Texas yellow star
Cumin
Leather
Horsehair
Tonka bean05/03/2025
ScentNebula
52 Reviews
ScentNebula
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3
Juicy green, stemmy, indolic nectar-dripping pollen-rich waxy yellow flowers
I’m starting to notice an annoying pattern: about 9 out of 10 times when I sniff a supposed “leather” perfume, I can’t smell any leather at all.
I thought this was supposed to be a cowboy perfume, but all I get is a rich, intensely scented yellow flower with a fresh, green, stemmy quality and a strong indolic honey-pollen that takes on a decidedly urinous quality in the drydown. At least we can all agree this one smells like piss.
I also don’t get any tonka bean and if there’s cumin, it’s very in the background.
You know when you get a fresh haul of perfume samples in the mail, and there’s one note that the whole package smells like when you open it? Well, in this case, it was unfortunately the urine note from Untameable. At first I wondered if someone’s cat had peed on the parcel.
To top things off, somehow while taking the cap off later on, I managed to partially unscrew the lid and spill it all over my fingers. Of all the samples I got this is surely the worse one to have an accident like that with. It took some effort to scrub the smell of my fingers and I think the outside of the bottle is permanently imbued with the scent. It's been several days and I still keep getting whiffs of it throughout the house. It's that potent. However, this repeated exposure to the more challenging aspects of the scent have made me realise how much I love it.
To me, in the opening it smells like walking past an intensely scented exotic flowering plant in the botanical gardens, probably something with waxy white or yellow flowers, and getting a noseful of that almost fecal nectar scent that some flowers have, and there’s fallen, decaying flowers all over the ground as well, getting crushed under your feet as you walk. It’s very photorealistic to that experience in my opinion, and it has a fresh airiness from the florals alongside the darker stinkier notes.
Then in the drydown, as the urine note comes out more along with a kind of creamy floral, it starts to remind me of moonlit, humid summer nights, walking through cobblestone alleys reeking of urine, past indolic creeping jasmines that drape themselves over the trellises in people’s back gardens. It reminds me of the thick, electric energy in the calm before a summer storm, the feeling of tension, danger and excitement.
I have not spent much time around horses, so I can’t really comment on the accuracy of a horsey scent here. All I can say is it’s mostly floral on me, and quite a sweet floral at that (but sweet in a natural honey/nectar way, not a foody way).
This scent is difficult to wear and SO strong and lingering. Unfortunately, the immense projection and longevity is too much for me. It’s inescapable, exhausting. There’s also the fact that I’m afraid to be around people within 2 days of wearing it. But it doesn’t change the fact that I love it.
I thought this was supposed to be a cowboy perfume, but all I get is a rich, intensely scented yellow flower with a fresh, green, stemmy quality and a strong indolic honey-pollen that takes on a decidedly urinous quality in the drydown. At least we can all agree this one smells like piss.
I also don’t get any tonka bean and if there’s cumin, it’s very in the background.
You know when you get a fresh haul of perfume samples in the mail, and there’s one note that the whole package smells like when you open it? Well, in this case, it was unfortunately the urine note from Untameable. At first I wondered if someone’s cat had peed on the parcel.
To top things off, somehow while taking the cap off later on, I managed to partially unscrew the lid and spill it all over my fingers. Of all the samples I got this is surely the worse one to have an accident like that with. It took some effort to scrub the smell of my fingers and I think the outside of the bottle is permanently imbued with the scent. It's been several days and I still keep getting whiffs of it throughout the house. It's that potent. However, this repeated exposure to the more challenging aspects of the scent have made me realise how much I love it.
To me, in the opening it smells like walking past an intensely scented exotic flowering plant in the botanical gardens, probably something with waxy white or yellow flowers, and getting a noseful of that almost fecal nectar scent that some flowers have, and there’s fallen, decaying flowers all over the ground as well, getting crushed under your feet as you walk. It’s very photorealistic to that experience in my opinion, and it has a fresh airiness from the florals alongside the darker stinkier notes.
Then in the drydown, as the urine note comes out more along with a kind of creamy floral, it starts to remind me of moonlit, humid summer nights, walking through cobblestone alleys reeking of urine, past indolic creeping jasmines that drape themselves over the trellises in people’s back gardens. It reminds me of the thick, electric energy in the calm before a summer storm, the feeling of tension, danger and excitement.
I have not spent much time around horses, so I can’t really comment on the accuracy of a horsey scent here. All I can say is it’s mostly floral on me, and quite a sweet floral at that (but sweet in a natural honey/nectar way, not a foody way).
This scent is difficult to wear and SO strong and lingering. Unfortunately, the immense projection and longevity is too much for me. It’s inescapable, exhausting. There’s also the fact that I’m afraid to be around people within 2 days of wearing it. But it doesn’t change the fact that I love it.
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