This week’s question: Fashion house Dior is selling Bonne Étoile, a baby and toddler-friendly “scented water” that, at $230 a bottle, encapsulates "the tenderness of childhood." If Dior were to release a fragrance that captures the frustrations of parenthood, what name could it give the scent?
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THE WINNER: Eau-verwhelmed
Scott Ludwig, Senoia, Georgia
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John Parry, Eldersburg, Maryland
Norm Carrier, Flat Rock, North Carolina
Eau What I’d Do for Sleep
L’Air du Temper Tantrum
Jesse Rifkin, Arlington, Virginia
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