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salty beautiful hangover
Annick Goutal's Eau du Fier is one of the more sharply polarizing perfumes I know. In fact, my own feelings about it have swung from one pole to the other. When I first received a sample of it some years ago, it had spilled a bit in the package. For weeks afterward, I kept sniffing my living room (where I had opened it) to make sure nothing was smoldering. Very intense stuff. I hated it.
But over time it worked its salty birchtar charms on me, and I grew to love it. Unfortunately, it was discontinued 5 or more years ago and is now nearly impossible to find. I was never able to talk myself into splurging on it because I'm afraid to wear it in public, not wanting to make anyone else call the fire department!
There are some other lovely scents out there that capture saltiness (my favorites being Miller Harris Fleur de Sel and The Different Company's Sel de Vetiver). But this captures a level of saltiness I never thought a perfume could. If I were writing a video to go with this, it would be an "adult" version of Katy Perry's "Last Friday Night": a swank party in the Hollywood Hills, lots of people in leather, a campfire, too much whiskey, some rough sex, and waking up in the morning to drink a gigantic glass of water with a large and slightly rueful smile.
Note: This is the first time I've worn it for 12 hours without showering. At 12 hours, it's a lovely, refined osmanthus.
And, on second thought, I just found an inexpensive used bottle on eBay - it didn't seem right to let this pass into "just a memory" yet.
But over time it worked its salty birchtar charms on me, and I grew to love it. Unfortunately, it was discontinued 5 or more years ago and is now nearly impossible to find. I was never able to talk myself into splurging on it because I'm afraid to wear it in public, not wanting to make anyone else call the fire department!
There are some other lovely scents out there that capture saltiness (my favorites being Miller Harris Fleur de Sel and The Different Company's Sel de Vetiver). But this captures a level of saltiness I never thought a perfume could. If I were writing a video to go with this, it would be an "adult" version of Katy Perry's "Last Friday Night": a swank party in the Hollywood Hills, lots of people in leather, a campfire, too much whiskey, some rough sex, and waking up in the morning to drink a gigantic glass of water with a large and slightly rueful smile.
Note: This is the first time I've worn it for 12 hours without showering. At 12 hours, it's a lovely, refined osmanthus.
And, on second thought, I just found an inexpensive used bottle on eBay - it didn't seem right to let this pass into "just a memory" yet.