Blamage Nasomatto 2014 Extrait de Parfum

Blamage (Extrait de Parfum) by Nasomatto

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7.7 / 10 450 Ratings

A popular perfume by Nasomatto for women and men, released in 2014. The scent is woody-spicy. The longevity is above-average. It is still in production.

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Main accords

Woody

Spicy

Sweet

Fruity

Synthetic

Perfumer

Alessandro Gualtieri

Ratings

Scent

7.7450 Ratings

Longevity

8.5384 Ratings

Sillage

7.8391 Ratings

Bottle

8.9414 Ratings

Value for money

7.1161 Ratings

Submitted by Franfan20, last update on 19.03.2024.

Reviews

10 in-depth fragrance descriptions

01/15/2021

6
Pricing 10
Bottle 7
Sillage 8
Longevity 8.5
Scent

Vrabec
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Vrabec

Very helpful Review 16

Not an embarrassment, but a bizarreness

Bi-zar-re-rie
Noun, feminine [the]
bizarre form, bizarre appearance; outlandishness in shape or form
Perfume crazy I am not so long to be a conscious witness of the "Nasomatto project". Also due to the price I let the fragrances until recently, about 6 years after the actual termination of the line out of consideration.
Retroperspektiv viewed the question arises to me, whether the failure in the attempt to create olfactory a mistake, because "conceived errors are controlled errors, and they simply do not exist" (Parfumo Soap), or the revival of his brand by Fantomas represents the greater embarrassment.
So had Gualtieri but about 6 years ago pompously ended the era Nasomatto and created Orto Parisi. (Nasomatto is Dead, Orto Parisi is born)
One can never be quite sure with Gualtieri, this was probably always part of himself and his fragrances, be it the concealment of the fragrance pyramid with simultaneous hint & morsel throwing in the documentary "the Nose - searching for Blamage" as well as the self-proclaimed demise of its own line. I am amused and provoked by this - and both are mostly good.
In my opinion, the oft-quoted description of the fragrance is; "This perfume is part of the Nasomatto project. The fragrance is a foolish and ill-fated creation, prompted by poor judgment and lack of care." pure marketing. However, this is not forbidden and is simply part of the process. Accusing yourself of poor judgment while having a highly regarded reputation among connoisseurs fits well with the crazy nose. An "unfortunate creation" I do not buy the good, especially not as the end of this line - and yes, despite the appearance of Fantomas I see here further the conclusion of the line Nasomatto.
As I said, this is not a mistake, at least not in the strict sense. However, if you go about the concept perfumery and think about how to represent a mishap olfactory, you come closer to the matter. Concept fragrances, for example Zoologist or Imaginary Authors never really smell authentic to what they are supposed to represent. They "only" create an authentic image of the same.
That Gualtieri wanted to create here an olfactory image of an embarrassment (of course, within the scope of the edible), I take him.
The often mentioned fragrance twin of Comme de Garcon is not known to me, but from the theme "Blamage" reminds me most likely to Tom Ford's Fucking Fabulous, which smells just as "bright", almond I suspect in Blamage just as, but somewhat hidden in synthetic and floral notes. For me it kind of goes in the same direction, very flamboyant and at least as self-conscious. Because this "embarrassment" smells unusual but not unpleasant. That to wear demands must and yet awakens intresse.
The fragrance starts fruity sweet, the top note consists of sandalwood which swims in apricot jam, this apricot remains central throughout the course. That is all I perceive at the beginning. Then a scorched floral almond emerges, biting rubber doused in vanilla milk, and liquid candle wax dripped with clean sweet musk. Associations of clean laundry alternate here; I often think of Zarkoperfume's "the Muse" here, and smoky imagery.
All of this is overshadowed by Gualtieri's secret ingredient, his interpretation of oud that often appears in his fragrances. It's sort of a "cyber-faecal," here with synthetic musk, which doesn't smell as bad as it might sound.
Blamage is by far the most bizarre scent I've had the pleasure of smelling. Fortunately, I like it quite well, even if I'm worried with this one anzuecken, which I have otherwise almost never. So necessarily extensively test before a bottle is purchased here.

