Bull's Blood Imaginary Authors 2012

Version from 2012

Bull's Blood (2012) by Imaginary Authors

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5.4 / 10 96 Ratings

A perfume by Imaginary Authors for women and men, released in 2012. The scent is animal-earthy. The production was apparently discontinued.
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Main accords

Animal

Earthy

Floral

Spicy

Woody

Fragrance Notes

Rose

Costus root

Patchouli

Black musk

Blood

Tobacco

Perfumer

Josh Meyer

Ratings

Scent

5.496 Ratings

Longevity

7.871 Ratings

Sillage

6.968 Ratings

Bottle

6.381 Ratings

Value for money

6.418 Ratings

Submitted by Franfan20, last update on 09/22/2024.

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Reviews

8 in-depth fragrance descriptions

01/04/2013

5
Sillage 7.5
Longevity 2
Scent

Silverfire
130 Reviews

Silverfire

Very helpful Review 8

Mr. Mothballs with a Urinal Puck in the Lounge

Bull's Blood goes on smelling like a low-class air freshener, the kind that you might find in a ghetto sled. (No, you can’t ask how I know that.) Within a few seconds, the unforgettable combination of mothballs and mint arrives. Actually, it’s mostly mothballs. The mint exists only as a mothball propellant, giving the scent a visceral punch. That’s the first ten-fifteen minutes.

Then the mint becomes menthol and amps up the mothball vibe, generating a sour smell like cleaning agent gone wrong. I’ve smelled something like it while shopping in a bargain grocery store once. By this time, I can imagine what Bull's Blood was supposed to be, which is a creamy, animalic, sweaty-fresh kind of deal, but it got lost along the way.

By two point five hours, it smells fresh and animalic, and it reminds me of urinal mints, rather distantly. This is a smell I could handle, but it’s not really gripping as an animalic nor really interesting or involving as something fresh. Three hours in, benzoin and a sweaty aroma join the party.

By hour six, it finally smells good – an animalic, spicy aroma, faintly urinal, sweet and musky. In this stage, it’s reminiscent of Cuir de’ Ottoman, however the silage is skin only, so it doesn’t have the lounge lizard vibe that cologne can give off. It’s more like you’re a lounge lizard on line, or only at home. By hour eight, Bull's Blood has begun its long kiss goodnight of a citrusy, urinal musk. Strangely enough, this is the best-smelling stage.

This is one for only thrill-seeking olfactionists. I can't imagine where or when you'd wear this, unless you have a little lounge lizard in you.

04/23/2013

7.5
Sillage 7.5
Longevity 6
Scent

Coutureguru
223 Reviews

Coutureguru

Helpful Review 6

The day that the circus left town ...

It seems that circuses and bullfights have the same thing in common ... THEY STINK! I applied this fragrance with some trepidation having read its rather macho/violent back story on the Imaginary Authors website ... I was hoping that it might be saved by the Rose and Patchouli.

I was wrong. Firstly, this fragrance immediately took my nose back to being an excited kid ... the circus used to set up in an open area not a kilometer from my house. Oh the excitement!! ... and the smell! Sawdust, hay and animals is what I immediately get on application of this fragrance. It actually reminds me of some virulent Ouds that I have encountered ... the kind I call 'barnyard-y'. It's mothball-y too ... quite unpleasant (I tip my cap at you Silverfire, you are spot on!) but thankfully this eases up after the first 10 minutes or so.
Bull's Blood turns a little creamy after that ... but weirdly so, like milk spilled on hot sand. A simpering little Rose tries to peep out at this stage but is thoroughly trampled by a heavy, root-like note which I assume is Costus, having never encountered it before. This wet, earthy smell is no doubt further exacerbated by a very raw Patchouli and what feels like wet, green Tobacco. I'm not sure what all of this has to do with Bulls, except for the fact that a 'cow-pat' effect comes through every now and then ... like a churned up field, or stables in serious need of mucking out. I have absolutely no idea why anyone would want to smell like this.
That said, I am also not denouncing this fragrance as rubbish, because it isn't. There is a very clear and well thought out development here ... I'm just not interested in going in the direction it suggests. Bull's Blood is for the adventuresome ... it reminds me a little of some of the more bizarre releases by Etat Libre d'Orange.

