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Simply one of the most delicious masculine fragrances I've ever smelled. Magnificently smooth, sweet incense smoke laced with pungent but perfectly blended spices on a bed of leather and woody notes. It smells quite a lot like CDG 2 Man, but only the resinous amber drydown (the best part, imo), not the powdery-aldehydic opening notes.
When I was initially sampling it (from a dabber vial), I found Scorpio Rising even more velvety and refined than 2 Man. I was surprised, since you'd expect a perfume referencing Kenneth Anger’s infamous homoerotic occult biker film to smell a bit more dangerous, right?
Then I got a bigger spray sample and the difference is noticeable! From an atomizer, you get way more pungent, aromatic top notes (not just the warm-spicy ones) that feel a little skunky and swampy. Cannabis isn't a listed note, but the smoky-leathery-herbal facets combine to give a touch of bong water or body odour—which honestly makes me a little less enamoured with the fragrance but definitely evokes more of the occult-70s vibe that I had expected. Still an extremely sexy fragrance overall—pricey, but gorgeous.
Scorpio Rising from Eris Perfumes begins as a cool, citrusy pink pepper with rosy nuances, an artful enigma of a spice, more zingy herbal aromatic than the sting and pungent bite than you might expect. This is one of the more restrained Scorpios I’ve known, and while I don’t mean to generalize I can say that in my experience, there are two types of Scorpios: the one that is Very A Lot, they don’t hold back, you always know what they are thinking and they practically flay themselves open for you. They want you to have all of them, even and especially the ugly and scary bits. They wear their shadow side on their sleeve and their shadows aren’t very subtle, either. The other kind of Scorpio is not exactly secretive, silent-type, but their shadows are shrewd and sharp and you might not get to see them right away, but you always recognize they are there and you are inexplicably drawn to them like a moth to flame. While I am absolutely obsessed with pretty much all Scorpios, I think Eris’ Scorpio Rising falls more into the latter category and I wouldn’t automatically mark it as a bombastically passionate although I would say it has a quiet intensity that sort of sneaks up on you. After the cool, dry floral, and discreet fruitiness of the opening, there emerges delicate smoke and soft leather, woody-floral cardamom and immortelle’s elusive burnt sugar musk. This is the Scorpio you follow down shadowy corridors in a dream, following their lingering trail of scent, and when you’ve reached the dead-end abyss, the void at the end of the trail, you find they were behind you all along. This is the Scorpio that takes your hand as you jump into the darkness of the unknown.
Ambroxan overdose with Campbell's cream of mushroom soup, some pepper and herbs sprinkled on top.