Chatillon Lux Provisions and Chatillon Lux Parfums

And palindromes are great, too, but Brun Rancid is pretty badass.

Yep.

First of all, Marko, sorry I forgot to answer your question: the horseman on the bottle is Saint Louis, himself. It's an iconic statue that's out in front of the art museum in Forest Park and was built for the World's Fair in 1904.

https://www.stlouis-mo.gov/archive/histo...tatue.html

At that time, St. Louis was also called The Fourth City (Chicago being second, and I believe Philadelphia was third?). It's a nod to the way that this city loves being the underdog. It's the Rodney Dangerfield of cities in our minds. Also, the scent we were wanting to create was more refined and kind of old fashioned, so we thought that the World's Fair was a good place to start for the inspiration for the scent.

And palindromes are great, too, but Brun Rancid is pretty badass.

OK, it begs the question - what city is first?  Washington?  New York? Boston?  I'm not up on my American history.  I like the underdog reference and I can certainly relate to Rodney Dangerfield - no respect.  It sounds like St. Louis has their own version of Han going on.  Han is a uniquely Korean sentiment which I think wiki can explain better https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_(cultural)  When I learned about Han it helped put both North and South Korea into perspective for me, a little.

Yes Brun Rancid was a punk rocker, my friend came up with Thud Klunk as his punk rock name.  I don't think Thud had as successful a career as Brun did.

While I was writing this post I received your shipment so I now have quite a bit of your product to work my through - Thanks!  I'll let you know my thoughts as I use it as I found with the first order that I shouldn't base my opinion on just sniffing the bottle - remember that when you get yours kwsher

Thanks Shawn,

Marko

First of all, Marko, sorry I forgot to answer your question: the horseman on the bottle is Saint Louis, himself. It's an iconic statue that's out in front of the art museum in Forest Park and was built for the World's Fair in 1904.

https://www.stlouis-mo.gov/archive/histo...tatue.html

At that time, St. Louis was also called The Fourth City (Chicago being second, and I believe Philadelphia was third?). It's a nod to the way that this city loves being the underdog. It's the Rodney Dangerfield of cities in our minds. Also, the scent we were wanting to create was more refined and kind of old fashioned, so we thought that the World's Fair was a good place to start for the inspiration for the scent.

And palindromes are great, too, but Brun Rancid is pretty badass.

OK, it begs the question - what city is first?  Washington?  New York? Boston?  I'm not up on my American history.  I like the underdog reference and I can certainly relate to Rodney Dangerfield - no respect.  It sounds like St. Louis has their own version of Han going on.  Han is a uniquely Korean sentiment which I think wiki can explain better https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_(cultural)  When I learned about Han it helped put both North and South Korea into perspective for me, a little.

Yes Brun Rancid was a punk rocker, my friend came up with Thud Klunk as his punk rock name.  I don't think Thud had as successful a career as Brun did.

While I was writing this post I received your shipment so I now have quite a bit of your product to work my through - Thanks!  I'll let you know my thoughts as I use it as I found with the first order that I shouldn't base my opinion on just sniffing the bottle - remember that when you get yours kwsher

Thanks Shawn,

Marko

It's more that it was the fourth-largest city in the US at the time. And Han does seem pretty accurate, except I think a lot of the bitterness comes from that rust belt thing when the city had to shift away from the textile and livestock industries that used to keep the city afloat. Luckily Jack Dorsey is from here and has done a really great job helping to help tech jobs and business incubators really take off here. Well, that and the fact that doing business here costs a fraction of what it does in San Francisco.

And yeah, stuff can be weird out of the bottle. Especially Bon Vivant.

And yeah, stuff can be weird out of the bottle. Especially Bon Vivant.

There I was, I thought I had a jail break on my hands at Chatillonlux.com. Ok, well not a jailbreak but I did have Aftershave as a drop down. Off to the races early? An easteregg of AS?

Not yet Thanks for the tips both Marko and hawns on scents.

Ha, kwsher, since they're going up at midnight, I formatted it a little early to give me a break tonight. I'm too old to be saying up that late on a weeknight!

Ha, kwsher, since they're going up at midnight, I formatted it a little early to give me a break tonight. I'm too old to be saying up that late on a weeknight!

I'm jealous. I'm going to have to build a weekly roster of Chatillon Lux products to use to ensure that I give each their fair share of playing time. Its like a pitching rotation but what a bullpen. Again with the first world problems.

I hear you on the whole rust belt thing - I figure what is good for corporations isn't necessarily good for nations. I spent a week in Cape Girardeau a few years back when I worked for Mobil Oil just pre Exxon and I was struck by the abandoned buildings - blocks of them, close to the river while newer stuff was built up near the new river (freeway). There was this 10 storey hotel that looked like the last person had left and just locked up 10 years earlier. Curtains falling off the windows and furniture just laying around. You could walk down the middle of the "main" road in the middle of a work day and not have to give way to any cars. Just spooky. Sad too.

It must be getting close to bed time,
Mark

Just grabbed a couple of AS and a toner to check out. AS: Bon Vivant, Gratiot League Sqr. Toner: Le Foret de Liguest. Thanks for the recommendations and looking forward to trying these out!

I saw that, kwsher, thanks! Glad you picked up both, because the toner is good for colder days or if your skin gets a little dried out but you don't need something over the top moisturizing. Hope you enjoy them!

Also, Marko, Cape Girardeau really is a beautiful town and it's a shame that it's been affected so adversely. I have some friends who went to Southeast Missouri State there and have heard a bunch of stories. But much like The Revenant being filmed up in your parts, they filmed Gone Girl in Cape Girardeau. It was cool to see Cape on the screen.

I saw that, kwsher, thanks! Glad you picked up both, because the toner is good for colder days or if your skin gets a little dried out but you don't need something over the top moisturizing. Hope you enjoy them!

Also, Marko, Cape Girardeau really is a beautiful town and it's a shame that it's been affected so adversely. I have some friends who went to Southeast Missouri State there and have heard a bunch of stories. But much like The Revenant being filmed up in your parts, they filmed Gone Girl in Cape Girardeau. It was cool to see Cape on the screen.

I had fun in Cape Girardeau, it was a major emergency response exercise featuring a mock oil spill in the river, there were lots of people there from Mobil and the various government agencies and we even got out on the river in speedboats. That was over 15 years ago so I would hope theres been some renewal happening in the older parts of the town since then. The changes made sense though because the older part of the town was built on the main thoroughfare of the time, the river, and the newer parts are built on the modern thoroughfare - the freeway. It was interesting too to get an up close view of how barge traffic moves on the river - they're much bigger than I had imagined.
I'll have to watch Gone Girl.
Mark

I'll have to watch Gone Girl.
Mark

The book made me nervous around women for a bit

hawns, after Marko's description of the toner I had to at least sample it. It's going to be 81F here today though.