Fragrances in fiction

[Owen Bawn]

The late gumshoe novelist Robert B Parker's most famous character, Spenser (with an 'S' like the poet) regularly used Pinaud Clubman. I haven't read every single Spenser story but Clubman shows up in many of the ones I've read.

At the more posh end of the spectrum, the late JP Donleavy's most iconic character, Sebastian Dangerfield ('The Ginger Man') tells a young woman who isn't pleased with the way his unwashed body smells that she's wrong, and that she's really smelling Floris' New Mown Hay.

Others?

 

[Benzadmiral]

I seem to recall Ian Fleming having Bond mention Balmain's Vent Vert on a lady friend. And there's a reference to some sort of shampoo Bond uses in a later book; I'd have to look it up.

 

[Lefonque]

Bond was also has GFT Eucris

 

[Tomo]

007 is also known for wearing Floris 89

 

[Tirvine]

Gamache in Louise Penny's (wonderful) books always smelled of rose water and sandalwood. Also, in one of her more recent ones the identification of a scent is an important element of the plot.

 

[Zig the Pirate]

Clarice Starling wore L'Air du Temps in Silence of the Lambs. But not today.

American Psycho: YSL Pour Homme in the shower / cologne cabinet.

 

[Jan Sobieski]

Fleming has Bond using some kind of bar soap - can't recall the name but it was some old classic brand that may have begun with a "C". Didn't he also use Pinaud Quinine Elixir shampoo?

 

[Ravenonrock]

 

[Ad Astra]

Seems like Bond wore bay rum also, though he forgoes it one night before a date, to keep his senses sharp.

AA

 

[FarmerTan]

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Smells like teen spirit.

 

[Settling for DFS]

One of my favorite novels of all time is all about perfume:

Jitterbug Perfume, by Tom Robbins.

Just a phenomenal story.

 

[jdp93]

The young protagonist in Black Swan Green swipes a few sprays of his father's Givenchy Gentlemen before a school dance and it brings him good luck.

 

[Zig the Pirate]

The Hand That Rocks the Cradle:
The mom wears Dior Poison as her perfume. The nanny is allowed to borrow it, which she uses to try to seduce the husband.

 

[BudgetShaverGuy]

In the memoirs I’ve written in an alternate timeline and parallel universe, I was a 6th grader who wore Drakkar Noir to the school dance where I won over the most gorgeous woman in the 7th grade, and lived happily ever after.

 

[Zig the Pirate]

In the novel Pet Semetary, Rachel Creed wears Attar de Roses to have sexy time with Louis.

 

[Avi]

American Psycho: YSL Pour Homme in the shower / cologne cabinet.

Haha that is awesome ! I am sure YSL appreciated that