Smell like a Pope

[Straight Arrow]

Most of us will never be the Pope but now at least we can smell like one:

http://www.thepopescologne.com/

[ouch]

I always associated the priesthood with vows of poverty.

[Sabledog]

....I always thought of old musky cellars, I'm not I'd want to smell like that!

It is cheaper by the dozen, he probably had a bunch stored in the cellar!

[CapeCodJay]

I always associated the priesthood with vows of poverty.


No such vow for priests, unless they belong to an order which mandates it. Like a Marion Father or Jesuit etc.

Our parish priest drives a Mercedes and has a ski chalet, not a bad gig.

[Straight Arrow]

No such vow for priests, unless they belong to an order which mandates it. Like a Marion Father or Jesuit etc.


That is correct. Additionally, no priest takes a vow of stench.

[analog_kid]

Don't we, for the most part, apply scents to please the other sex? I mean, if I was going to a game with the cardinals, I don't think I'd throw on Very Sexy for Men.

[farace]

No such vow for priests, unless they belong to an order which mandates it. Like a Marion Father or Jesuit etc.

A friend of mine was in the process of becoming a Jesuit priest (he's a "civilian" now, and married and happier than I've ever seen him) and he made a point at the time of telling me that, even though they took a vow of poverty, that didn't mean they were left wanting. Pretty much anything they needed was provided for them. They may not have actually owned anything other than a few personal items, but they had the use of most anything.

[judge]

kudos, if i were pope, I would not want a great smelling cologne if I were to be in meeting all day with cardinals, bishops etc now if I were Jimmy Swaggart or Jim Baker...

[guenron]

Don't we, for the most part, apply scents to please the other sex? I mean, if I was going to a game with the cardinals, I don't think I'd throw on Very Sexy for Men.

Oddly enough, NO! Cologne is cologne, not meant to be a pheromone. You've been compromised by the TV fragrance commercials and department store fragrance counters.

[Mama Bear]

I can't wait til they come out with scratch and sniff computer screens... :redface: :biggrin:

[Joe Frances]

Has anyone actually tried the fragrance?

I haven't tried the Pope's.

I have, however, tried "Cardinal" by Heeley, which is an excellent citrus/incense fragrance.

[Howard Newell]

Never really wanted to smell like a pope...I vividly remember a National Geographic having a scratch and sniff page of what Napoleon's cologne probably smelled like. Now THAT's who I want to smell like...unlike his wife.

[SilkySmooth]

They should market it under the name of the current Pope. Instead, everyone is smelling like dead Pope.

[michaelskar]

there is a horrible altar boy joke to be made here...but I'll not make it (directly).

[duna]

A friend of mine was in the process of becoming a Jesuit priest (he's a "civilian" now, and married and happier than I've ever seen him) and he made a point at the time of telling me that, even though they took a vow of poverty, that didn't mean they were left wanting. Pretty much anything they needed was provided for them. They may not have actually owned anything other than a few personal items, but they had the use of most anything.

that's correct, provided the abbey/order/cloister/etc has the money. Once I was asked to prepare an offer for 'editorial' (do such an adjective exists in English?) project for an ancient and important abbey, and to look at the stuff they escorted me to a very spartan cell (that of a monk expert of IT) provided with the most astounding Apple Mac workstation in existence at the time, with colour laser printer, mega display etc...
I also remember that the local (mainland Venice) Capucine cloister (a REALLY spartan place) begun to print nice A5 booklet for chants etc well before the mass of we word processor users, and without fancy Mac workstations (they worked on a common PC instead, with common but well-understood software).