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My Signature
627 reviews
I got a sample of this with an order from Bastille. On card I swear it smells like tuna salad, very nauseating. Not sure I can bring myself to put it on my skin.
If the cigarette-skewing galbanum in Nightclubbing were to lose the cigarette element and instead be a brasher, bolder rendition of galbanum, it would be very similar to this. Very interesting perfume!
Exquisite but so short-lived I can't even begin to consider this a viable purchase. Such a shame. It's up there with the tonka as the best of this line for me.
On my quest to find a replacement for Over The Musk, this one isn't bad (although it's not the one either). It's like Over The Musk + powder and vanilla. It's just a bit too powdery and not musky enough to stand up to OTM. Update: one day and one shower later, and I can still smell this perfume. Such incredible tenacity is impressive but not always what I want, as now I have to fit my perfume choice around this.
Old dusty toys in an attic, the cat's been pissing on them for years, and you can smell the BO wafting from your armpits as you're cleaning it all out.
As with other perfume oils, it seems to be very light and sit very close to the skin for the opening, but when the oil warms up it slowly starts to project. This is very close to the EDP, but there's more depth and richness to the oud. Indeed, the oud comes forward more than the amber, unlike the EDP which is amber first with background oud. The oud recalls Dead of Night (moreso than in the EDP) and the rich, almost unctuous base recalls Melt My Heart with its semi-gourmand bitter chocolate note. You can't go wrong with Strangelove, and I highly recommend this oil to anyone who's a fan.
Starts like B.O., then it's a bouquet of sumptuous roses with a gaping anus in the middle. If you like that sort of thing, it's a good perfume. It's skankier than Ombre Nomade.
A more synthetic, inferior smelling Silence the Sea, although that's not to say this is a bad perfume. It's a Sephora-level marine scent while STS is high art.
On card this smells identical to Solo Vulcan by Loewe. I've yet to see if this holds on the skin too.
Narcotic, green, herbal, creamy lavender. It's a very strange perfume, but I can't get enough. It has a salty, buttery aura which makes me think of St Bees in the Lake District in Northern England on a hot summer's day, kind of like sea air with lots of gorse, heather and a smidgen of some honeyed yellow blossom. Absolutely marvelous.
