As I said, I have taken a shine to perfume reviews. They are decadent, pretentious, and shockingly overblown. Nevertheless. I recommend this one as a paragon of the genre.
http://themoment.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/30/scent-notes-sheer-stella-2009-by-stella-mccartney/
Excerpt: "It was a pale, dark beauty, a peony and rose that seemed in its initial moments a Romantic Keatsian figurine, a willowy girl smelling of dark flowers with the lovely tinge of blossoms just beginning to wilt..."
I know; it's cheesy. But I can't live on hot reptile blood alone. I need a touch of the fancy.
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