You are my favorite fragrance reviewer and I get so excited when you post these gems. Always so intelligent + chic but yet somehow still welcoming + generous. Always creative, engaging, enjoyable, and I learn so much + am inspired by you. Thank you + happy new year! Cheers, Amy
Dan it is in my book an instant classic. You have a nose for what is elegant and timeless. How could I not mention it? It is indeed a very important fragrance in my life. Cheers
That is one cleeeeean and handsome British Sterling bottle! 😄 Fougere Royale and Pour Monsieur staples for the modern gentleman. And of course, Cosmair Polo. 💚💚💚 Definitely on my list of life-definers. Thank you for sharing Lanier!
Delighted to see you looking as dapper and debonair as ever ,and that holds through as much today as indeed I can see back throughout your life by way of your amazing memory sharing, pictures ,anecdotes, music and your dear friends of whom allowed us to accompany them in your many fragrance journeys. Wonderful video ,with amazing homage to all you hold dear past and present and most importantly the memories yet to come to be.god bless and a 2023 worth remembering to you sir 🙏
Oh yes, I could see you in the classic, glamorous Hollywood era with your handsome, expressive countenance. Thank you, Lanier, for the elegance, wit, and beauty you bring to the fragrance community. Happy New Year!
Lanier Smith, love that you are a contrarian. I like your saying wear what you love not what they say you should like. It seemed like you became emotional looking back in time. I like how fragrance can capture a memory and bring one back in time.
great to see you in the festive season, you are such a life lover, and that reflects on us when we watch your videos, merry Christmas and a very wonderful new year 😘
Thank you for sharing those fragrances that were so influential and important in your life, thus far. Your choices are classic and debonair, which seems to echo who you are! I wish you a new year of health and happiness!
Happy New Year, Lanier! I loved so many of these timeless classics. While some are STILL on my to-sniff-list I am sad to say. Gotta put my nose on them in 2023, for sure. Enjoyed, as always! Cheers.
What a lovely coincidence! When I decided to buy my first designers fragrance with my first salary back in 1993, I went to Chanel’s counter and asked for Egoiste. The sales lady told me that I should buy something more trendy and youthful like Cool Water but I said I didn’t want to smell like the rest. Then I went for something more appropriate for daytime and she offered me Eternity. I chose Chanel pour Monsieur instead and I was delighted with my choice. One day, many years afterwards,I learned from someone who deserves all my respect the following thing: Wear what you love and not what they tell you!❤
Your story is unbelievable. When I went to Chanel's counter, ladies there never offered me something not from Chanel. In fact, never ever any lady in the fragrance department offered me not what I was interested in. I wear only what I love because I buy fragrances for myself. However, there are people who need an advice on fragrances because they want to impress others.
Now THIS is the Christmas present I didn't deserve but absolutely needed! Thanks for sharing those stories with us naughty kids :D Hope you're having a wonderful holiday season! I also hope we'll get to enjoy many more of your videos in 2023! Cheers (yeah there are a lot of exclamation points, I stand by every one of them)
Well I have a lot of those fragrances and they have significance in my life. Especially Polo Green, my #1 scent of all time and my signature scent, my only scent outside Old Spice, for years. Also Pour Monsieur, Floris No. 89, Houbigant Fougere Royale (2010). And you've got to get your nose on Floris Elite, from 1980, Lanier. It was named after "Lotion Elite" an early after shave product of Floris from 1851.
Always get excited when I see a video posted by you. Thank you for putting yourself out there and creating such a timeless collection of videos for us. I do hope you continue to review. Cheers and Happy New Year friend
A great video as always, dear Lanier. That Chanel No. 5 story is wonderful. Now I'm going to read the ET one. Thank you for your service to the community and all the joy you bring to us in your stylish and friendly way. Have a blessed new year!
Best wishes to you in the upcoming New Year Lanier ! Thanks for sharing some memories and your connections through fragrance. I remember wearing many of these over the decades. I'm glad to have started my fragrance journey back in the 60's, as I realize today that my life would be incomplete without them !
Reflection can be bittersweet. Yet here comes a new year with all it's possibilities. Looking forward to how you stylishly bring in this New Year. All the best Lanier! 🥂 Cheers!
An awesome list Lanier! The fragrances that we grew up with are indeed truly special and they will always be the ones we choose to feel nostalgia and those comforting moments. I also have Gravitas Pour Homme and I agree it's an incredible fougere.
Happy Holidays, Lanier!! It was fabulous to see the colognes that were highlights through your life. I own most of them and love them as well. Thank you for sharing with us. Be well my friend.
Lanier, I always enjoy your fragrance reviews. Your videos are educational and you present your content in the classiest way possible. God bless you. You are one of a kind.
