Monday 19th June : here we go!

I had been resisting writing a perfume blog for the longest time. Since 2005, the year of the perfume blog boom, many have appeared, some of them actually very good. I can't even keep up with them! So another one seemed redundant. However the urge has caught up with me and here I am musing about that most elusive of pleasures. Let's see where it takes me.

In order to make this more challenging and to go through my sample drawers in the process, I decided to give a theme for the week.

The theme of the week is Mythological/fictional heroes and places.

So I opted for my sample of Chanel Antaeus.
This is a man's scent and it is full of the concetrated essence of a clean man's sweat. Very classy and rich fragrance : maybe a bit too rich for the weather we're having.

Olfactory pyramid (according to Basenotes)

Top Notes
Clary Sage, Myrtle

Middle Notes
Patchouli, Sandalwood

Base Notes
Labdanum, Beeswax Absolute

Antaeus was of course a mythological hero, from classical history : one of the adversaries of Hercules, who gained his strength from the mother Gaia (earth).

http://library.thinkquest.org/26264/inhabi...res/site001.htm
http://ancienthistory.about.com/cs/hercule...e/p/antaeus.htm

It is also very interesting that it is one of the personages that Dante and Virgilio encounter in Dante's Inferno
http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/ashp/dali...o31_antaeus.htm


However the Chanel ad for this reminds us also of the imagery for the hero Atlas ( the one who carried Earth on his shoulders - also an adversary of Hercules on his way to the Garden of Hesperides).
image from Psine.net
Or if the bottle is meant to represent the mythological hero, then the man carrying the scent is the real hero who manages to pull it off the ground and into the realm of elegance. Cool !

Nice to see your new perfume blog! I look forward to reading your reviews and musings.
IrisLA () - 20 06 06

Good for you! You go girl!
Lynne Tyson () - 20 06 06

Congrats on your new perfume blog! I can already see the uniqueness of it. Looking foward to
golily () - 21 06 06

What a fun, informative read! I can't wait to see what great things you do with your new blog! ;)
oiseau - 22 06 06

An excellent idea! In fact, you reminded me that I really ought to write a review about a lovely fragrance that came to me in sample form thanks to your good self!

I look forward to reading more on your olfactory musings.

Gem.
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