:: The Wendy House ::

When the smell of car,  smell of book,  or smell of plastic just isn’t enough to please the peoplewho come within sniffing distance of your life.   

When you long for the-day-after-a-night-in-the-pub smokey scent in your hair, 

Try the new tobacco scented shower gel

you know it makes scents.

when smell of book,  or smell of plastic just isn’t enough for the women in your life,  try smell of car …

Loooooook what I’ve got!

A new technical gadgetty hand-held pocket-sized,  shiney, toy sent to me without solicitation.

This little thingy is going to keep my already seemingly rather complex online banking sign-in that requests out-of-sequence entry of 2 different pin codes,  even more complex. 

Admire It’s all new no-cat-hairs-or-greasy finger-prints casing,  straight out of the box-smells-like-plasitc.  My personal favourite bit is the powder-blue button labelled ‘identity‘.  This button is for my life as a secret agent,  I can click this and change identity.  For example from Ms to Mrs in the flash of a stereotype.

For a man who’s too ‘macho‘ to wear perfume.  Has someone questioned his masculinity?  He needs to reassert he is not a namby-pamby faggot.  “Daytona 500″ scent of the race-track: oil; exhaust fumes; gasoline. Daytona 500 for men who like to go round in circles, getting no-where, fast:

Alternatively,  if you’ve got twice the cash to splash on drowning his natural scent, simply make him hum.  

Looks like the patriarchy is stepping up to sell masculinity using the same tactics that have been tried and tested selling femininity to females… 

A sticker on the underside of my shoe says:

Synthetic upper. Man made sole.

Woman made upper? Machine-made upper? Synthetic sole?  The sole looks like machine moulded plastic rather than ‘hand’ made by people.  It all smells like plastic to me. I wonder why the sticker doesn’t say something like

plastic

or, to be more specific:

made by people and machines from plastic

something for the stinker in your life:

hum = verb,  to smell bad.  A ‘hummer’ is something that emits a bad smell.    How appropriate

Cummings, the fragrance official site. The photographic pun’s on traditional perfume marketing images are worth a look. The whole site is both professional and gently tongue in cheek.  These qualities have left me wanting to try this smell.

Excerpts from Cummings, the fragrance site

“With a name like mine it was made to be sprayed all over people’s body’s, what do you think?” A Cummings

“an assertively masculine combination of bergamot, whiskey, cigar, leather, highland mud, and… condom.”  (Allure)

“Mild. Nice. Not obtrusive” (Martha Stewart)

Books and t-shirt both received a thorough face-hugging sniff… 

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