MAKING SCENTS This is a review of a perfume: "If you travel at night on Europe's railways, near big stations you can sometimes see lights the size a teacup nestled between the rails, shining the deepest mystical blue-purple light through a filthy Fresnel glass. They appear to be permanently on, suggesting that the message they convey the train driver is an eternal truth. Since childhood I have fancied the notion that it may not be a trivial one like 'Buffers ahead' but something numinous and unrelated to duty, perhaps 'Life is beautiful' or some such. Sacrebleu has the exact feel of those lights, a low hum that may be eclipsed by diurnal clamor but rules supreme when, at 3 a.m., you know you're looking into your true love's eyes even though you can't see them." [Slate]
Launching a perfume isn't enough. P. Diddy had to launch an inane rivalry too. To promote his Unforgivable Woman scent, P. Diddy picked a fight:
I send out a challenge … I challenge all of my female counterparts that have fragrances … that my fragrance is better than theirs. I’m a man and I know how women should smell!
What woman would want to smell they way a man like P. Diddy thinks a woman should smell?
Mariah Carey, who has her own perfume, M, to promote, took up the challenge.