I do not know how to classify Blamage. Basically, it may be a crazy Western interpretation of Orientalism, somehow floral, feminine but at the well-groomed shaved man just as appropriate. Here I see it as a good scent in the evening. But for the außergwöhnlichen.

.. Oh and the bottle is the most beautiful thing I've ever seen in perfumes

05/25/2019

MkCb
5 Reviews

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MkCb

Less helpful Review 11

Blamage - when the name becomes a program

I would like to think that in the one year since I became a scent addict, I have "tasted" a good amount of scents, especially across the bed. From the typical shower scent to the faecal oud scent there was a lot to see.
I would also like to say that I love Nasomatto. From the black Afghan, the hard Duro over the chocolaty Pardon up to the alcoholic Baraonda, I like them all. But I haven't experienced what I'm about to face with embarrassment. Cause "hit" hits it pretty good.

It's also very hard for me to describe this one, because I had to wash it off after three quarters of an hour, because I couldn't stand it anymore.
Sprayed on, it starts with a fruity note, I think I smell peach. In addition, there is an olfactory interpretation of the colour green, which in my opinion is not a natural note. On top of that (and this is actually the joke here) there is a medically-chemically-striking note, which makes this perfume in my eyes absolutely unwearable and unbelievably unpleasant. This stinging touch has some disinfectant-mäßgies, the worst sort of chemistry factory in the third world. Normally a danger sign for chemical substances would have to be attached here.
Since, as I described above, I had to wash them off after three quarters of an hour, I can unfortunately say nothing about the course. Nothing happened in the 45 minutes.

The performance is as criminal as the scent. A sprayer from one of these 2ml TZ (which really don't give off much liquid per sprayer) was enough to smell the scent in the whole staircase after I went to get the mail for several hours afterwards.

The bottle design is the only highlight here.

Nasomatto means, if you can believe the Internet, "crazy nose".
Crazy nose and embarrassment - a really good description, because in my opinion this is one of the most intolerable and especially unpleasant scents I have smelled so far.

04/20/2021

10
Pricing 10
Bottle 6
Sillage 6
Longevity 8
Scent

Supersegi
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Supersegi

Beauty without beast

Embarrassment.
Certainly the most beautiful bottle in my collection, absolutely gorgeous.

Gualtieri has made with his documentation to this certainly good advertising for the fragrance and for his work process. Shows quite clearly that perfume is just not only craft, but in the right hands just artistic creative process.

Blamage is for me just that.

Smells absolutely "different", than many Nasomattos, absolutely "peculiar", but not like Fantomas that you briefly wrinkle your nose, but then want more. I get almost no woody notes, but an art-fruit with musk and white flowers.

Nasomatto has two guidelines for me: perfumes that smell just like such and behave (Black Afgano, Hindu Grass, Baraonda, Duro) and just "art smells", which in and of themselves do not create the effect that Ottonormalverbraucher expects from a perfume, but rather "what smells here so" triggers. A nice smell that doesn't exist elsewhere. Fantomas belongs to it (Duro with water wings plastic, but a smell that I often even miss), Silver Musk (metal musk, immediately recognizable, but there is otherwise just not so as a smell) and Blamage - fruit-brightwood musk fresh own.

Cool smell, which will certainly accompany me on warm days. For all days below 20 degrees, the me has too little Wumms, but horny creation

06/17/2020

7
Sillage 8
Longevity 4
Scent

DarkWinterCS
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DarkWinterCS

Crazy embarrassed or washing machine ?

