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Stupid for a while
In the middle of the 2000s I was what you would call a 'young professional' today - happy to finally get out of university and to have 'arrived in (professional) life': regular daily routine and income, suit, job ticket and now and then taxi included. And as much as I appreciated everything I had wanted for so long, I missed 'my wild 90s'. And sometimes on Sunday afternoons I listened to Blank & Jones and watched a few old episodes of Friends on DVD - and in weak moments I thought about not wiping the corridor again in sponge technique terracotta colors, at least one wall. And in very weak moments I thought of Beyond Paradíse for Men by Estée Lauder.
Estée Lauder's Pleasures for Men (with the matte grey lid) had been 'my' fragrance in the 90s - metallically fresh and youthfully glue-sweet - it had been Blank & Jones and Friends and terracotta-wiped walls in the hallway with me. His and my time together ended when he finished his studies and moved to another city, but I was not at all averse to choosing a potential successor 'from the same stable'. And as much as I loved to remember my time with Pleasures for Men back then - and still do - as much as I still like to listen to Blank & Jones every now and then and watch one or two episodes of Friends on Sunday afternoons - I'm still glad I never bought Beyond Paradíse for Men.
His character is still completely that of the 90s - probably that's why the longing number worked so well back then. Beyond Paradíse for Men is sweet metallic - even sweeter and more metallic than Pleasures for Men was. It conveys androgynous good humour in almost psychedelic-looking cheerfulness: floral and colourful, fruity and loud, and almost clownishly tropical and Caribbean, like in a comic strip, with the subtlety and impact of an alcopop, which had been so popular in the 90s: Bacardi Breezer, Sierra Slammer, Smirnoff Ice. In 2004 his time was over, but some indecisive people are trying to jump on every trend at the very last moment. Estée Lauder's Beyond Paradíse for Men was already 'beyond everything' back then
Conclusion: stupid for a while. The wrong fragrance at the wrong time - today much more than in the mid-00s. Good that I resisted him then. Just like the terracotta sponge-wiped wall.
Estée Lauder's Pleasures for Men (with the matte grey lid) had been 'my' fragrance in the 90s - metallically fresh and youthfully glue-sweet - it had been Blank & Jones and Friends and terracotta-wiped walls in the hallway with me. His and my time together ended when he finished his studies and moved to another city, but I was not at all averse to choosing a potential successor 'from the same stable'. And as much as I loved to remember my time with Pleasures for Men back then - and still do - as much as I still like to listen to Blank & Jones every now and then and watch one or two episodes of Friends on Sunday afternoons - I'm still glad I never bought Beyond Paradíse for Men.
His character is still completely that of the 90s - probably that's why the longing number worked so well back then. Beyond Paradíse for Men is sweet metallic - even sweeter and more metallic than Pleasures for Men was. It conveys androgynous good humour in almost psychedelic-looking cheerfulness: floral and colourful, fruity and loud, and almost clownishly tropical and Caribbean, like in a comic strip, with the subtlety and impact of an alcopop, which had been so popular in the 90s: Bacardi Breezer, Sierra Slammer, Smirnoff Ice. In 2004 his time was over, but some indecisive people are trying to jump on every trend at the very last moment. Estée Lauder's Beyond Paradíse for Men was already 'beyond everything' back then
Conclusion: stupid for a while. The wrong fragrance at the wrong time - today much more than in the mid-00s. Good that I resisted him then. Just like the terracotta sponge-wiped wall.
