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Geosmin, piss and mould.
Who needs Sombre and Secretions Magnifiques when you have this most putrid rot to smell? Honestly it's horrendous. What I will give it, is that this is indeed what I imagine a filthy sloth would smell like, crawling down the tree to its latrine (this perfume definitely includes the latrine), with traces of rotting fruit in its pelt. And a bird has shat on it at some point too. That's what this smells like. I still appreciate its existence from afar, but who in the hell wears this is beyond me.
Smells like actual birdshit. In a way I'm impressed. It reminds me of Secretions Magnifiques insomuch as it's a finely crafted repulsive smell. If you were to seize a gross, diseased urban pigeon and shove your face into its plumage I think it would smell like this, there's even a faint whiff of car fumes, and it gets worse, and stronger, over time. Now I'm 20 minutes in and I'm getting the urine accord everyone else mentions. It's like stale urine in a grotty public toilet.
Very strange, sort of sharp, minty opening, kind of like if you made tuberose flavoured herbal toothpaste, with a somewhat bucolic, meadowy undertone, all the while maintaing the black orchid DNA, which is immediately apparent. I don't quite understand what I'm smelling yet. What.i can say is that all of the above listed notes are there and are strong, although not quite as muscle-bound as the tyrannical BO EDP. There's something sour under it all that I pick out more where my skin is warmest (inner elbow), a sort of off-smelling, yeasty, hoppy fizz. What is this perfume doing? One of the craziest scents I've tried and I've tried a shit ton. Bravo maybe.
Creamy, sweet vetiver and wormwood. I sprayed this on one wrist in Galeries Lafayette then walked to work, and within 3 hours I'd ordered a cheap bottle online. It lacks the OTT fixative stink that makes some Gaultieri fragrances almost unwearable, instead serving delicious Absinth wafts for hours. I don't get the complaints about performance, I'm actually relieved that this doesn't permanently stay on my clothes and choke out a room. I don't get the brand copy for this scent, wanking on about hysteria etc. This is a gentle, polite and smooth fragrance.
Characteristically screechy scent from Nishane which will obfuscate any other aroma within 2km. It smells good, but it's too strong. Update: actually I retract the last comment. The dry down starts to go truly evil after 30 mins. It's a scrubber.
At Nishane, quality means being as suffocatingly, obnoxiously strong as possible, so that nobody within a 500m radius will escape without a headache and singed nostril hairs, and this is up there as one of the most over-the-top, jarring, nauseating horror-shows of their line. I don't know who would wear this, but I don't want to be in the same building as them.
Opens very similar to Girl by CdG (also by Lie) but then the pine comes in, and the complexity develops, and it becomes grown up, rich and sensual. Wonderful.
A busy fragrance reminiscent of Nishane belters (a less aggressive Fan Your Flames perhaps). Not for me but very nice all the same.
Something about the playful, sweet, boozy accord reminds me of Pierre Guillaume's Paris Fidji.
If I understand latin (which I don't), the name translates as Horse Body. It opens as such, then rapidly dries down to a sligjty underwhelming violety, pungent leather affair. I'd prefer it if it had a barnyard oud element because as it stands the animalic, horsey bent is switched up quite quickly for a generic, albeit high quality leather.