Nasomatto was longer one of the brands where I didn't see the point of spending so much money for such a small "Flakönchen". In retrospect a relatively strange decision, but ok, I improved in the course of time. After I tested Baraonda and it suddenly jumped into my Top3 (including buying a bottle in the souk), I wanted to test another one. My choice fell on the probably unusually smelling embarrassment, which according to the reviewers was felt sometimes chemically, sometimes as a wild mess. I once turned off the scent pyramid from the head and wanted to give myself over to this "mixture". That the word mixture would fit, I found out later
As with many other fragrances, I became aware of this one through our great video platform YouTube. Someone had held this little bottle with the white sleeve into the camera. So look for perfume and get a sample. Even though the statements and comments left me with a few question marks, it was clear that this was going to be my next Nasomatto test object.

Blamag is definitely not an embarrassment, it is more of an experimental laboratory for wacky creations. That's how it works. Because the scent is hard to describe and the associations go crazy. It's a rollercoaster ride with full acceleration, sudden braking and looping on the conveyor belt. When I alone want to express my associations, I talk about something strange with this fragrance. Imagine a laundry forgotten in the washing machine, which already smells slightly musty. This laundry is then taken care of with canned peaches and dipped into a bath of lukewarm milk. Voila - you have the smell of disgrace. Sounds wicked, maybe even a bit disgusting, but the scent is really able to create something out of it that is quite bearable. Maybe not in everyday life, but on cooler days for leisure time, it's certainly someone who stands out and gets interested looks. Especially the milky note increases a little bit in intensity over the wearing time.

Purely from the durability and Sillage, I was similarly enthusiastic as with the Baraonda. It doesn't quite reach that level, but the perceived time is easily over eight hours. The Sillage is also not from bad parents and becomes a bit stressful in the beginning, especially if you don't know the scent, it can quickly get too much for you here. Above all I don't want to imagine - now while writing this comment - what some people think when they sniff the scent of musty laundry on the collar of their jackets, shirts and shirts
I am definitely looking forward to my next Nasomatto experience. I don't know yet whether I want to try the probably most famous of the series, Black Afgano, or rather an Absinthe or Pardon. In any case, there's no one at the brand I'd like to miss, although I doubt that anyone will ever do as well as my Baraonda.

Which one do you think is worthwhile for the next test ?

12/12/2020

7
Pricing 10
Bottle 6
Sillage 6
Longevity 8.5
Scent

Soap
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Soap

Blah-blah. Blamage

I had prepared myself for this fragrance: Statements read, comments studied - some even several times. Of course, I also rented the Ali Gualtieri documentary (The Nose) on Vimeo. Found it great, very likeable guy, incredibly playful, like a kid - fascinating! And to frame it all, I sought out a dozen YouTube reviews - in multiple languages, of course.

And then I still had luckily a small Comme des Garçons 2 sample at hand, the alleged fragrance twin, as a reference, so to speak.

To Blamage many report almost the same, which is already amazing, and of course made me confident: peach, peach, peach. Cream. Milk and rancid milk. Chemistry, chemistry, chemistry. Petrochemicals. A rose turned inside out, the green on top, in chemistry! Great!

When the fragrance finally arrived at my door, I made further preparations to approach it safely: this will be the real "liquid hazardous waste", I thought, and carefully smelled the underside of the chunky, yet light, lid. I shouldn't apply it before eating, either it ruins my meal, or the meal ruins the scent. So better to eat first, then apply. And not too much at once - many have warned against this; so really only press very lightly on the sprayer. Now. Anon.

Go.

Yes. For me, this stuff works skin deep. No chemical spill to be wary of. No boom, hardly any sci-fi synthetics. Little peach. For me, it's really just a more delicate version of CdG 2.

Blamage was originally conceived as a mistake. And it seems to me that the desire to conceive a mistake is the real - thought - mistake in this fragrance. Conceived errors are controlled errors, and they simply do not exist. At least not in the sense that such a mistake should lead to something entirely new, according to the principle of "too many aldehydes" in Chanel No. 5.

