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Perfumes that smell like a memory you shouldn't have🤎
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items perfumes based on extremely specific objects/places that you would never expect to work as fragrance. Things that probably shouldn't be bottled but absolutely were and niche Perfumes That Do More Than Smell Good
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Here is my emotional damage, bottled as eau de parfum.💀
Perfume’s Weird Little Corner
Who the hell thought of this, and why do I suddenly need it?
Here is my emotional damage, bottled as eau de parfum.💀
perfumes that smell like places, memories, characters, strange little obsessions, beautiful disasters, and things that probably shouldn't be bottled but absolutely were. 🕯️🌧️🥀
sweet cake + dusty room + incense + smoke + nostalgia + something faintly sad. One reviewer described it as essentially a sweet cake in a quiet, dusty church
Last Birthday Cake
It's warm, woody, vanilla-heavy and nostalgic rather than aggressively strange.
Memoirs Of A Trespasser Imaginary Authors perfume
It smells like being alone beside a violent northern sea and thinking about someone you can't have.
EVERY STORM A SERENADE - FRAGRANCE
an old cabin in the Pacific Northwest, rain outside, woodsmoke, strawberry preserves, someone you shouldn't have fallen in love with.
CAPE HEARTACHE - FRAGRANCE
The whole thing feels like remembering a relationship incorrectly because you've romanticized it so much that the memory has become prettier than reality.
Yesterday Haze Imaginary Authors for women and men
Smells like: burnt matches, smoke, juniper, berries, cardamom, resinous woods.
A City On Fire Imaginary Authors for women and men
"Nostos” is the Greek concept of return — particularly the longing for a return that may be impossible. Etat Libre d'Orange connects the fragrance to Homeric epic, Achilles, the Trojan War and that aching concept of returning home changed by what you...
Nostos Etat Libre d'Orange for women and men
Top notes are Peach, Chantilly Cream and Bigarade; middle notes are Honeydew Melon and Jasmine; base note is Benzoin.
first peach of the season - fragrance
Perfume’s Weird Little Corner
old money, cigarettes, museums, funeral homes, lipstick,plastic, antique dolls, rain on asphalt, etc
A bizarrely charming combination of vetiver, vanilla, chestnut and smoky/woody facets. The name comes from a fictional character/concept involving an electrician who has let himself go
Fat Electrician - Eau de Parfum
Coffee, caramel, vanilla, amber and woods.
And this one has a reputation for being absurdly powerful. The kind of fragrance where you spray it once and six hours later someone in another postal code is like, “Why does it smell like coffee?”
The perfu...
Followed Kerosene for women and men
the perfumer says the composition was partly shaped by an AI formulation tool that suggested an unusual overdose of two ingredients. The final perfume became an exploration of difference, anomaly and unexpected beauty
She Was an Anomaly - Etat Libre d'Orange
the concept is fantastic: the smell of a violin-maker's workshop.
Wood.
Resin.
Varnish.
While still being very wearable
Bowmakers | Eau de Parfum
Who the hell thought of this, and why do I suddenly need it?
I want to smell like an unexplained lake phenomenon, a cave ecosystem, a thunderstorm, a cryptid, or possibly a haunted tennis court
Pumpkin, rose, ginger and spices.
The strange part is that the perfume was created around actress Tilda Swinton and the idea of her being a muse
Tilda Swinton Like This Etat Libre d'Orange for women
Ink, salt, incense, ambergris and darkness. It's attempting to evoke the deep ocean rather than merely smelling “aquatic.” Imagine being swallowed by black water while an old church bell somehow rings somewhere below you
Zoologist Squid Deluxe Bottle
Inspired by the mysterious unexplained booming sounds sometimes reported around lakes and bodies of water.
The fragrance itself is atmospheric and aquatic/woody.
You're literally wearing an unexplained phenomenon.
Mistpouffer Stora Skuggan for women and men
Honey, beeswax, pollen, florals, vanilla and warm resinous sweetness.
But rather than smelling like “honey perfume,” it attempts to create the entire interior atmosphere of a beehive.
Warm.
Dense.
Golden.
Waxen.
Almost claustrophobic.
Zoologist Bee Deluxe Bottle
Rose, tobacco, patchouli, cedar and dark green notes.
Bull's Blood Imaginary Authors for women and men
the goal isn't “make something conventionally pretty.”
It's trying to evoke an actual environment associated with bats: dark caves, damp earth, vegetation, fruit, minerals and humid air.
Zoologist Bat (2020) Deluxe Bottle