Profile 1: Medusa 2017

Profile 1: Medusa by Ikiryō
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8.2 / 10 65 Ratings
Profile 1: Medusa is a popular perfume by Ikiryō for women and men and was released in 2017. The scent is smoky-floral. The longevity is above-average. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Smoky
Floral
Resinous
Spicy
Sweet

Fragrance Notes

EmbersEmbers FrankincenseFrankincense Peru balsamPeru balsam AmberAmber Black roseBlack rose BlackberryBlackberry CognacCognac LabdanumLabdanum CarnationCarnation CloveClove MuskMusk PatchouliPatchouli StoneStone MagnoliaMagnolia Spanish mossSpanish moss
Ratings
Scent
8.265 Ratings
Longevity
8.559 Ratings
Sillage
7.558 Ratings
Bottle
8.144 Ratings
Value for money
6.516 Ratings
Submitted by FRAgrANTIC, last update on 20.02.2024.

Reviews

3 in-depth fragrance descriptions
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Bottle
8
Sillage
9
Longevity
10
Scent
Gandix

88 Reviews
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Gandix
Gandix
Top Review 43  
A love beyond death
This Medusa
only wanted to love,
exude her beguiling vanilla fragrance.
But with her beauty and difference
she attracted the envy and suspicion
of the people around her She was shunned and outcast,
yet she had softened the heart of a young nobleman.
The mob, on the other hand, allowed themselves to be stirred up to such an extent,
that they blinded her and put a curse on her.
Her hair became snakes,
and she could no longer look anyone in the eye,
especially not the young man He would immediately turn to stone.
A rival spoke very ill of Medusa to the nobleman,
that this was her true face,
her true nature.
And in the end, it was he who cut off her head.
She was burned,
the head charred into a lump of plastic....

But deep inside, that love for Medusa
was still in his heart.
He could not let go of her.
Her death stabbed like a knife into his heart.

The young man left all his worldly goods behind
and departed.
He took the mortal remains of Medusa with him.
In a piece of woodland he dug a small hole with his hands,
laid her gently in it
and covered her with tender leaves.
He wanted to smell her,
for through the leaves, the smoke of mischief and the plastic,
still permeated a hint of her graceful vanilla scent.

Thus he sat many years, guarding her grave,
that at least in death no one might harm her again.
His heart was broken by painful, unrequited love.
Delicate carnations began to grow over the grave,
Blackberries entwined themselves over it,
and after many years had passed,
a single, jet-black rose.
The rose twined slowly and lovingly
around the man who was frozen in stone.
She bore no thorns.
She drew him slowly and ever deeper to Medusa's grave.

Now when the man had left his worldly life behind,

the curse fell away from Medusa.
She once again exuded her so lovely vanilla scent,
which merged with his balsamic-ambered one into a unity.
A love beyond death.

I don't know yet if I want to wear this fragrance,
the course with the plastic (for me it is) is already difficult. Yet it is filled with so much sadness
that touches my heart.
It carries this contradiction of 'good - evil', 'beauty-decay',
as I have never come across in any other perfume.
What is it in the end?
An amazing and wonderful creation.
35 Comments
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Bottle
10
Sillage
10
Longevity
10
Scent
Gschpusi

