It was feminine to me for the first time smelling it but the rosey scent grew on me and all the different notes to together perfectly and make it a very good scent
Tremendous fragrance, the real black beast. The most both overhated and underrated fragrance ever. If we talk about getting the job done, there’s nothing like this. Of course the smell is not considered “classy“ or anything like that, but believe when I say it’s so damn powerful. It’s not 5 stars, but its close.
Smells like pickles and spicy rose. One of the only fragrances that has ever made me nauseous.
This is a weird perfume and probably should have been released by ELDO. A wondeful sweet rose and pepper opening quickly makes way for clovey, salty, fishy even, bizarro musky skank, still with a whiff of rose, sort of like you doused your rose bush in brine from a tin of mussels. If that sounds horrendous, it's because it is, but it's not as far gone as Secretions Magnifiques, there is merit here. I'm only 20 mins into the wear (at home) so I'll reserve judgement for now... It's certainly interesting and very cheap so no big deal if it turns out to be BS. OK, yeah, no. This smells more spunky than Secretions Magnifiques, or does it, I can't decide. I think it's some sort of interplay between the clove, flax and elemi notes. This is a difficult one to call, one day I hate it, another I'm obsessed. Drydown for me is hardcore sandalwood. The whole thing smells synthetic almost like an Absolus D'Orient from Guerlain.
Pear and watery rose rolled in brash smelling pink pepper.
Gradually, a metallic tang emerges along with slightly rubbery notes. It's fairly linear and doesn't develop so much as gradually lessen in intensity.
Synthetic smelling (this is a description, not a criticism), the projection and longevity are huge and the scent is resolutely unsubtle. This, combined with the linearity, is what prevents it being an outright love for me. It is so persistent and so naggingly in your face that it grows to be a little tiresome. Still, it's a brave and unusual designer scent that strays relatively far from the mainstream.
Alas, despite the imagery in the notorious advertising campaign it does not turn me into a muscular leather-clad hottie straight out of Kenneth Anger's Scorpio Rising.