"Perfumes" [.]

The authors often ply us with cliches, but snappily.

• All pleasure is connected, and the endless ride we take between disappointment and satisfaction and back again is largely what keeps us interested in life.
• Love, of course, is personal (but best when deserved.)
• ... giving my love for it the fraught significance of a secret affair.
• The vanity of ordinary grown men.. is now frittered away largely on looking nearly the same as everyone else but at different price points with subtle differences.
• Being a guy is not always pleasant, but at least, like balding and belching, it does not require much work.
• Nothing is harder to do one the cheap than diffuse, soft-focus luxury.

My to-try list: 
Aqua Allegoria Pamplelune (Guelain)  'glowing grapefruit'
Aromatics Elixir (Clinique) 'woody floral'
Beyond Paradise (Estee Lauder) 'symphonic floral' / Men 'green woody'
Le Feu d'Issey (Issey Miyake) milky rose
L'Heure Bleue (Guerlain)
Jicky (Guerlain)
Mitsouko (Guerlain)
Nahema (Guerlain)  virtual rose
Osmanthe Yunnan (Hermes) milky tea
Pleasures (Estee Lauder) snowy floral , clean all day
Rive Gauche (Yves Saint Laurent)  reference rose
Tocade (Rochas) rose vanilla
Tommy Girl (Tommy Hilfiger) * tea floral

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