05/12/2021
BrianBuchanan
355 Reviews
BrianBuchanan
2
Howard Cunningham or The Fonz?
Hey Johnny, what are you rebelling against?
What have you got?
Well, how about wing collared safari jackets and nylon slacks? In The Wild One (1953) and more so in Rebel without a Cause (1955) you can see the tension between conformist menswear and the new rebellious style of white T shirt and black leather jacket.
There weren't so many masculines in the fifties, and the two stars of the decade were Pino Sylvestre and Chanel pour Monsieur (both 1955, and both very crisp). In the light of this it's possible that Monsieur Lubin was aimed at an emerging youth market who wanted something more casual than the buttoned down formality of their fathers. But then again, if you dressed like your dad, why not smell like him too?
With his deep and rather sweet brown odour of ambergris woods and leather, it's a good question whether Monsieur Lubin would have shaded to a brown suit, or dressed in T shirt and biker jacket.
Possibly it was a bit of both. The sweet brown hum feels somewhat avuncular, and you could imagine Monsieur L settling down with his pipe and slippers.
But then there's the leather baseline. Would that be his shoes perhaps, or something more outré?
Monsieur Lubin is a slight enigma. It's clearly of another era - and that makes it harder to read the codes. It starts off thick and sweet and rather shapeless, and then develops a bitter leathery note. It strikes me as a half way house. Trying to be all things to all men, it ends up as a brown study, the kind of thing you find in M7 but rather more basic than that - and without any oud, fake or otherwise.
The main thing I'd say is; just as dads don't smoke pipes anymore, it's good that masculines have progressed from this type of thing.
What have you got?
Well, how about wing collared safari jackets and nylon slacks? In The Wild One (1953) and more so in Rebel without a Cause (1955) you can see the tension between conformist menswear and the new rebellious style of white T shirt and black leather jacket.
There weren't so many masculines in the fifties, and the two stars of the decade were Pino Sylvestre and Chanel pour Monsieur (both 1955, and both very crisp). In the light of this it's possible that Monsieur Lubin was aimed at an emerging youth market who wanted something more casual than the buttoned down formality of their fathers. But then again, if you dressed like your dad, why not smell like him too?
With his deep and rather sweet brown odour of ambergris woods and leather, it's a good question whether Monsieur Lubin would have shaded to a brown suit, or dressed in T shirt and biker jacket.
Possibly it was a bit of both. The sweet brown hum feels somewhat avuncular, and you could imagine Monsieur L settling down with his pipe and slippers.
But then there's the leather baseline. Would that be his shoes perhaps, or something more outré?
Monsieur Lubin is a slight enigma. It's clearly of another era - and that makes it harder to read the codes. It starts off thick and sweet and rather shapeless, and then develops a bitter leathery note. It strikes me as a half way house. Trying to be all things to all men, it ends up as a brown study, the kind of thing you find in M7 but rather more basic than that - and without any oud, fake or otherwise.
The main thing I'd say is; just as dads don't smoke pipes anymore, it's good that masculines have progressed from this type of thing.
