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Year’s Round-Up: The Best of 2005

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The year 2005 is coming to a close, and as such, it is time for an inevitable list. There were so many new fragrance releases this year, and while some technically were released very late last year, they weren’t really available for regular schmoes like me ’til ‘05.

Let’s start with the famous folks and move on from there:

Best celebrity scent: Cumming (Alan Cumming.) It’s also the weirdest one. I loved wearing it this summer.
Best celebrity scent for a night of dancing: Lovely (Sarah Jessica Parker)
Best celebrity scent for line dancing: Shania (Shania Twain) She’s a dude. And no, I don’t mean dude as a generic term for a man, or in the popularly used surfer/stoner ‘duuuude’ way. If you can claim to have seen a REAL cowboy or cowgirl who looks like Shania Twain, then I will know you were just eating peyote on your trip past the tourist-trap dude ranch.
Best celebrity scent for pole dancing: Just Me (Paris Hilton)
Also ran: Fantasy (Britney Spears.) But alas for Brit, you learn as you get older that some fantasies should remain just that, and ought not to be acted upon. Especially if, according to your commercial, your fantasy is to have an arrow chucked at you like at a mastodon in the days of yore.

Best scent to wear uptown, downtown and everywhere else too, morning, noon, and night: Chinatown Bond No. 9

Best choice if you’d like to remain a pale wallflower: Addict 2 Dior

Best way to smell like a fruity cocktail in a dirty Tiki bar: Escada Escada (new)

Best reason to have a French connection: Borneo 1834 Serge Lutens
But the best reason to travel to France is still, well, it’s frickin’ France. ‘Nuff said.

Best excuse to pick up a limited edition of a beloved scent: Amarige Harvest Collection Givenchy
Best excuse to completely disregard limited editions: Escada’s annual summer fruit-arrheas, this year’s being Rockin’ Rio.

Best product for the delusionally empowered: Goddess Baby Phat

Best kept secret that won’t be a much of a secret for very long: L’air du Desert Marocain Tauer Perfumes
Even better? The bestest: Le Maroc pour elle Tauer Perfumes, which is a MUST for rose-lovers especially. I’m not screwing around here. You can find more info and contact information by going to Andy Tauer’s blog. Seriously. Go. Now. Why are you still reading this? Go already!

Best reason to ignore the hype: Ellenisia Penhaligon
Best reason to ignore the hype, but then go try it anyhow: Very Irresistable for Men Givenchy
Best ignored, or in my case, completely forgotton until just now: Omnia Crystalline Bulgari

Best scent for dimming the lamps, lighting some candles, cuddling up to your sweetheart, and drinking some Gluehwein on a cold winter night: Nanadebary Bronze Nanadebary

Best scent if you’re Harrison Ford, you’re on the lam, and you don’t want to stand out from the crowd because Tommy Lee Jones is hunting you down: Jil Sander Sport for Men Jil Sander

Best use of a cigarette butt note: Velvet Rope Apothia (But you should try it anyhow. I know it’d smell awesome on someone, I just happen to not be that someone.)

Best homage to Thierry Mugler’s Angel: Flowerbomb Extreme Viktor and Rolf
Second best homage to Thierry Mugler’s Angel: Flowerbomb Viktor and Rolf
Also ran: Thierry Mugler’s Angel Garden of Stars trio.

Best imitation of a perfume scent strip: Tampax fresh Tampax

Best accessory for donning imitation vintage duds and acting adorable: Cynthia Rowley Cynthia Rowley

Best way to smell naughty without anyone forgetting you’re really nice after all: Narciso Rodriguez eau de parfum Narciso Rodriguez

Best looking paperweight: Silver Rain La Prairie

Best slapstick routine between fruit and amber: Euphoria Calvin Klein

Best gag gift: Gas for men Gas. Nope, I’m not kidding.

Want to read more? Check out these blogs for some other great lists:

We will all be posting at different times, so if you don’t see a list there yet, check back in later please.

Written by Scentzilla!

December 29th, 2005 at 10:12 pm

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