we know, the perfumista is a free thinker smell. He plays with the codes male / female, he travels through time in sniffing bottles of vintage, he laughed uproariously at the small knot of Ricci Ricci and assumes no complex experiment "perfumes of old" when he takes the subway rush hours. But in situations like our workplace, we sometimes agree not to display our olfactory tastes the most outlandish (even under the pretext that it's invisible!). Indeed, like it or not, image matters a lot office, and even you would not dare come to work in your old fluorescent tracksuit, veterinary 90s (both lightweight and comfortable it may be), and you could not really come to work having emptied a bottle of Dans Tes arm on you. Whether visual or olfactory, avoid any offset any lack of taste that can attract too much attention to yourself, because here we do not ask you to differentiate yourself, be original or ... Just be impeccable. And flawless.
careful, you are not asked, however, not be a sheep, either ... Mister Phoebus you how to stand out olfactory office, discreetly and effectively.
But before proceeding on a case by case, it is necessary to revisit some fundamental
- All perfumes are too strong, too wealthy, too spicy brief. .. all the "too" should be eliminated. For who said polarization overdose said, gold is sought here unanimously. Discretion is essential.
- Then, pay attention to the seasons and temperature changes ... Useless to fight "fire with fire" in summer to discover new facets of your favorite Shalimar, again, do not try to be original, keep all your experiments for the weekend to avoid unpleasant surprises. Here you have to play with good value! So in summer, choose only colognes, fresh water ... (Or even not wearing anything at all).
- Finally, I think it's fashionable not to choose the best sellers of the mainstream to work because they are too easily recognizable and evocative (and will probably already chosen by your colleagues!). Remember that you must well keep your identity perfumista even under muzzle!
We keep all this in mind ... and it begins with the ladies:
You are a young-framework-that-has-to-the future . You dress so elegant but strict, pleated trousers no secrets for you, you avoid necklines, loose hair and makeup, anything that could remind too obvious to those around you that you're a masculine woman. For it must be confessed, to advance this medium, you must have an iron fist, and no kid gloves! Thus, the only accessories that allow you to betray your femininity are heels (but small, heels) and your perfume. At the coffee during the break, you nibble nervously on the edge of your plastic cup while Cindy, the secretary discolored, made everyone laugh by recounting his misadventures of the weekend. But you do not listen, you jealous in silence the floral-fruity evaporating from her cleavage and Irad any the room when she moves, even to cover the banal wake your Coco Mademoiselle. You follow the trail, nose tucked in the corridors, but not for the world You would compliment her and ask her the name of her perfume ... So there you are pacing the Sephora shop to identify the wake of the enemy to destroy. In two minutes, watch in hand, find you the bottle of Amor Amor Elixir being seriously tempted to buy it, you too ... Until a vendor presents you Womanity of Tierry Mugler. And here is the shock, the thunderbolt is also a fruity floral, but sweeter, stronger, more diffusive, you can imagine very well be that in arriving at the coffee machine on Monday morning, with very high heels, a low waist jeans, laughing very hard and very shiny hair. Beside you, Cindy would look out of a silent film in black and white.
The seller could you shake the shoulder for a minute now, but out of politeness, she let you go until the end of your demonic laughter. The red-cheeked, by realizing your lack of discretion, you could think about how to behave in different situations and, really, no, Womanity is not for the desktop.
few weeks later, you still eventually find your happiness by finding a shop Annick Goutal not far from home. You're now wearing Little Girl, a floral-fruity simple and natural, with infinite gentleness. It certainly did not wake to dig trenches, but it is broad enough to compliment you when we you a kiss, and as you feel yourself throughout the day, as a talisman your femininity, hidden behind a shirt buttoned to the top.
Oh, and Thomas, the other young-framework-which-to-the-Future, turned away from Cindy the other day to compliment you on your new perfume ... What do spoil anything, let's face!
Moreover, speaking of the wolf.
