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I don't like artificially sweet florals, fruity florientals, etc., because they lack depth and presence. These are often marketed as "feminine" and so I suppose in this way they'd be too "feminine" for me.
I"m being tongue-in-cheek with the "it's too feminine for you manly men," but I only mean to challenge SFers to expand their horizons; truly you'll find that if you took the labels off it would be impossible to define what means "feminine" and what means "masculine" except for advertising (indeed, I'd be curious how one could explain without recourse to marketing or simple bias how a sweet bergamot note is more "masculine" than an indolic jasmine)
As well, getting one's self off the "gender" bias of scents would see them making some all around better fragrance choices; a man who wears citrus scents might be surprised how much he likes a floral like Chamade or Hiris. A fan of Egoiste might surprise himself how much he enjoys Samsara or Shalimar. One who wears Tom Ford might be surprised at a classic Chypre like MIss Dior or Givenchy III.
Sure, L'interdit or Chanel no. 5 might be tougher sells... but I'd say again that's mostly because of that initial blast of aldehydes. WHen they wear off (quite quickly) you are left with a nice, ambery, woody base with musk that is no more "feminine" than (again) Egoiste, JPG Le Male, etc.
I don't like artificially sweet florals, fruity florientals, etc., because they lack depth and presence. These are often marketed as "feminine" and so I suppose in this way they'd be too "feminine" for me.
I"m being tongue-in-cheek with the "it's too feminine for you manly men," but I only mean to challenge SFers to expand their horizons; truly you'll find that if you took the labels off it would be impossible to define what means "feminine" and what means "masculine" except for advertising (indeed, I'd be curious how one could explain without recourse to marketing or simple bias how a sweet bergamot note is more "masculine" than an indolic jasmine)
As well, getting one's self off the "gender" bias of scents would see them making some all around better fragrance choices; a man who wears citrus scents might be surprised how much he likes a floral like Chamade or Hiris. A fan of Egoiste might surprise himself how much he enjoys Samsara or Shalimar. One who wears Tom Ford might be surprised at a classic Chypre like MIss Dior or Givenchy III.
Sure, L'interdit or Chanel no. 5 might be tougher sells... but I'd say again that's mostly because of that initial blast of aldehydes. WHen they wear off (quite quickly) you are left with a nice, ambery, woody base with musk that is no more "feminine" than (again) Egoiste, JPG Le Male, etc.
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