Sillage and longevity are both above average ... I'm afraid I'm going to have to scrub. High marks for bringing something different to the table Mr.Meyer ... unfortunately it may be a little too different. It certainly is for me.

03/05/2015

2
Scent

PBullFriend
308 Reviews

PBullFriend

3

Circus came to my house, and I chased it away!

Absolute, pure dung to my nose. I spent endless hours at a stable when I was a child, just to be around horses even when I couldn't afford one myself. So there is a bit of nostalgia here. But even then I did not go to the stable just to stand by the manure pile.

Dogs do have better senses of smell than we do, so I took this one to the experts. My beloved pit bull, who was rescued from the muck of Hurricane Katrina and probably ate rats to survive, was too refined for this one. I held my wrist out to him, and he sniffed lightly, then showed the whites of his eyes and backed away. My shepherd girl, who is, alas, a coprophage, moved closer to me and started to lick my wrist. So, there you have it! The most positive review so far comes from a shit-eater!

After nearly a half-hour, I found that this scent was entirely occupying my thoughts. I couldn't get any work done because I couldn't escape the thought, "I smell like a manure pile!" I scrubbed my wrist, hard, with a scented salt scrub, changed clothes, and it came right back at me. I killed it off with a generous spray of Kokorico, figuring its dense patchouli could penetrate the shitpile forcefield, and it did.

I bought this sample from Silverfire. So, now this sample has been through two people and is still more than half-full! This reminds me of the 1 ml sample of ELDO Secretions Magnifique I bought some years ago. I think that it was ultimately split five ways. As the Brylcreem ads used to say, "A little dab'll do ya!"

11/07/2023

9.5
Scent

DrB1414
207 Reviews

DrB1414

1

The Aftermath of a Bull Fight

Apparently, they decided to reissue Bull's Blood but dropped the Costus root for this second version. The most interesting part if you ask me. Now it is supposedly "more wearable and refined". Yawwwwns. I think the OG was a very unique and bold take on the Rose Patch genre. But perhaps now it will find more love among the masses.

The original version was one of the most unique takes on the Rose and Patchouli duo. On my skin, however, neither the rose nor the patch is much noticeable, and what really pushes out is the costus, tobacco, and a very dry leather accord. There's also a sour, almost metallic tinge to this, so I can see what they had in mind here with the blood accord. On paper, it's an interesting Rose-Patch with a bit of sourness. But on the skin, it's much much wilder. A notorious animalic perfume, deservedly so. The name is aptly chosen. It does smell of a big animal, a bull here, it's visceral and it takes no hostages. I really love the super dry leather accord in here. Dry and dusty leather. There's also a pencil-shaving woodiness underneath all. There are lots of various synthetic musks, and of course, the glorious Costus, giving off a strong animalistic character. The rose is there, playing together with that metallic, blood, sour wine accord, coming across quite disturbing, and the patchouli lends a bit of earthiness. Overall, this perfume smells dangerous. It smells of an accident. An accident, and the tragic aftermath. The superior animal, the bull here, walking triumphantly over the matador's body, red blood splattered all over the arena's sand. An amazing perfume. Very powerful, very unique. No doubt, one of the most daring scents I've ever come across. Yet beautiful and alluring, oh how alluring.

12/23/2023

Stacia
134 Reviews

Stacia

1

It's gonna be a Yikes from me

Was I expecting this to be a typical patchouli and rose combo? Probably, but that's not the case this time. I don't smell anything foul like some other reviewers, but I also don't smell anything particularly lovely. I'm trying to get away from assigning gender to perfumes but... this does smell like something more suited to a person with masculine energy. It's very YANG. Pungent, hot and slightly metallic. I don't know what costus smells like but that must be what's making this atypical and slightly barnyard. Somewhat herbal flowery but in a challenging "you looking at me?" way. You would need quite the intense personality to make a signature out of this one. I feel like it's slapping my nose.

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