Male fragrance for women, women's perfume for men?

In the cozy corners of quiet and dark.
On scattering roses spilled carpet carmine.
As Thomen Zhakmino smell of roses,
Who loves Mikhail Kuzmin!
F. Sologub 1913
Read somewhere that the poet Mikhail Kuzmin literally tormented by their fellow spirits - Rose Jaqueminot Coty - striking, intoxicating hatred chypre where the rose is not on the margins, are not washed away and clear, it is honey, and oil, in the foreground, in plain sight. Now aroma with pyshnoteloy beauty on a poster and a bright rose in the composition will be decided to wear only completely insane poet, and then a hundred years ago, people did not try to determine the sex of the fragrance worn anything like it.

Another textbook example Jicky Guerlain, which addresses a legend lady, beloved author, the other - his nephew. And no one is embarrassed by this duality. What has changed in a hundred years? Change the smell of? We changed?
Or just change the inscriptions on the boxes, but stronger gender stereotypes hammered into your head? In fact, manufacturers of perfumes hundred years fooled us and continue to fool. What had been a fashionable topic in perfumes for women, 10 years male becomes a bestseller. And vice versa. In this case, the balance is always maintained. At a time when women prefer languid east, men wear citrus colognes, next to a lady in a mysterious fruity chypre turns blue drunk-shaven gentleman, classic lavender irrigate a glass - open and windswept. While the ladies choose the sweetest caramel, sick men are drawn to the freshness of galvanized buckets. But a few years before this, or vice versa, later partner, who played white, picks up a black pawn. And now the men are harsh chypre, and the ladies swoon of a word "chypre" and looking for the smell of cleanliness when gentlemen dare to wear a languid sandalwood, something brandy and liqueur or ambergris, women sweep the shelves D & G Liht Blue. While boys bodyazhat fruit jelly, ginger tea, rice paper and mate with osmanthus, patchouli girls jammed, Udy and incense.

The biggest hooligan was, of course, Estee Lauder. She simply glue labels, minimally changing the recipe. Aramis in a few years became Azuree, Youth Dew turned vJHL and Aromatics Elixir Clinique became Aramis 900 (or vice versa, I do not remember any of them left earlier). Great Guerlain fragrances family so great and because the family that their genes are passed on, and the male and female line. Look at the Shalimar and Habit Rouge, they are one and the same substance, only one in the fashion of the 20's dress with low waist, on the other - tweed pants with a high seating position as worn in the late 50's.
Does this mean that the label can not watch? I do not watch and I know many fans of perfumes do not look, especially if we are talking about the great, brilliant or just your favorite flavors. Chanel pour monsieur is now almost the only available real chypre. so, how were women chypre in the 70s. Well, give it up because of the word monsieur? And the fact that now is available for men - anguish, with such hunger involuntarily polezesh on shelves ladies for powerful and impregnable Amouage Gold, for solar and light Diorella, for the Shalimar, if you want a thick amber in a powerful loop. What is good on the male skin tuberose! Ladies and never dreamed of such sharpness and passions.
Do not look at the label and people are sincere, far from stereotypes, choosing heart. Recently Lipetsk boutique niche perfume I witnessed as a young man to buy his favorite Montal (not remember the name, something with green peaches), and justified before consultants: "I know that the female, but like, right here, my, help it can not. "