Club de Nuit Intense Man Armaf Eau de Toilette
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Napoleon le petit
"Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historical facts and persons occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the one time as a great tragedy, the other time as a lumpen farce."
- Karl Marx: The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
I have written elsewhere of the tragic demise of Aventus. However, to give a little context to the above quote: Charles Louis Napoléon Bonaparte, also known as Napoléon III, was nephew of the primordial Aventus ox Bonaparte himself. He ruled France in the second half of the 19th century and his contemporaries were rarely timid in their disdain for him. The above text refers to him as "farce" and Victor Hugo titled him "Napoléon le petit" in reference to his mental greetings juxtaposed with Napoléon's diminutive stature. The subject of infamy is primarily his military debacles in the colonies and against Prussia. But he was also generally regarded as pompous and incompetent.
Now why the comparison? CDNIM is also rather of the big-headed kind. He's loud, his projection blasts walls and it's immediately clear what he's trying to be - an Aventus on steroids. He lacks actual depth and finesse in the process. A pungent plastic wood synthetic loiters in the base and the rest of the citrus smoke bomb turns out to be mush. Undifferentiated, brute and somehow rebellious.
None of this is necessarily bad, though. The real farce is that I had to read and hear so often now, to have it here with an Aventus killer. The performance may be good, but it only deceives about his olfactory incompleteness. Where is the pineapple, blackcurrant or green apple? I wouldn't even mind synthetic substitutions for natural oils, but what's not there is badly not there. But hey, at least it's cheap...
- Karl Marx: The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
I have written elsewhere of the tragic demise of Aventus. However, to give a little context to the above quote: Charles Louis Napoléon Bonaparte, also known as Napoléon III, was nephew of the primordial Aventus ox Bonaparte himself. He ruled France in the second half of the 19th century and his contemporaries were rarely timid in their disdain for him. The above text refers to him as "farce" and Victor Hugo titled him "Napoléon le petit" in reference to his mental greetings juxtaposed with Napoléon's diminutive stature. The subject of infamy is primarily his military debacles in the colonies and against Prussia. But he was also generally regarded as pompous and incompetent.
Now why the comparison? CDNIM is also rather of the big-headed kind. He's loud, his projection blasts walls and it's immediately clear what he's trying to be - an Aventus on steroids. He lacks actual depth and finesse in the process. A pungent plastic wood synthetic loiters in the base and the rest of the citrus smoke bomb turns out to be mush. Undifferentiated, brute and somehow rebellious.
None of this is necessarily bad, though. The real farce is that I had to read and hear so often now, to have it here with an Aventus killer. The performance may be good, but it only deceives about his olfactory incompleteness. Where is the pineapple, blackcurrant or green apple? I wouldn't even mind synthetic substitutions for natural oils, but what's not there is badly not there. But hey, at least it's cheap...
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