You are a young-framework-that-has-to-the future. You take care of you, you are always to your advantage, you have very white teeth and your nose is fine. You detect the same day when a colleague exchange of perfume, and you do not hide your joy when you recognize a creative niche on someone. Take, for example, that you believe or not, yesterday you discovered that one of your colleagues wearing Little Girl! Yes, because, well, the office, everyone has a perfume, but you know very well that few people really care about it ... But you be concerned about, we can say that you are! You have multiplied trials, carrying samples of virtually all makes possible. But you are overwhelmed by the tastes of those around you, who pours out compliments when you wear perfume very classics like Chanel's Blue The male or JP Gaultier ... And nobody says anything when you wear proudly sample Tonka Imperial that you brought back from Paris and leave only for special occasions! So obviously you're torn between the idea of pleasing others, or make a personal choice that would fill that yourself. Young wolf in good marketing, you need above all reconciliation, and remain convinced that a perfume could please the masses and to yourself ... While reflecting the uniqueness of your taste!
You have entrusted your dilemma to the manager of the shop Frederic Malle , which over time (and your visits very frequently) you know as well as your mother. From a confident air, she has stretched you a sample of A Rose Edouard Flechier claiming that this perfume was infinitely class on a man. And since this is a floral-woody, this is not the kind of wake that crosses all corners of the company! Enchanted by the idea, you tested it at home first and you reveled in this rose away for being too feminine or sweet, actually ... Then one Monday morning, after you shaved, you decided to test this Rose to work without telling anyone. But then, disaster: zero compliment in the elevator, zero compliment in the hallway, and the worst of the worst of the worst was the coffee machine. You went to say hello to the girls, and the most innocent of the world, Cindy wondered aloud who could have had the stupidity to confuse her with a deodorant deodorant for toilets in the pink.
Pétasse.
You left immediately, somewhat annoyed by the fact that ordinary people do not know make a difference between a bomb to toilets and Turkish rose absolute. Five times after pressing the button on the elevator, you have returned and have been surprised Pernelle advancing slowly toward you, like a zombie, chin up, eyes closed, nostrils deployed. Clearly, she had followed you ... And realized how ridiculous his position after one second of hesitation. She opened her eyes with a look panicked and stammered that no, she was not mad, or rather if in fact, but crazy about your perfume. Her cheeks became very pink, and despite the tight bun and pleated trousers, they looked like a little girl who was waiting to to compete. You smiled and you said she was decidedly Little Honey admirably.
It was an opportunity to speak perfume for the first time seriously with a colleague and she told you about his adventures on his own quest for the perfect scent for the office and you are strongly advised not to wear a perfume so strong that a rose, even if it is beautiful on you.
few weeks later, you (perhaps?) Found your happiness by finding a shop not far from L'Artisan Parfumeur you. You yet discovered beautiful fragrance, very original, and modest enough to wake, as you had advised Pernelle. Your heart is torn between Bad Wolf, Thief of Roses and Fou d'Absinthe.
Finally, you understand that you do not try to please the masses, but only one person. You plan well ask Pernelle accompany you in town next weekend, to help you choose ...
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... And it continues with the Senior office! This time we start with the gentlemen:
You are chief-of-service-plus-so-young-as-it. You'll be fifty years old this year, but shhh, it's a secret. The disadvantage is that you will still receive birthday cards, to remind you through cartoons that you have "half a century in the legs." The advantage is that it puts an end to your midlife crisis, during which you have tried successively: from you return to sport, to dress in fashion "lunch" to trick your little wife with Cindy, the secretary-faded-to-door-amor-amor-and-who-you-a-grilled-because-that- your-new-clothes-for-lunch-stank-a-scent-when-you-are-back-a-night ... And you have also tried many new fragrances for young audiences. How to tell? You were ridiculous. This is what your wife said. And you realize now that it was right down the line.