I love your topic Lanier. I still own a miniature bottle of the lovely Passion on an extrait. I recently reconnected with Carolina Herrera for Men, classic 90’s in a tester bottle. Though it’s been watered down, the transformations & the old dna are still there. I’m so happy it’s still available in the market. I also bought the new repackaging of Xeryus Rouge (blind buy) by Givenchy. I’m so stunned and wowed with the scent. Why did I miss this decades ago (the red bottle) is my huge regret. Have you smelled these two perfumes way back? More success to you my fragrance friend. 🙏🏻❤️
Thank you Lanier, This was a unique subject, which many of fragrance lovers can connect to. I am in my early fifties and brings back all memories. Thanks again and looking forward to see you soon.
A lovely sequence of fragrances on your journey. Enjoyed watching that Thankyou. I still wear my first fragrance which was Oscar de La Renta Pour Lui. I was so happy you did a review of it this year. Have a great new year Lanier.
Love your reviews❤. Your reviews are always very informative. Your reviews are not only about the fragrances but the story behind them are very interesting❤️. By the way all of your images at the beginning have that “how you doin’” stare😂I love it. Keep those reviews coming. Much love from south Texas❤️
Oh sweet romantic melancholy. Memories and moments that formed a life. That's one of the reasons I love perfumery so much. And these kind of reviews are precious gemstones in the fragrance community on the digital platforms. Très bien monseigneur! Merci beaucoup. 👌✨
Well I think of myself as the Samuel Goldwyn of fragrance reviewers. You see in the 30's, 40's and 50's the big studios in Hollywood such as Metro, Warners and 20th Century Fox put out a picture a week. 52 films a year. Then there was Goldwyn Studios and good old Sam didn't come close to that level of production, He took his time and in doing so produced some of the best films from the studio system, Dodsworth Wuthering Heights, Ball of Fire, Pride of the Yankees, The Little Foxes, Best Years of Our Lives (One of my all-time favorite films). Plus, he was famous for his funny "Goldwynisums"..."I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." "Gentlemen, include me out." "Color television! Bah, I won't believe it until I see it in black and white." and "A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.' and many more. So, you can count me in when it comes to trying to do my best to inform and entertain. Cheers and thanks
Neat video idea. I love VC&A Pour Homme, Chanel Pour Monsieur, and Polo Green. I don’t remember trying British Sterling though it was quite ubiquitous growing up in the 80s. Happy New Year 🎉
Hi Lanier...back in the day when ET was launching Passion, I was approached by Chen Sam(her then beloved publicist) in NYC to come up w/a design idea for the launch as far as a floral special gift presentation pouch for the perfume box. I had done Elizabeth's gifts of florals to her NY friends and aquaintances and did her suite flowers when she was in town at the Plaza Athanee. The pouch which was of silk violet velvet w/braided "roping" and tassel was nixed because of costs..imagine...lol.......but i continued our relationship w/her in NY and w/her publicist.....Unfortunately Chen paassed away quite some time before ET and that was a crushing blow to Elizabeth as a long time confidant and publicist. I subsequently moved to Santa Monica after a :lifetime" in NY to continue to do florals for the studios and individual celeb accts.......Knowing her was the epitome of elegance and formality and also the down and dirty fun times....Quiet a woman!
Bob.... you take my breath away. But I am somehow not surprised to read your story. I can't put my finger on why but there is something I've picked up over the years by your comments that your revelation gives me an understanding of why your comments are always a joy to read. She touched my life too, from a distance through letters when I was a teenager. there are so many stories, someday maybe I can share them with you. She was a great teacher of how to live a genuine honest life. That and her work with AIDS were her gifts to me. cheers my friend.
Thank you for the acknowledgement. I was lucky enough to have many Christmas cards and letters of recommendation from her to add to my portfolio. Have you tried Chen by Serge Lutens?..its an amazing scent and gets very little play in the RU-vid community...a somber chilly oakmoss and woods...very base heavy..only for the dreariest o f gray days..but thought provoking and like going into a secret veil of dampness...quite interesting.
I see that you like old class movies, did you see this new movie babylon script and directing by damien chazelle ( he made la la land and whiplash) starting brad Pitt who plays Jack Conrad ( character inspired by actor from 20's John Gilbert) and Margot Robbie who plays Nellie LeRoy inspired by actress Clara Bow. the movie shows how filthy was Hollywood already at that tone, but its also about subject of passing. the story of the movie has a place at the end of silent cinema and begining of sound movies it was begining of rise of many new stars but also fall of big names in silent cinema. Great movie great music
I must be missing something significant.... actor, model?? I know you as fabulous fragrance reviewer whom I admire and respect but all these drawings and photos... please explain to a confused viewer.
