You'll have to forgive me that it's taken so long to take the time to read your posting from a few days ago, but it was intimidatingly long and I don't feel like writing tonight...

Maybe, I realise as I type and read, read and type, that what I actually object to is purple prose. So rather than character v. plot, I should be talking deft and revelatory v. over-writing.

Horses for courses.

I found the first opening difficult to read through, though the two lines you picked out were pleasingly erotic. The second is more colourful and (I admit) heavily overdone, but far more appropriate for a different kind of book that I also enjoy reading...

A very good editor I met through WW talks about getting tone right for the story...

I don't think you can stick to one or the other, but use the one that is right. In my current WIP, the first page is a little purple and a lot in the head of one specific character. The rest of the next few chapters is much flatter and third-person. That's because of who and what I am writing at the time.

Sorry, I think I've spent a lot of words to say basically; do what feels right.