Into the new you can only stumble. Intentionally and unconditionally mind you - that is crucial. Every intention is result control, every condition a limiting of the experiment. Conditions are evidence of intention. Analysis is paralysis, and interpretation is projection.

The mind works limitingly and is thereby always limited. Because it is limited, it can think only limitingly. With paradoxes the mind can do little. He is neither able to bring them about consciously, nor to classify his actual role in it. In the "normal case" it operates, following the logic, only linear. It prefers to turn in circles in order not to stumble. Even with synthesis of thesis and antithesis he does not really get far, because a paradox is not a figure of dialectics, but rather something like a quantum physical phenomenon, which is not measurable with compass and ruler.

The mind is limited - but its actual limits are not physical. It is rather a virtual "realm" of the linear infinity: a circle, from which only a quantum leap of the own perception leads out - or a true error, which one must recognize as such then however also, instead of it "into the grasp" to get and/or avoid. Then it is no longer an error, but a realization. And thus one comes presumably on the next floor of the understanding.

That one as an artist has already tried out what is possible within one's own realm of thought, from the principle, one recognizes by the fact that the new appears more and more often as the rearranged old. Seemingly new, but not unexpectedly new. Actually not new at all.

If one continues here as before, one turns always only in that invisible circle - into the infinity, if one wants so. Discipline, perseverance and persistence - the engines of the mechanical-linear world - hold this downward spiral in motion. One gets more and more into active doing, and further and further out of joy. In the same notch also the intention strikes to leave this mechanics, because intention is it, which gives this realm its linear infinity and holds the "I" imprisoned in it.

Intention directed outward, i.e. "every doing in order to", is always resistance, i.e. struggle with what is. The Daoist masters in ancient China also knew this. Therefore they raised the thought of "wu wei" (無為 = "not for the sake of" the Chinese counterpart to the Japanese 無心 "mu shin" = here translated analogously as "without heart(blood)") - of the unintentional doing - to the maxim of life. Because if one leaves out the outwardly directed intention - thus each "in order to" -, then does not develop, as feared by many, aim or uselessness, but, a naturalness and self-evidence conclusive in itself: a childlike impartiality, to which any mental blockades are strange. Therefore, the path of the wise always led back to the childishness, that natural state, which was so conscientiously as painfully aberrated in the Confucian-influenced society.

To play is therefore the only thing, which provides remedy. Because playing knows no intention, is without control and without a goal. Here the activity is in itself its own sense: it is sufficient for itself. If one gives oneself to it, the fog of the believed borders clears. Sometime.

Well, then I must say, the Ali plays also, what the stuff holds! The bright eyes are not posed, he is fully enthusiastic! I believe him that; Calculation I can recognize only with difficulty. But it's strange that CdG 2, of all things, comes out of his game. Fifteen years after the release of CdG 2, Nasomatto reinvents CdG 2 once again, as an embarrassment, but not new. But in the game. Wow I mean, there's this example that if you had all the monkeys in the world pounding away in typewriter keys for all eternity, that at some point a literary masterpiece or at least a great dictionary would inevitably come out of it, so they say. So from a purely theoretical-statistical-calculative point of view, right? Seen in this way, the probability of blindly reconstructing CdG 2 (at three times the price) in just under two years, and without any intention, probably approaches zero - I don't know. So calculation after all? Or an ingenious mistake?

The packaging says this product is the result of (poor?) care and poor decisions. But these decisions can not have been so bad. At all the conception by conscious "bad" decisions to leave the circle of the mind is only another illusion. For conscious decisions testify to judgments, and judgments counteract the game because they testify to intentions. A cycle and a trap.

Ah, yes.

Blamage is solidly built, that's for sure - I'd also like the scent to be more aggressive and long-lasting. I hoped there quite a lot of - hence all the bla-bla. Blamage is the fragrance certainly not, a mistake certainly not.

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