In Chinatown

I am wearing Bond #9 Chinatown.

I am not sure that this is what a smell called "Chinatown" should smell like. Then again, I don't know exactly what a scent called "Chinatown" should smell like, although I'm thinking vaguely of tea and rice and, dried mushrooms and fresh greens. Not very perfume-like, I suppose. A Mental Note says it smells like a fortune cookie, and I think AMN may be on to something.

Anyway, Chinatown is gorgeous. Peach-blossomy, flowery, incensey, cardamom-spiked gorgeous. Over at www.perfumeposse.com, they say it smells like nothing else, and they're right. I would know this scent anywhere in the world, it's so distinct and red-orange-smelling. (The bottle, BTW, is beautiful, but it should not be vivid pink. This is a red-orange lacquer smell. THANK you.

This stuff is beautiful on my skin, it never develops an off note anywhere. But you know, I think it must take nerve to wear. It's weird. I wonder if...