Don’t mock the 8-track, it has personality. You really haven’t lived until you’ve heard the strains of Copacabana thumping out of a four dollar 8-track player.

Dude.

Actually, my family had an 8-track stereo well into the mid-’90s. Dad bought a stereo with a cassette player right about the time they went obsolete. My favorite 8-track was a compendium of Disney songs. Really. I kinda wish I still had it.

Hmm, what *is* the scent of David Foster Wallace?

I went to see him read once at Barnes & Noble. He was chubby, unwashed, unshaven, with a disturbingly mime-reminiscent black-and-white horizontal-striped longsleeved t-shirt tucked into stonewashed tapered jeans, the hems of which were tucked into his hiking boots. In his back right pocket was visible the clear outline of a large circular tin. Chaw? we wondered.

See, that’s why I fear I shall never become an Important Writer. I get out of the house and check myself in the mirror once in a while.

Glad you got a giggle out of that bit of geekery - now that I’ve gone and done a HK perfume tie-in, I am thinking at some point I could attempt to tie in my 8 track tape collection to perfume, too. No? Oh, alright, maybe not. Maybe a perfume review ode to David Foster Wallace? It could be made of 10% text, and 90% footnotes.

By the way, what is a barbered tang? Because I’m an idiot, I imagine, like, a jar of Tang getting a haircut. Clearly, this is not what you meant. And yet I am having some kind of brain malfunction that does not allow me to figure it out.

M- thanks, it is a rather silly thing to do, of course, but I’m happy someone appreciates my multifaceted geekiness.

B - will email you later this evening, and I understand exactly about not making your email public. I hate even asking for them, but unfortunately I hate those pesky comment spammers even more. I do get frangipani from it as a matter of fact, but it’s not anything that occurs to me naturally. I have to think about it, and how it’s blended here causes me to not instantly recognize it at all. I read somewhere a mention something about how when you mix frangipani with cassie the texture of the smell changes a lot, and I wonder if that isn’t true.

R - can’t wait to hear what you think of it finally! Do let me know one of these days what your impressions are.

I have to admit that No88 is my favourite C&S next to Dark Rose. I get quite a strong frangipani note in it too. Did you notice it? I quite like frangipani, I even liked Guerlain’s short lived Mahora. Ormonde Jayne’s Frangipani is to die for.

Scentzilla, if you would like to try out Dark Rose, send me an email and I will organise a decant. I presume you can access my email..hope so. I just don’t like to put my email address up for public view.

Barry