluxe Triple Bonus Points®: 9
Celebrities: 2
Moguls & “Creative Directors”: 2
French: 10
Movie & book allusions: 3
Flashdance
Transformers
The Da Vinci Code
Bonus Points:
Naming studio and publisher: 2Nonsensical fragrance description:
neon gourmands: 1Total BurrOmeter reading for Play: 52 milliburrs
Outlook: Stormy—Popular warm front meets critical arctic air mass
2 comments:
Funny in a mean way. But don't we all have a shtick? Even science has a shtick. Writing about perfume can either be a way to tell stories or make associations or be informative, but it's often dangerously close to ad copy. I've stopped my blog so many times because I realize that all I'm doing is selling stuff without making commission. I didn't set out to do ad copy, I think to myself. It occurs to me that many of us are living, grasping commodities ourselves and that all we can do is perpetually sell ourselves through this very commercial writing. Even so, there is a real appreciation in there, an attempt to tell our own stories through the perfumes and pomades and pop culture trivia plastered onto us until we become pathetic pinatas.
I think the post is funny in a gently mocking kind of way. Besides, Burr can stand the heat.
"Jean-Claude Ellena Deluxe Triple Bonus Points®: 9"
LOL! Well, I guess he has to keep reminding people that there's this book out there, you know, the one that feature Ellena and Sarah Jessica Parker and . . .
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