By Thomas
One evening many years ago a woman clued me in to a secret: her brother used Secret anti-perspirant. Yes, THAT Secret - strong enough for a man, but made for a woman. I stifled my initial urge to run screaming from her apartment, and learned (the real secret here) that some women pay more attention to men who smell like women.
I must not be the only one to know this, because I have a bottle of Caron Third Man, and sometimes I think they got the name wrong. It ought to be called Third Woman, from the ginger-jasmine-bergamot opening. The opening is light and delicate and…pretty, in a high-cheekboned fine-blonde-ringlets way.
Sometimes you get lucky and the light topnotes fade into something more substantial. And sometimes…they cling to you like jasmine-ginger gum on the sole of your shoe. Third Man is the latter case. For the first few hours there is almost no development – the sparkle fades but that's as far as it goes. Eventually we wind up with a jasmine fougere that is still pretty.
The ginger reminds me of another scent I used to wear – Herrera for Men. Strangely enough I had a bottle of Herrera but stopped wearing it. I'd recently gotten married and Herrera was getting too much attention from some of the ladies.
Year: 1985
Notes: Oakmoss, Vetiver, Clove, Coriander, Lavender, Lemon, Bergamot
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