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I know better than this, but I purchased a bottle of Fantomas from Nasomatto without having sampled it first, and I'm surprised to say...I actually rather enjoy it? It reminds me of ELdO's Ghost In The Shell, that bit of speculative lactonic peach, but I then realized what I was smelling in Fantomas was more along the lines of those Japanese milky honeydew melon hard candies. There's also a bit of sterile, plastic-y musk and digitally-rendered powdery porcelain heliotrope, and the more I sniff my wrist, the more I am convinced that this creamy floral/vinyl musk is what the uncanny valley of a really expensive sex doll smells like. I've not smelled any sex dolls, either of the budget or the big-spender variety, but I have got a big imagination, and I'm pretty sure I know what I know. Anyway, I like it!
standing outside of a factory filled with old machinery leaking liquified candy and melon juice, and all you want to do is go inside and smell more
It just shouldn't work, should it? But it does. As it develops, I'm getting geranium, or at least some hint of minty geranium, and quite a lot of geosmin. The candy sweetness has been replaced with a sort of sweet soily richness. I'm impressed with how much of a journey this fragrance is taking me on... It certainly is unrelenting. After two hours, it's reminding me of the drydown of Geranium Pour Monsieur. Which is fine by me, but I wasn't expecting it.
It smells like an experiment where some sort of bionic lifeform has been created, the intersection of electronics, plastic and biology.... synthetic biology. Love it. (perhaps the amorous robots from All Is Full of Love would smell like this)
The image this paints for me when I wear it is a small town old beach-front shop in the UK that's full of inflatables and plastic buckets and spades warming up in the light of the summer sun, mixed with an air of slightly melting sweets. The warmth of the old wood frames in the old building releasing a nostalgic warm wood scent, the creamy smell of warm lotion-soaked skin, all being washed over by a fresh sea breeze coming in through the door.
Despite what you may think from the notes, this is absolutely a scent to wear in WARM WEATHER. Pick a nice day where the temperature is in the low to mid 20's celsius and sunny. The ozonic and melon notes really come out and sing, and the darkness in the backbone of this become more like a creamy skin vibe in the warmth. In the winter this can go a bit flat and not really punch the same, and feels like you're not getting the full blast of what this scent is all about.
Absolute genius perfumery, with I think a reputation plagued by people's aversion to what's on the notes list. Ignore that and just try it.