Perfume / Cologne

No no it's actually really interesting!

It's about an art exhibit of smells.

The Art and Olfaction awards. The award winner that created a smell narrative of celebrity deaths is only a part of the article.

just got in another shipment of scents from my friend joseph

excited :D

Got CdG Amazingreen for xmas, reviews of it are so middling but I am telling you it smells so fucking incredible, a bit masculine but definitely not assertively so, very foresty and green with hints of like gunpowder and spice, it is like everything I have ever wanted in a fragrance. I might like it even more than Margiela's "untitled". Cannot recommend enough.

stop assaulting my disposable income!!

get a tester of it, all these ppl whine and moan abt how very BLUE it is and how very PEDESTRIAN and MASS-MARKET it is, and i agree that it's much more approachable and less challenging than many other CdG frags but it does NOT read pedestrian or mass-market to me, it seems v unique and interesting, and also i'm not really getting the blue, it seems so green to me

I mean I know you are v into CdG Black and also wearing black clothes and Amazingreen is much softer so idk

I am wearing a $3.50 Acqua di Gio knockoff. The scent is dead on but fades quickly.

nah, I had a tester it's nice

It pains me to say it, but I don't think I've ever heard a better Badn

was just looking for Stevie's recommendation and have to say amazingreen is really nice

It's great but its longevity is poor and it stays very close. I couldn't spent £80 on something that disappears after an hour. It is a really beautiful scent for 30 minutes though. One of my favourites but doesn't have staying power.

yaasssss

rn I am into a bunch of these things I got at some boutique perfumirie in Berlin:

https://www.frau-tonis-parfum.com/en/

I just bought four Demeter frags for super cheap! Dirt, Grass, Tomato, and Greenhoue (the first 3 were $25 ea and came in a set for $30 total, which was great bcz I was specifically looking to buy Dirt and Grass).

Have not tried them on yet but am super stoked

(also Greenhouse was a free gift for ordering the $30 set, idk what they are doing over there but I'm not complaining)

I'm realizing that I've gone from "dabbling in frags w/ a slight curiosity" to, like, being in possession of 20 diff frags now (most of them v small testers but still)

slippery slope

been wearing a mix i made of black poplar, douglas fir, rosewood, hinoki and orange lately

can we just take a minute to appreciate what a great name for a perfume 'Fracas' is

Better than http://oldschoolmemories.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/tramp.jpg?

but not as good as https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPKigfGYwKE

the demeter stuff is p cool, whether in the context of it being used in theatre, or as a cologne, or just for general amusement. dirt is really good as a cologne tho.

the earl grey one is nice. there are so many. there's one called funeral home that is good if you want to wear a strange scent as a joke.

in theatre??

i think my new frag is gon b 1 spritz each of dirt and grass

my boyf and i saw funeral home on the web page and were horrified

there's an immersive theatre company called punchdrunk and they use the scents a lot in their shows. like you walk into a room and it is a forest and smells of dirt. their only running show is in nyc at the moment, sleep no more - i think that uses some demeter stuff too, most of their shows do. i've noticed other companies copying this a bit.

people still do this?

rather than put an air freshener in my car I used a half dozen sprays of a nice neutral scent on a paper towel and threw it in the back seat

smells way good in there

Which chemicals?

ethanol mostly but that evaporates real quick

I'm wearing CB I Hate Perfume's Soaked Earth, kind of an evolution of Dirt by the same perfumer. Good rainy day scent.

is that the one that's milky white? I think I've tried that before and I liked it a lot; it was the first thing I thought of when I smelled Dirt (well, the second after "omg this smells like dirt")

Yes - it's one of their accords, a building block for other scents. I also have the North Atlantic accord, a really fresh but delicate scent I tend to use in warm weather. Soaked Earth has a bit more of an organic quality than Dirt, and I suspect it may play a role in some of their earthier scents like Wild Hunt and Invisible Monster.

i have a tester of lalique encre noire and it's really compelling. not saying you should like it but i can't stop sniffing my arm. it's vetiver-heavy like terre d'hermes but replace the orange with cyress. it's supposed to have an inky note to it and i don't know if it's power of suggestion but i have an inkstone and some inksticks with the japanese characters on them and a bamboo brush for doing swoopy washes and that's the concrete manifestation of this. i like it.

i also have the narciso rodriguez for him bleu noir which i bought straight up from the department store; it was so good i didn't want to wait to dick around online and buy it cheaper. it's just a good and quality scent if you like that kind of thing. the regular narciso rodriguez for him is supposed to be a take on the classic aromatic fougeres from back when but they didn't have it. anyone familiar with it?

in the same category i sampled the cartier declaration essence. also vetiver-heavy, though not as intense, with lime and tea top notes. nice, and relaxed. one time i told a girl she was cute and she was insulted. i told her, you don't even know. i think that it's the same sort of thing; you can attack by retreating. not as immediate as terre d'hermes or encre noire but it keeps working on me.

also i was gifted bvlgari aqua marine. it has that seaweed note which comes off as swamp thing initially and i was like that ren and stimpy horse with the "no sir, i don't like it" but it dries down to a different type of marine note: cold, murky lake water instead of salty sea breezes like the usual. it really is chilling, like diving off a dock at a lakeside campsite in late september after the boys of summer have gone, but you realize the clouds have obscured the sun and it's really too cold out to be in the water and you get out and you're shivering and a bit stank and you dry off with a towel and get all up into the campfire but the chill is set into your bones. that's what i get, which is pretty refreshing in this heat right now.

others i think i like:

dolce and gabbana the one
hermes un jardin sur le nil
bvlgari black (just black, not man in black or man black)

i'm sticking to designer mostly because niche is pricey.

hermes concentre d'orange verte i also like enough.

