No Sleep 'Til Brooklyn

I have a confession to make.  Even though I grew up in NJ and have been to Manhattan a million times, I've only been to Brooklyn, uhm, twice.  And I think once doesn't count since we were driving through and I never even got out of the car.  But now that Brooklyn's all hip and trendy, I keep meaning to get there to check it out (it's going to happen next time I'm on the east coast, I swear!)  In the meantime, I'm going to just wear Bond No. 9's new Brooklyn Eau De Parfum.  It's totally different from any other fragrance I've tried lately (I'm usually partial to the clean scents) but there's something about it that really intrigues me.  It's a unisex scent, so that might be it, since it's definitely got a masculine edge to it.  Bond No. 9 describes it as "a woody, spicy-filled oriental that mingles cardamon, geranium leaves, and cedarwood while grapefruit and juniper leaves accelerate the scent, and South American guaiacwood and leather bring a tender, beckoning touch."  It's definitely spicy, but I think it's the grapefruit that I'm responding to - it somehow makes it a little softer and more interesting.  (Maybe it's because Jo Malone's Grapefruit Cologne is one of my favorites).  I think it might be the kind of scent that you need to smell for yourself to decide if you like it.  For me, it's a nice alternative from the scents that I usually wear.  I don't think I'd spritz it on every day, but it'd be a nice change every once in a while, especially during the winter.  (It seems more like a cold weather kind of fragrance to me). 

Brooklyn will be on counters this March.  In the meantime, you can read about other Bond No. 9 fragrances at Bondno9.com.