Australian Members - Part II - if you read the first post, you'll get what this is all about.

[sebastian mcfox]



Thursday.

Where and when.

I might be out of town Thursday but otherwise in

 

[Osiris2012]

I have half a 5ml sample of Norne left, you can have it. Stuff smells like a Scandi hipster doing shots of jaeger in the basement of an old Chinese herbal medicine joint

If you don't get pine and a dark forest from Norne, your samples bunk or you're doing it wrong.

 

[sebastian mcfox]



If you don't get pine and a dark forest from Norne, your samples bunk or you're doing it wrong.

Nope, I sampled it again from
a 'real' bottle while overseas and it smelled the same. Not a fan.

 

[California Dreamer]

@The Ernesto You might want to try Polo Ralph Lauren Green, which has leather, tobacco AND pine.

I would also like to plug local firm Evocative Perfumes' Siberian Fir

 

[Journeyman]

Ernesto, tobacco vanille is very different - it starts off quite sweet and slightly intolerable, however ends quite light. Much more masculine than Tuscan leather. Think of it as deep musky sorta smell. I think Petepan could better describe - he's the person I sourced it from!

Interesting, and this illustrates how subjective this sort of thing can be.

I really like Tuscan Leather although my wife took a little while to get used to it - when I first wore it, she said that I smelled like a fire in a Chesterfield couch factory.

However, I find Tobacco Vanille to be too sweet and cloying. I hope that it would "dry down" into something that I liked more, but it didn't (to my nose, anyway) - it always remained too sweetish.

 

[sliq]

I'm also mindful that fragrances reacts differently to people's skins, so JM is right, it's subjective. I found that Tuscan leather is barely detectable by the end of the day. I can see why she thinks it smells like a chesterfield factory - however I find the scent of raspberries more prominent than the leather.

 

[Master-Classter]

I'll add a few to the list there...

For leather, try Hermessence cuir d'ange (Hermes store), Dior Cuir Canage (Dior Boutiques), Tom Ford Ombre Leather (David Jones), Le Labo Cuir 46 (selected Mecca's) and if you're in Syd/Melb then go to Men's Biz.

For pine - Tom Ford Italian Cypress (if you can still find it), Serge Lutens Fille en Aiguilles (Mecca)

And along the lines of burned wood, leather, pine, etc check out the various Comme Des Garcons and a bunch of the Amouage line. Oh and that whole new green series from Fords line too.

 

[LonerMatt]

I might be out of town Thursday but otherwise in

I'm busy Wednesday but free Friday next week, does that suit the four of us?

Otherwise, let's default to Thursday and hope the elder fox is available.

As for location - somewhere near Kingston on the water, I don't know where's good or average, so looking to you fellas for advice.

 

[The Ernesto]

Well, a big thanks to everyone for the scent advice. Lots of options and opinions. Appreciate the input.

Keen to try Norne solely because of Seb's very evocative description!

 

[Foxhound]

Well, a big thanks to everyone for the scent advice. Lots of options and opinions. Appreciate the input.

Not an issue, happy to help.

 

[The Ernesto]



Not an issue, happy to help.

Where would we be without you, foxy...

 

[Bravo Sierra]

Morning all,

Trawling through the trash online I came across this article re The Six Essential Shoes every man should own.

It's the last paragraph referring to Chelsea boots that got me (I chose to ignore the rest). The line about RM Williams now being a luxury boot maker....
So much for that blue collar / farmer heritage.

Thoughts?

 

[Geoffrey Firmin]

Seeing as I've been reading some hardcore Marxist theory this week I would say it's a simple fetishising and fabricated desire based on the romanticised myth of the outback that the band possesses in the popular urbane imigination. And the exploitation of this by the LVMH Group to increase sales based on exclusivity. From there it's a simple matter of absence & desire on the part of the surplused monied consumer who is seeking to fill a void in the banality of their existence. I also would venture that in the workers milieu that both their cultural capital and symbolic power would rise amongst their peers by their ownership of a custom made pair of Emu/Crocodile skin CV RM boots.

Disclaimer I do own four pairs of RM boots varying from 25 to 10 years old.

 

[acinod]

Gents,

Suitsupply suit just arrived and I need a tailor. Used to go to Sam and Feys near Docklands but seems like the man's retired.

Any suggestions?

 

[Pink Socks]



Gents,

Suitsupply suit just arrived and I need a tailor. Used to go to Sam and Feys near Docklands but seems like the man's retired.

Any suggestions?

I think he might have move - he has quite a few fans here who will remind you.

I use Chronic Fix on Greville - but mostly for jeans etc these days - the woman there who owns it is really good.