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Piarara
What do Japanese rock musicians smell like?
Tokyo, 2014.
A girlfriend and I have been on the road in the Japanese underground music scene for 15 years. We hear crazy rock bands of which 99.9% of the Japanese themselves have never heard of anything. During our trips to Japan we visit concerts, sometimes there are also Meet&Greets with the musicians. In 2014 we were big fans of a certain band whose tour we followed from one musty Japanese club to another for over a month.
The quite attractive singer of said rock band always smelled as if he had bathed in a certain scent. One smelled him already from afar and we two girls totally took a liking to this man and consequently also to this scent. (Working title of this comment was also "Duft-Groupies")
We always knew when the concert was about to begin, even when the curtain was still closed. You just smelled the singer when he entered the stage. ("Ah, here we go, XY is already on stage, I can smell him")
When we strolled through the streets of Tokyo off the beaten track, sometimes the same scent blew into our noses and let us drive around in shock. "Where is he? Is he here somewhere?" ("3 miles against the wind" was another working title.)
That was quite nerve-racking, because apparently several Japanese men owned this smell or at least one which smelled quite similarly. But at least he could have been nearby.
Both of us had no idea about scents and men's perfumes, but we wanted to know what exactly this man smelled like. So we spent hours in perfumeries and tested men's fragrances to find exactly that. Until we came across Chanel Platinum Egoiste. That was the scent!
And the name couldn't have been more fitting. In general, it is considered rude in Japan to wear perfumes that are too strong. Hardly anything is more sacred to the Japanese than courtesy. There you take care of your fellow human beings and try to attract as little attention as possible. And all the more you don't want to force a scent on someone that the other person might not even want to smell?! Japanese therefore rarely smell strongly of perfume.
And yet, you can smell this one scent from time to time on the street or in bars. But only the "rebels" wear it. Only the "egoists" who don't care if you can smell them for miles.
I didn't know the scent before, or I never noticed it, but it became a symbol for rebellious Japanese and Japanese rock stars. By the way, many musicians still wear it in this scene, even today I smell it again and again in the concert halls.
It is a fragrance that smells pure and fresh to me (something that Japanese people also value) as well as spicy, warm and for me even slightly sweet and wicked. It is damn hard for me to describe this scent.
I know that's not very helpful, but I think a lot has been written about this classic anyway. I just wanted to share my story with you, which I associate with this fragrance, because it was also the first men's fragrance that moved me.
In this country I hardly smell it, but sometimes I spray it on a handkerchief in the drugstore and feel as if I am standing in a small musty concert hall in the basement of Tokyo. I still like the fragrance very much.
Funfact on the side: Meanwhile I am having fun to sniff inconspicuously which perfumes the members of my favourite bands wear during autograph sessions. Some also announce this in interviews. Many wear women's perfumes like Gucci Guilty.
A girlfriend and I have been on the road in the Japanese underground music scene for 15 years. We hear crazy rock bands of which 99.9% of the Japanese themselves have never heard of anything. During our trips to Japan we visit concerts, sometimes there are also Meet&Greets with the musicians. In 2014 we were big fans of a certain band whose tour we followed from one musty Japanese club to another for over a month.
The quite attractive singer of said rock band always smelled as if he had bathed in a certain scent. One smelled him already from afar and we two girls totally took a liking to this man and consequently also to this scent. (Working title of this comment was also "Duft-Groupies")
We always knew when the concert was about to begin, even when the curtain was still closed. You just smelled the singer when he entered the stage. ("Ah, here we go, XY is already on stage, I can smell him")
When we strolled through the streets of Tokyo off the beaten track, sometimes the same scent blew into our noses and let us drive around in shock. "Where is he? Is he here somewhere?" ("3 miles against the wind" was another working title.)
That was quite nerve-racking, because apparently several Japanese men owned this smell or at least one which smelled quite similarly. But at least he could have been nearby.
Both of us had no idea about scents and men's perfumes, but we wanted to know what exactly this man smelled like. So we spent hours in perfumeries and tested men's fragrances to find exactly that. Until we came across Chanel Platinum Egoiste. That was the scent!
And the name couldn't have been more fitting. In general, it is considered rude in Japan to wear perfumes that are too strong. Hardly anything is more sacred to the Japanese than courtesy. There you take care of your fellow human beings and try to attract as little attention as possible. And all the more you don't want to force a scent on someone that the other person might not even want to smell?! Japanese therefore rarely smell strongly of perfume.
And yet, you can smell this one scent from time to time on the street or in bars. But only the "rebels" wear it. Only the "egoists" who don't care if you can smell them for miles.
I didn't know the scent before, or I never noticed it, but it became a symbol for rebellious Japanese and Japanese rock stars. By the way, many musicians still wear it in this scene, even today I smell it again and again in the concert halls.
It is a fragrance that smells pure and fresh to me (something that Japanese people also value) as well as spicy, warm and for me even slightly sweet and wicked. It is damn hard for me to describe this scent.
I know that's not very helpful, but I think a lot has been written about this classic anyway. I just wanted to share my story with you, which I associate with this fragrance, because it was also the first men's fragrance that moved me.
In this country I hardly smell it, but sometimes I spray it on a handkerchief in the drugstore and feel as if I am standing in a small musty concert hall in the basement of Tokyo. I still like the fragrance very much.
Funfact on the side: Meanwhile I am having fun to sniff inconspicuously which perfumes the members of my favourite bands wear during autograph sessions. Some also announce this in interviews. Many wear women's perfumes like Gucci Guilty.
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