@EscapeVelo Ralph Lauren made a perfume called Tuxedo in the 80s that's been discontinued for years. It was a dry, sophisticated chypre, a genre of perfume that basically doesn't exist anymore due to IFRA regulations on oakmoss. I was a skinny teenager with braces and way too young for such a va-va-va-voom fragrance, but I loved it so much.
I am eager to try the Dusk.
Today I wore Bill Blass Nude which was authored by Sophia Grossman in 1991. It's another chypre but not so heavy on the oakmoss, and miraculously you can still get it for a song. It's pretty feminine with a pear note and aldehydes, but men's cologne has been very syrupy sweet for several years now and ppl might not even notice.
@Monsignor_DickFace@EscapeVelo At some point in the 90s white dudes largely stopped wearing perfume--excuse me, COLOGNE--and started using very strongly scented deodorant instead. Axe was the pioneer of this. I have super intense unfading memories of anything to do with smell so I remember this whole progression. I guess it was to give plausible deniability to vanity, not sure. The scents were not terrible, some were quite nice, but they of course used the cheapest synthetic aromachemicals and had to appeal to the lowest common denominator. I managed to steer my husband off of them to unscented deodorant and I outfitted him with a perfume wardrobe. He got interested in it and began to do his own testing and exploring like Escape Velo is doing, and now he buys his own.
@EscapeVelo@Monsignor_DickFace Now that I think about it, the marketing was truly pernicious, reaching inside every amerikwan home to instill the idea in wamman that being a housewife and mother was limiting their potential. A world of adventure awaited them just outside the door, where there were no screaming kids or drudgery and they would be thin, sexy, and desired by all. "there's nothing you can't do!" youtu.be/xMf6V3uLuhU?si=nIgGErg20dIDC8QYEySeYp
Jean Nate is a golden oldie from the 60s/70s, maybe the first perfume-marketed deodorant I remember. Those old commercials were hilarious, aimed square at wammans longing to be free of their dowdy housewife selves. I still use the dusting powder, it has a nice crisp dry scent.
@Cornelius Speaking only of DR3 conservatard McChristian liberals (bc I don't associate with any lefties anymore) they do a complex mental jiujitsu regarding blacks which boils down to prideful self-worship. They ascribe to blacks all the virtues they secretly think they themselves exemplify, especially intelligence, kindness, and being hard-working. So they look at anything a black does, no matter how stupid and violent, and simply declare the black to be a morally superior genius entrepreneur. The resulting surge of dopamine is so intoxicating that it erases any fear or negativity they might have felt, and ensures they will do anything to get another hit. Since they live as far as possible from blacks, and move down the freeway every 10 years to get away from them, they can continue in this transparently absurd lie for a long time. They don't require blacks to reciprocate because they generate their own feelings of goodness every time they lie.
@WashedOutGundamPilot The second photo is actually really nice and well-composed, and does a great job of conveying wordlessly what they're trying to sell. Probably boomers still see themselves as looking like this, ready to jet off to luxurious locales to consume next product, but they are elderly and obese now. These ppl are in their 50s and are solidly GenXers, my exact cohort. A lot of GenXers, if they achieved any career and financial success, threw in with the boomers mentally and culturally. That woman looks fantastic, that is exactly how I am trying to age. No hair dye and plastic surgery, keep your figure and wear stylish attractive age-appropriate subtly expensive clothes. Whoever styled this photo series is good.