Perhaps you've heard about the T-Shirt where the front says "Change Is Good" and the back says "You Go First". It is interesting to me that no one has touched this thread after over eight waking weekday hours in North America and Europe. Well, here goes ...

You don't have to embrace androgyny, although I would encourage you not to resist it either. Be yourself, wear any fragrance you like, and celebrate differences between the sexes with integrity, which is to say, with like minded partners and as you see fit. Frankly, no matter how much longevity and sillage you have going on, I doubt wearing a vintage fragrance will announce anything to the world except for the scent. OTOH if the world is changing in ways that trouble you, then you have some work to do to come to terms with that. Otherwise, you will not be at peace, and your quality of lif e will suffer. Regardless of what you do, the world will do what it does, and your choice of fragrance won't much change its course.

There is a reason that "What is the world coming to?" is a well known question , and one most often asked by older people. It was already well known when I was little, so there is nothing new about it (except perhaps that things change more rapidly now). I liked your post and responded to it for several reasons. You raised an issue that I think is perennial, important, and understood differently, I think, by older and younger people. But above all, I liked and responded for my selfish reasons: I'm a senior citizen, but some decades back I began a lifelong process of cultivating a new outlook - an approach not focused on issues of age, sex, etc., but still relevant to dealing with aging and societal changes. It has come in handy.