"These are the perfect kind of sneakers. You can't even tell who made them. And they're $12.99. But, do you think they can breathe?"

He sticks his hand into a shoe and blows on the exterior to see if he can feel air. No go. He puts the shoes back.

He wanders into a shop filled with candles, incense and religious paraphernalia. An elderly clerk is watching the news and doesn't seem to have time for Grenier.

"Do you have a candle that enhances fashionability?" he asks. The man grunts.

"Does this work for finding things?" Grenier asks as he holds up a tall green candle festooned with Catholic icons. The man grunts again.

Grenier settles on a spray can of the essence of St. Anthony and a bottle of Aerosol de Amor. Total: $6.

"I'm hoping this will get the right creative atmosphere in our place," he says a few minutes later, perfuming Brooklyn with the lemon-lime scent of the saint. Either that, or a cleaning service might work.

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