03/15/2015

Exciter76
34 Reviews

Exciter76
6
A vixen in conservative clothing (fools no one)
I was working on a project, wearing Bal à Versailles, and listening to my iTunes playlist. While I was hitting a wall with my project, Ryan Adams’ “Stay with Me” came on. I stopped looking blankly at my computer screen, closed my eyes, and inhaled as the song played. I realized at that very moment both the song and the scent were very much alike: both plainly convey deep, unchaste desires without being vulgar and both works of art have a way of getting stuck in one’s mind, like an earworm.
Bal à Versailles is the scent of a wanton woman or a virile man. It’s not blatantly sexual or perverse (i.e., this isn’t ELdO’s Secretions Magnifiques) but there is an underlying smell that is carnal. Where a perfume like Glow alludes to a clean, naked body, BàV alludes to a recently dressed body after having, eh, relations. All the classic perfume elements are present--flowers, incense, and such--but these things act to cover (or accentuate) what’s libidinous. Some call it dirty panties, others call it skanky; they’re different names for the same sexual beast.
This is not an easy scent and it isn’t for the faint of heart. Some on the Internet have mentioned Mad Men’s Joan Holloway--this is certainly Ms. Holloway’s bottled essence. It’s pure beauty and sex and joy and… I could go on. There is no reading between the lines with BàV, much like Ryan Adams’ song. Neither art pieces were created for prudes.
Bal à Versailles is the scent of a wanton woman or a virile man. It’s not blatantly sexual or perverse (i.e., this isn’t ELdO’s Secretions Magnifiques) but there is an underlying smell that is carnal. Where a perfume like Glow alludes to a clean, naked body, BàV alludes to a recently dressed body after having, eh, relations. All the classic perfume elements are present--flowers, incense, and such--but these things act to cover (or accentuate) what’s libidinous. Some call it dirty panties, others call it skanky; they’re different names for the same sexual beast.
This is not an easy scent and it isn’t for the faint of heart. Some on the Internet have mentioned Mad Men’s Joan Holloway--this is certainly Ms. Holloway’s bottled essence. It’s pure beauty and sex and joy and… I could go on. There is no reading between the lines with BàV, much like Ryan Adams’ song. Neither art pieces were created for prudes.
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