Offering a dozen red roses on Valentine’s Day might be the most classic gesture in the book, but is it time to move beyond? The intimate touch of a special fragrance, offered or worn for a partner’s delight will assuredly create some cherished memories for a while to follow and bond you together even closer. And what a perfect accompaniment to the bedroom eyes and the sultry lips too! But the question is: How possibly pick up something successful in such a confusing labyrinth of hundreds of releases that seem to beckon you with either iterations of Robert Byrnes’ romantic verse, snares of guile and seduction or right-out-of-the-shower sexiness? Luckily for you, we handpicked a few top-drawer choices to make matters easier and classified them by type. The type which you find yourself or your mate falling into, or more interestingly still, the type you’d like to emulate. What fun would that role-playing inspire!
Published By Elena Vosnaki
on January 21st, 2010 20:49
Embracing our sensual side is always good exercise in our technologically terse epoch. Older generations used to touch more instead of texting and mailing, but you’ve got to work with what you have, don’t you. To inject a little more sensuality in life, especially for Valentine’s Day Sensuous by Estee Lauder proclaims its love for everything tactile, smooth, and caressing. Secret Obsession by Calvin Klein has an unusual spicy formula that acts as a kick for further communication.
She watches all the shows on style.com, she buys all the It items of the season. Time to give her the most talked about bottle: Lola by Marc Jacobs. The scent inside is so-lates- thing it will have her sigh with delight and rush to show off to all her friends.
Innocent by Thierry Mugler is sweet as a macaroon, playful like a butterfly’s wing and girlish like Alice in Wonderland. If you’re a girly girl all the way you will probably love this almost edible confection of a scent in shades of light blue under a starred cap.
Although rose is considered the flower of romance, tuberose is perhaps the most orgiastic one, its multiple facets exhibiting a daring sexuality that feel downright intimidating. Fracas by Robert Piguet is the classic reference tuberose, a tuberose so creamy and so outwardly bombastic it demands a grand personality, a bursting at the seams femme to carry it off. But if it fits, oh the devastation it will bring to the hearts of her many victims!
Contrary to received wisdom, there is nothing wrong with being girl-next-door. It’s actually the preferred category of woman partner type for the majority of interviewed US men according to a survey! Brit by Burberry has all the elements of being a snuggle fit: Recognizable brand, cute plaid bottle and a scent that is warm and vanilla sweet but not too much, like the girl who knows how to give you a push when you criticize her favorite baseball team sitting on the couch.
Some women exude a natural attractant quality drawing men the way colorful petals draw pollinating insects. Hypnotic Poison by Dior is extremely friendly despite the wicked name, with its almond and soft powder touch; it just asks to be taken to the back of a car and be nibbled on for hours on end.
You love the feel of suede, the fluffly sand of the seashore, the murmur of a brook in the countryside and sweet nothings whispered in your ear. The lightly vanillic skin-like L’Eau Ambrée by Prada was made for you
She works the Birkin bag like no one else, chooses Jimmy Choo heels to adorn her supple legs and has expensive (real) jewelry in her small vault alongside the family heirlooms which she picks with delight whenever an evening out is scheduled. 24 Faubourg by Hermes is her special fragrance and its armful of honeyed, ambery orange blossom will captivate her with its luxuriousness oozing from every pore.
Citrus scents are considered refreshing and brainy, not exactly the image you had in mind for Valentine’s Day. Fruity ones are young and upbeat. Now join the two at the umbilical cord as Un Jardin sur le Nil by Hermes reinvents both, taking us to an unforgettable journey at Aswan where the green mangoes meet the lull of the sycamore trees. The fact that it can be shared with your man is extra brownie points.
