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Have you guys listened to the American Perfumer podcast? It is pretty good and new. Some guy in Tennessee that owns a shop interviews American Perfumers. I find him kind of annoying, but it is interesting to hear from these people. There's an interview with Christopher Brosius. Woooooof, kind of the most pretentious person on the planet. It was hard to listen to.
I've had YSL Rive Gauche on my mind today, so I just popped out of the shower and gave it a couple of sprays on my neck and inner elbows. It's a great fragrance, and what makes it great is how closely it resembles a typical shaving foam. I ditched the canned garbage close to 5 years ago when I got into wet shaving, but I can't say canned goo smells terrible.
Now obviously, comparing Rive Gauche to cheap drugstore shaving gel is a bit of an insult to it, but it doesn't smell like a high quality cream or soap either. The fragrance's generic shaving product smell is kind of why people love it, and it's strange how such a generic scent profile has become so revered and sought after by fragrance enthusiasts. It's also interesting how nobody has replicated something similar. Of course, the "barbershop" fragrance style has been done to death and there are many interpretations of it, but nothing like Rive Gauche exists on the market.
I don't wear it very often at all nowadays because it's so rare, but in all honestly, I kinda think it's not all that special. It is nice to be wearing a fragrance that smells extraordinarily similar to shaving foam, but this kind of shaving foam is the lowest common denominator. If I were to compare it to other shaving soaps I have, then I'd say a soap like Tabac is a much more distinct aroma with tons of character.
I have come to believe that Rive Gauche is a victim of hype, and the discontinuation exacerbated that, and I'm talking about the vintage bottle here. I'm lucky to have purchased this dirt cheap in Walmart back in 2013, so I'll hold on to it forever, but my reassessment of it has put things into perspective.
FTFY. Jacques Polge, the nose behind both, has said that Egoiste is his favorite creation. I've loved it for over two decades. Sadly, my bottle is running out and the reformulation is not nearly as good.antaeusEgoiste is the best fragrance ever created