Last night I was watching a 1990 French film The Hairdresser's Husband (French: Le Mari de la coiffeuse). At one point the husband says: "The wrong name can wreck a product. How can a man called Givenchy sell so much perfume?" Can someone please elaborate on the connotations of the name Givenchy? Is it just a vulgar reference to vent = wind or something a bit subtler?|||It rhymes with 'stenchy'. Like the scent 'Lynx' rhymes with 'stinks'.|||There was an old vaudeville act, then radio comedy, featuring ventriloquist Edgar Bergen, and his famous dummy character wiseguy Charlie McCarthy. Another dummy character was the hick Mortimer Snerd. I always admired his name as the most nerdy sounding name imaginable. The music and the puppet's behavior all fit into that theme convincingly.
I would never by a cologne named after Mortimer Snerd.|||I would not buy a perfume with the name "Givenchy". Yes, marketing is everything to the draw (including the name), but the fragrance sells it from there.|||It reminds me of the word anchovy for some reason....
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