I am not personally into perfume at all, but this is actually kinda cool. Marie Antoinette's favorite scent is being revived! Now we can all smell like an infamous French aristocrat and victim of the guillotine!
(Well, actually only if you can stomach the $130 bill.)
But what is weird (because nothing about this is weird yet) is that it is being launched on Bastille Day. It was my general impression that the French people struggling for their independence and who stormed the Bastille that historic, symbolic day rather disapproved of Marie Antoinette & amis and their decedent, frivolous, expensive, elite way of life. Hence all the executions.
So reviving an expensive luxury item belonging to the Queen of France seems like a rather disingenuous way to celebrate the French Revolution. Les citoyens would not approve!
But maybe that's just me and my history books.
But what is weird (because nothing about this is weird yet) is that it is being launched on Bastille Day. It was my general impression that the French people struggling for their independence and who stormed the Bastille that historic, symbolic day rather disapproved of Marie Antoinette & amis and their decedent, frivolous, expensive, elite way of life. Hence all the executions.
So reviving an expensive luxury item belonging to the Queen of France seems like a rather disingenuous way to celebrate the French Revolution. Les citoyens would not approve!
But maybe that's just me and my history books.
I agree...weird day to release it!
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