The divorce went wrong. It gave you more white hair (and yet, you just make you do a color at the temples!). But you decided to keep this time around. After all, George Clooney is not the first nor cool, and it is reputed to be the sexiest man on the planet. You have decided to accept aging. Finally. So you gave your flashy new clothes to an association. No more t-shirts with inscriptions English, no more tight jeans, white sneakers finished the trends ... Place a wardrobe more mature, classic, and darker. More class, whatever. There. Class. This is the slogan of the fifties.
You sigh in watching Pernelle and Thomas flirt at the coffee machine. All young and all beautiful. They smell good, too, you have often noticed. Well, that reminds you that you have no fragrance. You gave your son the last bottle you bought (Lolita Lempicka for Men Black XS for Men and One Million). You're ashamed, in retrospect, to have been wearing perfume so strong and so sweet to come to work (and you wear the same summer, what an abomination). But you do not particularly want to go back to your old Eau Sauvage, who accompanied you exactly how long your marriage has lasted with your ex-wife. It would remind you too bad memories.
At Sephora, the pretty young saleswomen led you to Terre d'Hermès and Habit Rouge, but no, no, no, no way to wear the same thing eh colleagues. They will then guided to Play Guivenchy (too flat), Blue Chanel (a little too boilerplate), Allure Homme Sport (it's the scent of your tennis instructor) and Azzaro pour Homme (c ' was the scent of your boss at the same time when you were a young-framework-full-d'avenir ...). You do not buy anything, but are left with pockets full of samples of Chanel No. 5 ("for your wife" exclaimed the salesperson in you launching a wink and you put them in the palm). Come back with her, she will help you choose, she said.
bin.
That morning, over coffee, and Thomas Pernelle have slipped a bit before the others. Watching them away hand in hand, Cindy exclaimed, without trying to be discreet, she was very glad that Thomas finally assumes his homosexuality. General hilarity of the male present. You've gone up and join your two employees lovers and lovers of perfume, with the intention of going to clarify a point. Thomas had worn a perfume to the rose, a few days earlier, a perfume that you, the chief-of-service-plus-so-young-as-it, would have to recognize among a thousand.
A Rose?
Yes, that's it. The scent of the new woman in your ex-boss, that you will never forget it. That was twenty-seven, and the remains of this venture are recorded in history flowers from trunk.
- Want maybe I will accompany you to the store Frederic Malle, to find it? She is a widow for a long time now ... And you're divorced, so ...
- Thomas is tempting, but that's okay. Send him my regards anyway.
pertinant You knew what kind of woman is it who you are and not the reverse. So one day, maybe ... But not like this.
Well, enough about the past and your disastrous love life, you had come to seek advice from your two employees very perfume! They are excited as soon as bullets, as the only real perfumista do know when to advise a friend to choose a new perfume. Thomas was immediately exclaimed that you have always seen Vetiver Extraordinaire, quickly approved by Pernelle. Why not. The Vetiver is in. And not too "lunch". And class. Very fifties, what! Why not, why not. Oh no! It's in Frederick Malle. Anything else? That of Guerlain? Oh no, you do not like that at all Guerlain. One of Chanel? Too expensive. He Annick Goutal?
Annie who?
The following weekend, Pernelle accompanied you in this famous Annick Goutal (she had to buy a new bottle of Little Girl, anyway). Very excited by the range, you had a crush for MONUMENTAL Sands (original, intelligent, brilliant, complex, beautiful, it stands out, is quite short it !......... YOU ... Finally, in your opinion, what). You would have bought on the fields if you were not Pernelle touch and close fastening arm, with a pleading look and the words "not for the office" on the lips. It is true that strong, though. Too bad, this one, it will be for the weekend. And, frankly, it's almost summer ...
Hey, what's that?
Water Hadrian. (Pernelle raised both thumbs).
Pshiit.
Mmmmmmh. Very ... Class!
It will show it to your friend Emma. Finally, in three years when she returns from her maternity leave what ...
