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The Stinkiest of All Possible Perfumes?
Estée Lauder YOUTH DEW continues to confound me. I should have written it off long ago as an impossibly unwearable, completely alienating scent perfect for radiating "don't touch me" to anyone who comes within 100 meters. Honestly, it stinks. Wear this perfume in public in tattered clothes and with disheveled hair, and I can nearly guarantee that you will be mistaken for a homeless person.
Perversely, I continue to re-test this perfume, however, despite the fact that I consistently experience precisely the same ugliness every time I wear it. Perhaps I am wondering whether wearing YOUTH DEW is supposed to be a character-building experience rather like running up Pikes Peak, or fasting for a week, or participating in the Finnish International Sauna Championship, during which contestants have been known to experience nasal passage and cranial bleeding.
So maybe the point is that after the pain comes the endorphin rush of pleasure. Unfortunately, I have never achieved that moment of deliverance in my wearings of YOUTH DEW. Instead, I invariably head off to take a hot bath, as I intend right now to do.
Perversely, I continue to re-test this perfume, however, despite the fact that I consistently experience precisely the same ugliness every time I wear it. Perhaps I am wondering whether wearing YOUTH DEW is supposed to be a character-building experience rather like running up Pikes Peak, or fasting for a week, or participating in the Finnish International Sauna Championship, during which contestants have been known to experience nasal passage and cranial bleeding.
So maybe the point is that after the pain comes the endorphin rush of pleasure. Unfortunately, I have never achieved that moment of deliverance in my wearings of YOUTH DEW. Instead, I invariably head off to take a hot bath, as I intend right now to do.
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When I once wore it a co-worker said, "It smells like incense here." Incense is a lot better than "unwashed" :-)