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Gschpusi
Gschpusi
Top Review 1  
Beauty with golden wings
I don't really want to get bogged down in Greek mythology, even if the fragrance is supposed to describe Medusa. But I would also like to tell you - because it reflects the fragrance so beautifully - what the beginning was like.
Medusa was not always so enchanted and frightening. She was a true beauty with golden wings. She lived in the north and guarded an entrance to Hades. Unfortunately it was very dark there, without sunlight. Her contact with the deceased let her experience the beauty and power of the sun and now she wanted to see it. Her request to the goddess Athena to be allowed to guard the one entrance in the south unfortunately failed. Athena did not grant her this wish. Medusa got angry and the two fought. So Medusa went south without permission.
When she arrived she met Poseidon and they fell in love. They started a hot affair and chose a temple dedicated to Athena. Athena experienced this and she punished her furiously by turning Medusa, the former beauty, into an ugly, fearsome monster with snake hair and the deadly gaze. She also banished Medusa to a place where most of the monsters live. So much for that.
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Medusa from Ikiryo - the flowery variant !! - is a truly divine beauty. The beginning smells beguiling, tingling with fruity champagne. Expensive and noble. Each blackberry flipped individually into the glass. Blubber bubbles rise up and it smells heavenly. A garden with rose arches, along which dark roses entwine. The thorns as long as pins and just as pointed. Heavy and richly scented. You walk barefoot - sent through the champagne - over moss and grass, roughen earth with your toes and it smells earthy-green, patch in its almost purest form. Strolling under a magnolia tree, which already shows its full splendour of flowers and whose delicate, almost shy scent can only be perceived when the flowers are crushed. Then it gets darker, a little cooler, you step again through a rose arch, around which black roses entwine this time. Threatening and cold. Black as night, but enchantingly beautiful. Gentle veil of mist that smells of clear and ecclesiastical incense circles you like a cloak and clings to you. Protection? In front of Medusa? The moss has stopped growing and it's getting stony. Mineral rough and grey, a bit dry and wouldn't be the hope that flashes like little amber stones, one would be lost.
Medusa, the flowery Medusa... so beautiful, so wonderful, so beautiful.
A fragrance so dense and full with so many facets can only be divine.
The bottle is darkly attractive. The fragrance keeps a felt eternity and the consistency a little oily and high quality.
Thank you my dear!
P.S. I don't perceive this fragrance as unisex but as definitely feminine
11 Comments
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Bottle
8
Sillage
8
Longevity
9.5
Scent
Can777

121 Reviews
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Can777
Can777
Top Review 38  
Gorgonia
They stand there in fear and panic. Like they're carved out of rock and stone, as if they're still alive. Mouths wide open for the last scream and breath. Even the tears they shed in the last second of their being have become stony pearls on their faces. Fire bowls flicker and light up the temple with twitching light. Grotesquely the flames make the human statues dance in the glow of the flames. As if they wanted to move one last time. The floor and amphorae are covered with ashes and dust. Filled with dying flowers of black roses and carnations. Cool and dry the rotten marble breaks in the torchlight. Handprints in the dust and scratch marks on the columns. The air is filled with the burning embers of the extinguished torch and the dead weeping flowers. Decay and erotic fear permeate the air. Not far away the dull sound of the harp. Followed by humming song and soft sighs. She's not far away... she's coming!

Profile 1: Medusa
...is not perfume in the conventional sense. It's a liquefied mythological drama. It is the decay of beauty into perfection. A perfume infused with the cold, stony death. A perfume from which life gradually gives way during its performance. The scent of flowers such as roses, carnations and magnolias that slowly decay into dust and smoky ashes. Bitter cloves and dark woody-dry tones of patchouli and the scent of earthy and dried moss give the perfume a morbid and ancient aura. Smoky and burnt nuances run through Profile 1: Medusa like extinguished torches or a fire. All heat gives way towards the end and becomes stone.cool,dry,cold and rigid.

Conclusion
Vincent Dreamhouse of Ikiryo created Profile 1: Medusa, a perfume that couldn't better show the boundaries between beauty and decay. Life and death in harmony, a morbidly beautiful and enticingly disturbing ancient tale. A perfume that fascinates and shocks. Vincent Dreamhouse always manages to create a unique atmosphere with his creations that I have rarely experienced. An artist who goes further with his works than many others would dare to. Profile 1: Medusa is, by the way, a fragrance of several of a series of historical figures such as: Anne Boleyn, Louis XV, Heka and Adrienne Lecouvreur.

Profile 1: Medusa is also available in two different versions. The one I have described is the drier, stonier and less flowery version. The other one is the more flowery version and the process of petrification is going on slowly. I was allowed to test both. Both fragrances are only available on request and are only made on demand,because they are not on the official website.

Profile 1: Medusa is not only a perfume,...it's a time travel into a face!
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