Thread: Sartorial?

Originally Posted by WW243

"Designed to evoke the mingling aromas of a tailor's work room."
I've had a suit altered, I think the guy was a tailor. Perhaps tailors are defined by someone who can make a suit from a bolt of fabric....but look that up if you must....I am too busy laughing at the copy writer who decided that in an Eau de Toilette Spray you would want to smell like a tailor's work room. I think they got that description from the name of the product from Penhaligon's, Sartorial. But what do you imagine a tailor's work room smells like? I'm thinking cigar or cigarette smoke, light machine oil, body odor, methane gas.....

I think most people are desensitized to how things happen and when they're asked to imagine something nice that's exactly what they do, the less they know the nicer they can make it.

I grew up with chickens in the yard so I don't imagine the process of the eggs appearing in this world every time I make a breakfast or desert with eggs. But for somebody unfamiliar with bird anatomy egg-making is something like this:


Penhaligon's generally makes nice scents, and while Sartorial hasn't convinced me yet to buy a bottle, it's definitely high quality, well made and perfectly fit for office wear. I may be influenced by the marketing, but I smell machine oil in it and it's perfectly fine with me. I also like the smell of cured whale vomit a.k.a. ambergris but like with the eggs I don't try to associate it with a nasty image.
As with any smell I think it's silly to buy it based on the marketing description - even if I test it at a store I still get a sample to try over a week or two and decide if it's something I'd like to wear for decades, which is how long it takes me to go through a bottle.