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mission impossible; Just how hard is it to buy a perfume for someone you love-and get it right.

Vogue

| December 01, 2007 | Brodie, John | COPYRIGHT 2007 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Condé Nast Publications Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: John Brodie

My wife enjoys surprise trips to Paris. She does not enjoy being surprised with bottles of Paris Hilton's Just Me. This much I know. Nevertheless, finding a perfect scent for the woman I love is a daunting task. In some ways, it is more difficult than buying lingerie for her because smell is a more primitive sense than touch. The pitfalls of selecting the right perfume and the right peignoir are similar, though. Too often men pick out what they like rather than what their significant others crave. How else to explain the husband who purchases gear worthy of a Helmut Newton dominatrix when the missus sees herself as Doris Day in Rock Hudson's ...

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