Ambergris
Cement
Lubricating oil
Metal05/08/2025
kittea
65 Reviews
kittea
2
The machine runs out of steam
I used to work in a machine shop. It was honestly tedious work, just running part after part through a CNC lathe... but, like everything, it's nostalgic now that I don't have to do it anymore. There was a very particular smell to it from the coolant that the machines sprayed every time they ran: oily, sweet in a bizarre kind of way. Deus Ex Machina, as soon as it hits my skin, smells exactly like that industrial coolant.
It's really fantastic the way it captures the memory, but it doesn't last. In about half an hour it turns to a strangely sour note, like a green apple candy, and peters out into smelling like wax. It feels as if the creators had one really good idea (a perfume that smells like industrial coolant) but couldn't figure out where to go from there. I wonder if they were expecting people to just smell it out of the bottle for the novelty, or to put it on fabric (perhaps to trick a date into thinking you were a DIY type?) and didn't think anyone would actually put it on their skin... I don't expect it to keep smelling of coolant throughout the drydown, but it needs to actually go somewhere.
It's really fantastic the way it captures the memory, but it doesn't last. In about half an hour it turns to a strangely sour note, like a green apple candy, and peters out into smelling like wax. It feels as if the creators had one really good idea (a perfume that smells like industrial coolant) but couldn't figure out where to go from there. I wonder if they were expecting people to just smell it out of the bottle for the novelty, or to put it on fabric (perhaps to trick a date into thinking you were a DIY type?) and didn't think anyone would actually put it on their skin... I don't expect it to keep smelling of coolant throughout the drydown, but it needs to actually go somewhere.
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