Arpege——LANVIN 评价：四星
I have long held the opinion that,much as people’s politics tend to drift rightward with age,perfumes become more masculine with time.This is partly due to the fact that most classic feminines undergo breast reduction at each reformulation,and partly due to the outrageous,borderline-slutty girliness of many modern ferminines,which makes the ladylike masterpieces of an earlier age seem positively virile.Add to that the fact that most modern masculines are either fresh-woody nonentities or chemical foghorns,and you will see why the discerning guy raids his grandma’s shelves.Arpege is a case in point.It was reformulated many times,both stealthily and openly,all the while claiming absolute fidelity to the original formula.Today it is an elegant,nutty,woody floral with an overall cashmere beige tonality that would be very dowdy on all but a guy.Recommended.
最近忙得昏了头了……正好要写Arpege，正好有人说我适合Arpege ，于是抽空翻翻LT的评价……呃……好吧，我是翻译无能星人……看得头晕，意思理解得不清楚，就不乱搞献丑了，呼唤高手，海马锅，咬咬……
我想我明白LT为什么只给琶音四星，我用了N年前的原版，和现在改版了的琶音相比，实在是……………………（以下省略N句骂人的脏话）
awo说，改版过的琶音是成功的，不过他也说自己没闻过原版，当然，N年前的版本无疑也可能是改过配方的，但是相比起现在的琶音，额滴神啊……（再次省略N句骂人的脏话）
琶音指一串和弦音从低到高或从高到低依次连续奏出，可视为分解和弦的一种。通常作为一种专门的技巧训练用于练习曲中，有时作为短小的连接句或经过句出现在乐曲旋律声部中，也有密集和弦前面加一竖着的波浪线。
我觉得，改版前的琶音，才真正不负这个名字，改版之后的，感觉很欠缺啊……
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Cherchez les femmes ~ or raiding the women’s perfume counter
Posted by Kevin on 1 March 2011
At least twice a week on my way to work, I pass a man on the street who is wearing Guerlain Mitsouko. This guy is Asian, young, dressed in “Seattle style” (baggy jeans and a sensible coat and backpack). I want to say “hi” and let him know I like Mitsouko too, but since it’s always 5:30 a.m. when I smell him, I keep quiet. (It would be weird to strike up a conversation about perfume on a dark street with a stranger — at the crack of dawn, especially with the implication: ‘you smell good’ hanging in the air.)
Since I’ve been writing for Now Smell This, LOTS of men have written me wondering why I’m “prejudiced” against men wearing women’s perfumes. I was surprised at this “interpretation” of my articles. Do I sometimes imply men’s colognes are for men and women’s perfumes are for women?
Men who wear “feminine” scents come in many ‘types.’ There’s the natural, confident man who wears what he likes, be it Drakkar Noir or Yves Saint Laurent Paris. Then there’s the exhibitionist/militant who drenches himself in, say, Fracas — and if you don’t ask about his scent, he’ll start flailing his arms and rearranging his scarf (better to disperse the heavy aroma in your direction) and if that fails to elicit a comment, he offers: “Do you like my perfume? It’s Fracas by Robert Piguet…it’s for WOMEN but I love it so….” (Yes, the dialogue is stilted, but often, so is he.) Some men have told me they wear women’s perfumes “at home”…afraid people will get the ‘wrong impression’ if they wear rose-y, tuberose-y scents in public. Then, there are men who do wear women’s perfumes in public, but in miniscule quantity (“a drop only for me to smell”). There’s nothing wrong with any of these “types” and I’ve fallen into all categories except No. 2. (well…perhaps even category No. 2 in my salad days).
One misconception about men who wear women’s perfumes: they’re gay. I’ve known many straight men who wear women’s perfumes. My roommate in college, a tennis jock who chased every skirt in the dorm, wore Calvin Klein Obsession for women. I remember reading Ilie Năstase wore Fracas proudly (something about those tennis men). A construction foreman my father knew wore all the perfumes in his wife’s formidable Avon collection (she bought them for the bottles, not the scents). One gay man I know says he doesn’t wear women’s perfumes because he does not want to “feed stereotypes” about gay men “wanting to be women”! So you see, this is a complex subject, ripe for contention and woe.
I do wear “feminine” perfumes that suit my tastes (no soliflores of the soft/sweet, “angelic” type, no tween-y fruity-florals, or tuberose-rich perfumes, thank you); in fact, with a few of my choices, I think I go to the head of the class…the class of men who wear feminine fragrances with their heads held high.