Oh? it back already ..?
You are a young-mom-who-works-well. You juggle between office, home and nursery, between bottles, diapers and folders. And you're doing pretty well, without wishing to boast ... We must say that being Mom, this is not completely new in your life, then the arrival of your little girl has brought a lot of joy without all the drawbacks associated with them due to lack of habit. The maternal instinct, you always had, and besides you in your back nicknamed "mother company", and it make you smile a lot. You really like to help others, and you were sorry to hear that you were on maternity leave when Paul was divorcing. Fortunately, Pernelle and Thomas, your two little proteges, took care of him what you said, and today he finally smiling again. You are very proud of these two chicks, and have wept with joy when you Pernelle announced today that they were dating. It is true that they come from afar. You remember like it was Yesterday's disastrous debut beautiful little Pernelle, who had to undergo one year of sexual harassment of its leader internship before crack and come tell you. It is from that day that you have taken under your wing, you have helped fulfill the legal proceedings, you accompanied him to court, you went with her to buy her new clothes in which she would feel more secure about coming to work. You have advised him to harden ... That's what she has managed to do, but she did not attend any young man for this event. You were so scared for her! And now she has Thomas found. It could not be better. It is a treasure. Upon his arrival in the company, it was not yet well dressed and always wore braces ... (you probably Olala a picture lying around somewhere, it highlights the need to consider one of these days). .. You have taught him to make his first bow tie, and now he could give lessons! The ugly duckling turned into a swan, but what makes its value is that it has never been vain or narcissistic. On this point, it stands out from many of his colleagues ...
Ah there it is, it's finally time. You're right to arranged schedules since you returned to work, and therefore can pick up your little heart to the nursery every day to 17 hours. You store your office, put on your coat, but before you go: you enter the vial of One Morning Storm you hide in the bottom drawer. It's become a ritual now. You wore Morning Storm in abundance during your pregnancy so that you associate inexorably to your little girl ... And no doubt it too associates you with this smell, this perfume is amazing how can succeed to calm her if you spray a little on his blanket! But nothing in the world you would not come to work wearing a as personal perfume, it would be almost indecent ... It is for this reason that in the top drawer, you keep Infusion Tuberose, Prada. The morning arrived, as you spray a little behind the ears, and it's like you put on a mask business woman in black suit! A perfect as a tuberose Savonette, bright as a ray of sunshine, not too diffusive. Do you like most about this perfume is the low resistance that allows you to change the fragrance in late afternoon. You have several roles, you are many, and you have long understood that you enjoy even more your perfume when they reflect an aspect of your personality.
- Well everyone tomorrow, good night!
- Kiss early for us!
A little later, at the coffee machine ...
- * snif snif *... Hmm? Port Angeles anyone? Clara, it's you ?
- No, not at all.
- gosh Who?
- ...?
- ...?
- ...?
- Person ... I think ... But you're not seeing things, I feel it too, myself.
- Me too.
- Yeah, me too.
Shrug general.
Thirty seconds later, Cindy came in torrents in space and relaxation, with heads of good news.
- Hey everyone! Guess quoiiii! I FINALLY changed perfume, but wow, it changes a lot of my Amor Amor, you're surprised, going, guess what it is, guess what it is!
- We give all our language to the cat, Cindy ...
- ANGEL! It suits me so well! I think I found my scent, one that reflects my personality and is closest to my soul!
- Oh, my Cindy, Pernelle exclaimed, hiding her face in her shirt. Always unpredictable, a true poker player ...
Next year, she will do exactly the same scene after being showered with Flowerbomb.
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Well, this article is not as focused on the flavors that I would have liked, but somehow when you make a list of fragrances, the most interesting happening in the comments!
....... So now, YOU perfume your office, what is it? =)
(PS: useless, but I have not managed to cram in the article ... For those who wondered, Pernelle really enjoyed Thief Rose at the Artisan, so it's this one Thomas took that course!)
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