Women and perfumes: what unites them
When Marilyn Monroe was asked, what she wears for the night, she answered: “Chanel number 5”. It is hardly possible to imagine a man giving such an answer: “No, I wear nothing, just a few drops of eau de cologne…” Probably, not eau de cologne, but a proper eau de toilette, but still – one can not compare the role, perfume plays in the life of a woman with that in the life of a man.
Women choose perfumes carefully and thoughtfully. A woman can change her scent preferences according to the place she is in and according to the time of the day, she takes her age and mood into consideration and makes experiments with perfumes, she discusses perfumes with friends and spends a huge part of her incomes on perfume, she can even give up a meal or a dress for her to buy a bottle of perfume.
Women have perfumes for both working days and holidays. A woman wears different scents for business meetings and romantic dates, for a walk around the city and for a visit to a restaurant. However, in the 17th century Baltsasar Grassian warned women: “Who smell strongly – smells badly”. Still, modern day women seem to have learned the lesson of how to apply perfume: with the tips of your fingers, on the back of the hand, behind the ears, a touch at the back of the head and on the temples. This is enough to create an airy wave of a touching, magical aroma. This is not by chance, that an extremely popular film, that was filmed twice (starring Vittorio Gassman and Al Pachino correspondingly) was named “Scent of a woman”. Certainly it couldn’t be the scent of a man – the scent of tobacco, leather and alcohol.
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