You or Someone Like You
“In On the Road, Jack Kerouac wrote: “Los Angeles is the loneliest and most brutal American city.” It's the city described by Woody Allen's character in Annie Hall as the city where "the only cultural advantage is being able to turn right on a red light."
But dreamers come for the light of the sun and the possibilities, to this land of opportunities, where hope springs eternal. Whatever they are seeking - happiness, love, money, fame - temptations draw them deeper and deeper into this concrete paradise.
And you, dreamers, with your dreams, you can flourish, you can wither, but you do not give up. You keep coming, or you think about coming, and sometimes you stay.
Because someday, someone could be looking for you, pointing at you, wanting you. Or someone like you.
“As many have observed, Los Angeles is not a city. It is a state of mind. A strange amalgamation of places and languages. Los Angeles is rivers of concrete roads and endless strips of asphalt, traffic and, despite all this or because of it, one of the most beautiful and impressive places on earth, a beauty made by nature and shaped by people. , the cobalt sky and tan greens of desert parks, the ocean mist, the white, delicate yellow flowers of jasmine and honeysuckle that grow on the parking signs that say 'Parking Permit, Only Violators Will Be Towed.'
"You or someone like you is not the 'smell of Los Angeles' or 'the smell of the Hollywood Hills captured.' It's not one of those olfactory synecdoches. It is, on the other hand, stylistically and in its technical construction what a resident of Los Angeles would use. It is contemporary, from the 21st century.
You or Someone Like You is a welcoming fragrance: neither unpleasant nor strange. It is a contemporary creation built around timeless materials.
He embodies the inhabitants of Los Angeles; once a foreigner but now a native; very exposed to the dreams of the big screen of Hollywood but untouched by its materialistic machinery. He finds solace in literature and in the garden of his home, which is located in the hills overlooking downtown Los Angeles.
The scent represents them in the way that all those choices represent us. It can be concrete, like a beautiful green rose. However, it can be abstract, like an Erik Satie composition, since it is such a mysterious puzzle that it is difficult to unravel.
The perfume invigorates the senses with its fresh and welcoming appeal.”