WWYW- Birthday Party edition
By Tom
Today I went to a birthday party. It was at Spago, where I'd never been before. I was the only man in a group of about 40. I am friends with about half of them and was invited by the birthday girl, who jokingly said "are you sure you'd like to be alone in a roomful of women? (Husband) wouldn't on a dare." Of course I answered "well I consider myself one of the girls.."
Of course being ladies from the real Beverly Hills they ran the sartorial gamut from just-came-from-elementary-school jeans to Chanel suits. I recognized a few scents that I really love: Joy, Fracas and (the real, original) Chanel No 19 I recognised, all applied in the proper "you can only smell me if I choose to hug you" daytime strength. There were others I didn't recognise, but they were lovely ones. I'll have to shoot off a few emails to find out what they were. I wore nice Khakis, a blue blazer and a tie. Oh, and one spritz of Féminité du bois.
What would you wear to a ladies who lunch lunch?
Wolfgang Puck came through at one point to say Happy Birthday to the birthday girl and clapped me on the shoulder on his way out of the room, saying in that singular accent "How'd you manage to be the one man in this group of women?"
My answer? "Blind luck"..
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Labels: Chanel, Patou, Robert Piguet, Shiseido, Tom |
10 Comments:
Balmain Ivoire is the supreme ladies' lunch scent. She's a pleasant, attractive, affable lady, but a dignified one who does not smile on command.
Lunch? Shalimar, Batucada or Iris Nobile EdP currently.
I love to lunch with the ladies.
Portia x
Hey Tom: My lunch scent is currently Tam Dao. However, my late husband was always at his best when he lunched with the ladies because he had six aunts. He didn't wear any lunch scent.
Hmmmm, for Spago, probably Jub25, very discreetly applied.
I was lucky enough to dine at L'Orangerie a time or three, and for that it was usually Joy. Chasen's probably got the full on Opium treatment, since I'd have been trying to fend off all the Giorgio and Bijan....
Martha-
Can you believe I've never smelled that? I'll have to seek it out..
Partia- Good choices!
Marcha- Tam Dao is a good one!
Tammy-
Nice choice!
My vintage Nettie Rosenstein Odalisque would be perfect; it smells like old money. Gotta at least try to fake that! :-)
D- I have to try that one of these days..
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