Wednesday 11 July 2012

Bottega Veneta - Man vs Woman

Bottega Veneta is one of my favourite mainstream releases of the last year. It isn't flashy - it has a fairly quiet and restrained elegance that speaks of class and good bearing to me. Perhaps that's a slightly snobby perception, but I can't help it.

While I really love the smell of Bottega Veneta, I have to admit that my skin chemistry doesn't bring out the best in the perfume. It smells quite muted on me.

I recently gave my wife a sample and tonight she wore it for the first time. She doesn't wear a lot of perfume, but tonight she is going out for dinner with friends and sprayed some on before leaving the house. Well, what can I say - Bottega Veneta smells absolutely amazing on her. The sillage she left behind as she departed was just stunning, putting this lovely perfume in a whole new light for me.

It goes to show that in this 'battle of the sexes', perfume wise, Woman came out on top!

5 comments:

  1. On me Bottega Veneta is also very muted. I envy your opportunity to smell it on someone whose skin it's meant for. Clearly I have to recruit a friend or two as alternate skin sample sites.

    -- Lindaloo

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  2. Carol, I take that as approval? ;-)

    Lindaloo, I don't have a lot of people to test perfume on. My wife is an occasional guinea pig, but she is not a massive perfume fan, so its a treat when she does!

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  3. I like BV too, but after I bought it and use for few times, it doesn't go with my skin after a while it's undetectBle...

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  4. Tony, I did find it faded quite fast from my skin too, thinking about it.

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