March - heh, Yatagan is all about life-lust somehow, so that makes a lot of sense. So how could one not lust for Yatagan? And on the Old Lady scents, I\’m sure that the varying state of visual clues versus aromatic ones has a lot to do with it. I didn\’t even think of the \”advertising\” of sexuality in an interpersonal way like that… I am sure that has so much to do with the state of things. Very interesting. A counterbalance of smell to visual as you have phrased it sounds so right as to be undeniable.

PS Old Lady scents. Well, back in the day (you have, I think, a lot more vintage stuff than I do, but still) many of the ladies’ scents were pretty ripe, no? Leather, civet, musk? Broadcasting sexual interest and viability and potential availability through perfume, rather than walking around, sans undies, in pole dancer attire, like the nice suburban girls in my local mall. We’ve kicked this topic around before, but it seems that the fragrance got cleaner as the clothes got dirtier. Maybe it’s a counterbalance? I look like a prostitute but smell like a bowl of fruit being carried by a 12-year-old? Ungh. Okay, I need more coffee, my brain hurts.

“but we are maybe just a little less ladylike when we do. And I mean that in a good way”
Nothing wrong with that - it ain’t nearly so fun to be a lady than a tomboy, anyhow :)

Robin - Thanks, m’dear, it’s nice to be in action. I’ve been stumbling over the worst case of writer’s block lately, sigh. You really must try Yatagan, not that I think you’d like it enough to buy, but you’d find sampling it very interesting.

Marina - Thank you, too. Trying to get back on the horse again when you still have writer’s block is just awful, but I’ll try :)