You Smell So Geometric (Is That Ralph?)

Giorgio Armani's new scent is called Mania. Later this year Ralph Lauren will launch a perfume called Ralph. And Givenchy has three scents due in the fall: Fast Forward, Rewind and Play. After years of offering exotic and sensuously named perfumes and colognes, fragrancemakers have started giving scents names that evoke more prosaic moments.

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Crust of Bread (Demeter) Curve (Liz Claiborne) Rush (Gucci) Energizing Fragrance (Shiseido) Sonoma Valley (Crabtree & Evelyn) Holy Water (Demeter) Perceive (Avon) Clean Wet Laundry (smell THIS) Humidor (Demeter) Ultraviolet (Paco Rabanne) Vice Versa (Yves Saint Laurent) Canned Peaches (smell THIS)

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