"cypress" not "cyress" for the lalique. cyress i believe was the only good thing abt real world boston.

nb i know he's cyrus but jokes.

i looked it up, it's syrus. joke still holds.

jason still kind of a dick, although there was that time when he and syrus and sean were going to get the log for the kids at the youth center to do the log rolling thing and "more than a feeling" came on the radio and sean instinctively turned it up and he and jason bonded over that intersection where they both visualized maryanne walking away and the division within the house dissipated, at least in that moment, so i guess he's ok, but syrus was like, whatever.

i'm really focused on vetiver-based scents at the moment, is what i'm getting at. sean seems like he'd be into tom ford grey vetiver eu de parfum, which is kinda dull and serious, but also clean and purposeful and sorta trustworthy.

that's probably the greatest moment in the history of television, although i'm not sure that tom ford is the way to tie it into the concept of fragrances.

not funny or good

yeah, i shouldn't drink and try to talk about things. even when i was typing all that mess i realized maybe djp at most cared about mtv's real world minutiae and there's no reason to drag him into this.

i read that iso e super is widely used in woody scents and florals as an intensifier and an extender. it's such a large molecule that it can block receptors and cause temporary anosmia and headaches. last few times i used the terre d'hermes i couldn't smell it at all, and it has one of the highest concentrations of iso e super out there. it wasn't just olfactory fatigue from getting acclimated to an overused scent because i couldn't smell anything else for a good hour after that.

the lalique and the cartier also are high on the list of scents with iso e super. i like the warm, buzzy effect that i attributed to the vetiver but i think that's the synthetic extender so i might have to go easy or cut them out. before i stated messing around with this the most recent fragrance i had was cool water, which i think is ok, but a lot of modern scents are too sweet/ gourmand-y like the muglers, or too light and citrus-y aquatic like all the aqua di gio progeny, or intensely spicy or powdery, musky club and date night scents like spicebomb or le nuit de l'homme.

i'm still entry-level and experimenting so i like to smell things before i get samples to see how they wear, which limits me to the selection at sephora and nordstrom.

this was a good revive and had me lolling on a blue saturday

very well done

considering some escentric molecules fragrances

i think i want to get a sample of molecule 01 just to see if i can smell the iso e super in isolation. i'm guessing i wouldn't smell much of anything in particular but would still recognize the visceral buzz i'm getting from the hermes or the narciso rodriguez which i might like more than the actual scents.

i ordered some cb i hate perfume samples from the perfumed court: at the beach 1966, wild hunt, and memory of kindness. these seemed like good starting points for this line as from what i've read they're pretty literal snapshots of the scenarios invoked, as opposed to their scents inspired by poems or novels. they didn't have the soaked earth so i got the demeter dirt. the imaginary authors line looks interesting too but i dunno just yet.

I have samplers of the escentric/molecule varieties and a couple of the molecules do seem like they're more the suggestion of a scent than an actual scent. The formulas using them as a base scent actually smell like perfume, and the molecule odor is actually more discernible than it is on its own!

ugh i have been meaning to go to cb i hate perfume for years and keep forgetting

i think my new frag is gon b 1 spritz each of dirt and grass

do you do this still? i got the cb i hate perfume samples and i really like memory of kindness and wild hunt as both wearable scents and as personal memory/ primordial image switches but the water perfume is as ephemeral as the demeters (maybe the cb absolute perfumes have more projection/ longevity) so i was thinking for a lot less (20 bucks per 4 oz. each vs. 100 bucks per 100 ml.each) i could get the demeter dirt, grass (or just earthworm instead of both since it's soil plus green notes), tomato, thunderstorm, snow (or frozen pond), cypress and/ or fraser fir, and log cabin (cedar plus oakmoss) and reasonably approximate a good six or seven (memory of kindness, winter 1972, black march, the fir tree, etc.) of the cbs using the note breakdown on fragrantica. i know the cb accords are supposed to be a step up but i have a compromised sniffer from smoking so the soil note in wild hunt seemed pretty close to the demeter dirt. i still would like to try some of the individual cb premium accords like north atlantic or wet pavement london, though, because cb seems to really focus on quality of individual notes, cf the rare flowers series.

also just having smelled dirt i feel like i've at least entered the 1990s scent-wise. you miss a lot of history if you don't keep up.

in defense of mediocrity and mall culture:

i also read a few christopher brosius interviews and i get the knock against the perfume-as-accessory orientation of mass-market designer scents but that of-the-moment quality is what makes hungry like the wolf or take on me so great. armani pour homme or farenheit, maybe those were good or maybe not ever or just not anymore given what we know now, i don't know anyone's tastes, i like them, but i grew up when monoculture and branding really meant something. the ubiquitous look of herb ritts ad campaigns, the wonderful pastels and warhol-derived newsprinty-dotted halftone graphics on OP t-shirts, nagel posters. some of those scents were loud and stupid but so was everything else and i have some awesome swatch watches from the 80s and early 90s, made almost entirely of plastic, and christopher brosius can't have them even if they're crap. i missed CKone and l'eau d'issey so they don't mean anything to me now, i smelled them at the mall and they're just ok, but that's like never having seen a tarentino film or having heard sneaker pimps or fastball. it's not the best the culture had to offer but it's mostly what the culture was and i'm not necessarily smarter for not knowing that stuff.

i like the fig leaf in hermes' un jardin de mediterranne so i'm gonna sample the philosykos, per thread recommendations, as well as the wonderwood and amazingreen, since i'm not completely averse to quality.