If you show up to work after a long night out, smelling like booze and cigarettes, there are measures in place to alert you to this fact. Your co-worker reports you to HR, and HR calls you in to say you might have a problem—efficient. If you wear a high-potency night-out cologne to the office, there is no such process. We can help. Avoid any workplace drama with these subtle scents. —Luke Guillory, commerce editor
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From Loewe to Malin + Goetz, these smell good without over doing it.
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You probably buy fragrances because you want to impress those around you, right? Well, you need to actually be conscious about which fragrance you wear, because while some are good to wear around certain people (a prospective date, for instance), they might not cut it, say, in the office and around your colleagues. Like with music, there is a whole category of scents appropriate for coworkers.
You want to smell clean and fresh, but not overpowering - no one wants to be stuck in a boardroom for two hours with an overwhelming oud. You want a sophisticated aroma screams professional but doesn’t scream too loudly. We've done a deep dive into the world of fragrances to find you the colognes that you can wear to the office - and ones that might even get you a promotion.
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Jon Favreau didn’t intend to tell a story about the most intense single father in the universe when he created The Mandalorian TV series almost eight years ago. He just liked the look and vibe of Boba Fett and thought it would be cool to pair an ominous lone wolf with a cute and cuddly ward. That’s how Pedro Pascal’s masked bounty hunter joined up with the little green child we’ve come to know as Baby Yoda. The personal meaning, much of it drawn from Favreau’s own life, just snuck in.
This is part of Star Wars tradition. Many tales from the galaxy far, far away have drawn emotional power from the push and pull between generations. The combative and redemptive arc of Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker defined the original trilogy. In the prequels, Anakin Skywalker’s grief over his failure to save his mother drove him to dark extremes when faced with loss again. Even recently, The Acolyte, doubled down on overprotective mothers and defiant daughters.
The Mandalorian and Grogu makes it clear how much Favreau has been using the characters to search his own feelings. The series—and now the movie—reflect his broad thoughts on parents and kids, his own relationship growing up with a solo dad after the death of his mother, and the feelings he has as a father himself after raising three children who aren’t kids anymore.
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A sort of delirium set in. Dane had lived with us for almost a year now, lived in the shadow of death, and he and I found ourselves cracking jokes so dark, so morbid, that they defied explanation. We made a pact: If he married someday or if I remarried and one of our wives was diagnosed with cancer, the other would show up at the hospital and slip a knife between his ribs. A mercy killing. We cried laughing, imagining the puzzlement of witnesses on the scene: "This guy just walked in and stabbed him. And what's really weird? The dead guy told him 'thank you.'"
Later, when we had to take away Nicole's phone—probably the most difficult decision of the entire ordeal—she started leaving us venomous, drug-addled handwritten notes. They were heartbreaking. But her creativity and determination in delivering them took on an artistry. We couldn't figure out how she was doing it. "I got this on my pillow," Dane said one night. A crayon scrawl. I showed him mine, a loopy screed about needing her phone. "I found it in the bathroom," I told him, "stuck on the wall opposite the toilet, at eye level when sitting."
In our heartache and exhaustion, we both started to giggle. "You know what she's doing, right?" Dane said.
"What?"
"She's texting us."
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