As Diane Keaton once said :
something has to give.
In the meantime, someone was wearing The Perfume on a very crowded train and it did feel like someone stabbing me with daggers in the stomach each time I had a waft
We then got off at Kinshicho station in (‘north tokyo’? – so glad, my god so glad – we live in Kitakamakura) – and thus spake zarusthra – there just happened to be a Zara in the station on the way to Fresh Meat – SO GOOD; political, touching, poetic, beautiful actually – that I naturally couldn’t help but stop and verify with my own nostrils that this was indeed the very perfume under scrutiny –
and it was.
Bravissimo?
Seems Jo Malone is having a moment this holiday season.
Zara rocks for decently priced & fashionable fragrances- I have 3!
But some kind of TikTok phenomenon must have caterpulted this particular bile churner
– very clever, distinctive, but horrifying – into the biosphere
Yay Neil! Now I can rest in peace knowing what it really is. Mystery solved!
I just looked this up to see what scent it is a dupe for – apparently it’s Byredo La Tulipe!
Ah no wonder I detest it then but no – La Tulipe has a far gentler grace