what bodies of water wear
juliette HAS a gun and is not afraid to use it on
creed centaurus men on the eurostar
december 2025
a fly trapped in a glass jar can’t get out and doesn’t understand why, because she can’t see the lid. more than that the fly can’t even see that she is inside a glass jar at all. to understand it the fly would have to be far away,
at a distance from the thing that contains her.
i don’t know if this is the metaphor i should use when writing a little text about perfumes and eurostar trains, but it would be naive to think that that’s all there is to it.
one of my dearest readers, whose real name i won’t mention for privacy, so i’ll call her juliette, told me she took the eurostar. the details aren’t relevant what matters is that they yelled at her. and they yelled at her while she was being an excellent passenger, no less. being yelled at is awful, especially on the eurostar.
an experience that would destabilize anyone.
now let’s do an exercise:
who was it that yelled at her?
a condescending man.
and what do condescending men smell like?
dior sauvage?
wrong answer.
a toxic man can no longer be reduced to a mere dior perfume, to a creed aventus.
for context creed aventus was the perfume of toxicity by election. a fruity chypre with smoky undertones.
a millésime quality fragrance.
it smells amazing, i admit defeat.
but i won’t accept being told that this is still the smell of evil.
maybe of stupidity, given that i walk down the street and smell thousands of dupes.
the creed aventus has a misleading sweetness hidden behind a musky fog. passive aggressive.
so i asked my reader what did the eurostar man smell like
amber, of course.
and i leave you here with my big prediction for 2026 creed centaurus will be the new dior sauvage in fragrance literacy.
jokes will be made, the expression creed centaurus will become shorthand for toxicity. every time i smell a woody amber, every time i pass through de beauvoir town i tremble.
but juliette takes the eurostar, and juliette has a gun.
literally. my friend only uses juliette has a gun perfumes.