Comments on: ‘My Most Important Ally’ – Chandler Burr On Dior https://persolaise.com/2014/11/my-most-important-ally-chandler-burr-on.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=my-most-important-ally-chandler-burr-on Independent perfume reviews and thoughts on the world of scent from a multi award winning writer Mon, 06 Jan 2020 16:16:55 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 By: persolaise https://persolaise.com/2014/11/my-most-important-ally-chandler-burr-on.html#comment-6221 Tue, 18 Nov 2014 21:22:42 +0000 http://box5880.temp.domains/~persolai/my-most-important-ally-chandler-burr-on/#comment-6221 In reply to Nathan.

Nathan, thanks very much for your comment and for your kind words about my blog.

We could talk for hours about the subject of gender in perfume. I remember when Poison was released in Dubai in the mid 80s, the Emirati men wore it just as much as the women did.

]]> By: Nathan https://persolaise.com/2014/11/my-most-important-ally-chandler-burr-on.html#comment-6220 Tue, 18 Nov 2014 12:35:23 +0000 http://box5880.temp.domains/~persolai/my-most-important-ally-chandler-burr-on/#comment-6220 Thanks for the interview, you posed some good questions.

Have to agree with you on the subject of perfume gender: only a few days ago a friend told me how she used to love wearing Habit Rouge when she was younger (must have been in the early eighties).

I'm not knowledgeable enough to know of many other possibly candidates but I used to wear Lagerfeld cologne in the eighties and that was definitely encroaching on typical 'feminine' territory. Much more so than Dior Homme, in my opinion.

P.S. Your blog is really interesting and nicely written, well done!

]]> By: persolaise https://persolaise.com/2014/11/my-most-important-ally-chandler-burr-on.html#comment-6219 Mon, 17 Nov 2014 18:13:35 +0000 http://box5880.temp.domains/~persolai/my-most-important-ally-chandler-burr-on/#comment-6219 In reply to Anonymous.

Anon, thanks for stopping by.

Yes, I wondered if anyone might pick up on Burr's take on Miss Dior. For one thing, I'm not sure how the 'garden' aspect squares up with the leather note.

As for gender-bending, I take your point about Joop! But I'd say we could go back even further to Habit Rouge… and perhaps further still…

Finally, thanks for the CeCe/ZZ correction. Much appreciated 🙂

]]> By: Anonymous https://persolaise.com/2014/11/my-most-important-ally-chandler-burr-on.html#comment-6218 Mon, 17 Nov 2014 15:20:35 +0000 http://box5880.temp.domains/~persolai/my-most-important-ally-chandler-burr-on/#comment-6218 Very interesting read, thanks for sharing this bit. I'm surprised Miss Dior is supposed to be 'representational'. I honestly cannot see that. I do see it related to Vol de Nuit, for one – and as such definitely agree that it wasn't revolutionary or brave. To me the first gender bender fragrance was actually Joop! (1989) – an intensely sweet and sultry floriental, launched at the very start of the nineties, which saw the rise of the (genderbending) metrosexual. Gender is indeed a social construct, which makes it very real in a social sense. Fashion and – to a lesser extent – perfumery have not just gone along with it, by and large, but have been instrumental in constructing and defining it. As a side note, it's ZZ Packer not CeCe.

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