Solution No.8, from Off-White™ was released in 2024. The perfumer behind this creation is Emilie Bouge. It has the top notes of Bergamot, Ginger, Green Pepper, Pepper, Pink Pepper, and Saffron, middle notes of Agarwood (Oud), Leather, Myrrh, and Vanilla, and base notes of Ambroxan, Incense, Musk, and Patchouli.
I was sent this as part of a blind sniffing exercise to determine whether it was cheap or expensive. My general thoughts were that it smelled and probably should be...cheap but the overarching feel was one of minimal, hipster, modernity and as such I believed it to be expensive. I could just picture some hipster with a beard and a beanie hat, pedantically correcting something I said with an upward inflection at the end as if he was asking a question? This utter twattery and BANG ON the Money, blind appraisal aside, No.8 is a somewhat nondescript, peppery, woody perfume, which softens to the kind of musky, skin adornment one would associate with this sort of thing. Personally I can't hate this sort of thing, it's wearable for me but I do find it a bit bland and uninspired. Oh well.