Musings: The beginning.

The format of this blog will be as follows.

I will update Mondays and Fridays, and odd updates will likely occur in between.

Monday's updates will consist of odd musings and ramblings, news in the industry, news about me, and news about music. Things an esoteric such as yours truly would enjoy.

Friday's updates will consist of reviews. Each Friday I will take care to review a perfume or cologne, either male or female. I will assign it a ranking in personal enjoyment out of ten, and a ranking of longevity out of five.

This is a Monday update, so as mentioned two paragraphs above it will outline my musings in cologne and perfume, to my own enjoyment.

Recently I saw a new addition to Yves Saint Laurent's website on the men's section. There is a variation of the future classic L'Homme scent, titled La Nuit de L'Homme. I find myself very intrigued by its darker bottle and its promising status as an alternative to the original L'Homme, which I very much enjoyed.

I am currently returning from a trip to Boston and New York, where I enjoyed a broken iPod hard drive causing my music library to go unheard. Instead I resorted to an old CD I found in my car, consisting of trashy psy-trance and subpar Röyksopp remixes.

My current testlist consists of a few powerful 80's "man-juices" deemed the "Holy Triumvirate" by the geeks over at Basenotes, a site I very much enjoy visiting. The trio consists of Chanel's Antaeus, Yves Saint Laurent's (hereby known as YSL) Rive Gauche, and also its Kouros. These three powerhouse night-time scents made the 80's what they were in cologne. Not quite as elegant as the 90's or 00's, but with an edge of "I'm a male" found almost nowhere else.

So ends today's musing. Join me Friday when I review one of my favorite young and hip scents, Versace's very own Blue Jeans.

-Soren