/fa/ - Fashion

>>12684888
Not that anon, but I sincerely believe that what we label "normie pleb scents" are more often than not good enough for the general public. They're nice enough to elicit a compliment and a good comment from the average person on the street who isn't a perfume head. And that's really enough enjoyment for some people.

On the other hand, some like me enjoy "difficult" and often off-putting scents. They could be intellectual and interesting, but they often turn people away and disgust them. Are they "good" fragrances then? I certainly enjoy them.

What I'm trying to get at is that there are so many reasons people like some fragrances, and there are so many ways to get enjoyment out of them. And all of them are equally valid.

I think a quote from Rei is fitting here: "You buy other clothes to please others. Commes des garçons is a gift to oneself"

Ps. A lot of the fragrances we disparage a lot here have their rightful place in the hallmarks of perfumery. It's a lot more subjective than we, even self confessed fragrance lovers, think. Acqua di Gio is a masterpiece of fragrance and was a breakthrough when it was made, because the ideal freshness, transparent and immaterial, but radiating with a strong sillage, was pushed in a new dimension adding the new watery elements because water itself became available for perfumers- a large and new use of Calone in large quantity, but many other notes which play a major role in the transparent green freshness. They were all discovered by Chuit Naef (now Firmenich) since early 1900's when the company started to investigate the freshness and the "watery transparent" element present in every plant.