"Chic is the most impossible thing to define. Luxury is a humorless thing, largely. Chic is all about humor. Which means chic is about intelligence. And there has to be oddness - most luxury is conformist, and chic cannot be. Chic must be polite, but within that it can be as weird as it wants."

While listing his ten favorite fragrances, NY Times perfume critic Chandler Burr recalls Luca Turin’s definition of chic. Via Kottke