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Gilded Lotus 2005

3.0 / 10 67 Ratings
A perfume by Nicole Miller for women and men, released in 2005. The scent is synthetic-smoky. Projection and longevity are above-average. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Synthetic
Smoky
Animal
Spicy
Sweet

Perfumer

Ratings
Scent
3.067 Ratings
Longevity
8.752 Ratings
Sillage
8.454 Ratings
Bottle
6.243 Ratings
Value for money
5.925 Ratings
Submitted by Ronin, last update on 08/04/2025.

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Ngengerous

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Ngengerous
Ngengerous
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Truly one-of-a-kind.
I'm genuinely struggling for words to describe how this makes me feel.

Let me make this clear - you should never wear this fragrance outside of your own home. This stuff is loud, obnoxious and will make those within 5 metres of you screw up their faces in disgust at the bizarre scent they're being subjected to.

This smells like a group of scientists worked on an unholy experiment - creating the world's first sentient bionic orange, implanted with all manner of circuitboards and metallic parts. However, the experiment went horribly wrong, and the scientists had to dispose of the disfigured and decaying orange as quickly as possible. They doused it in the nearest flammable liquid they could find - olive oil - and set it ablaze. The smell of burning sweet rotted citrus flesh combined with scorched solder and plastic is the only way I can describe this scent.

This smells like an impending sense of doom.

If you get the chance to sample, I would absolutely recommend it - but for the love of God, do NOT spray this on your skin.
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Numcks4frags

21 Reviews
Numcks4frags
Numcks4frags
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Good Covid frag
Kickstarter campaign frag. This has the same moon dust note as their Eau de Luna, which is great, but added to that is a reeking mercaptan/bilge note, some body odor undertones, and a burning plastic insulation note that must simulate the ripe conditions of over clocked electronics, under washed astronauts, and the on-board septic system near the end of the mission. The lovely moon dust of Eau de Luna is ephemeral, the stinky spacecraft is tenacious and a bit nauseating. Similar effect as the bilge note in Secretions Magnifiques, but cranked up to volume 11. Wearable if your intent is social distancing.
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DevilJuice

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DevilJuice
DevilJuice
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One of the all time worst
Smells like porta potty, cum, and rotting food all at once. This smells so bad and intense it's hard to describe

Ive smelled hundreds maybe thousands of fragrances and this is definitely one of the worst. But the point of this scent wasn't to smell good. Its to mimic space and Im glad I got to cross this off the bucket list. Definitely worth sampling to see whats up or as a gift to someone you hate
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Schoeibksr

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Schoeibksr
Very helpful Review 42  
Scented Shaytan / Mustiest Count Dracula
Shaytan comes from Arabic & means devil. Those who are unfamiliar with the scent might wonder why one would associate a fragrance with such negative connotations. However, most who know the scent would probably agree with me that this is a strong understatement. One should rather ask why anyone would even create such a scent. But more on that at the end.

Negative energy often leads one to make great mistakes. The malevolent aura, surrounded by many myths & legends, that this scent exuded for me tempted my curious & impatient self to generously spray it on the back of my hand twice right after receiving it on the train. Connoisseurs of the scent are probably now reading with their mouths agape, wide eyes, or perhaps even both. If only I hadn’t bitten into the apple…

Let’s put it this way, it was not exactly the “number one compliment getter” everyone was waiting for. It was the scent incarnate of the devil. My seat in the carriage was flooded within seconds with “Eau de Space” like a powerful tsunami. So, one really can’t complain about a lack of performance here. It’s a room-filler with eternal life. Almost like a vampire! But there’s a bit more behind the comparison…

Now, what do vampires like?
Blood.
What is blood partly made of?
Iron.
There’s a somewhat bitter-metallic note that is consistently present in this scent.
This is not a scent for outer space; this is an elixir for vampires!

This vampire lives & may last a very long time, good for him! However, he has unfortunately forgotten to shower after all these years, let alone flush the damn toilet. Even worse, after all these years, he hasn’t once pulled aside the curtain out of fear of light to open the window & air out the room. This stuffy air, with its cloying stench, digs deep into memory like a surreal nightmare. This is the mustiest Count Dracula of all time!

Like a football anthem:
Urine, urine, we smell like urine!

How does it smell, Mr. Gattuso?
Sometimes maybe urine, sometimes maybe shit!

A harsh, medicinal-sweet facet overlays it. A bit aldehydic & fizzy in there.

Summed up, it’s like a rotten medicine bottle that someone urinated in years ago. The bottle is made of slightly burnt plastic and lies on damp, moldy earth.

If one has learned anything here, it’s the fact that you cannot simply recreate the smell of outer space in a perfume. This is a concept fragrance that couldn’t even remotely fulfill the concept. I can hardly imagine that anyone would let their urine float around in outer space. One should not be easily blinded by this failed experiment from marketing, assuming that it was truly their intention, as they bizarrely suggest on their website.

It smells like the worst April Fool’s joke & the best Halloween scent.
A scent to burst the dream of a flight into outer space. After this scent, no one wants to become an astronaut anymore.
If this is what outer space smells like, then Kei Portens Oud 31 uses a lot of real oud:

So never in a lifetime!

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…And here is an orchestra that quite justly represents the grotesque malice of this scent and could actually serve well as a background soundtrack here:

https://youtu.be/cKQL-QfYE9I?si=wOXAlCc6TPjIf5us

I wish you all a Merry Christmas!
Your Grinch. ;)

(With thanks to Cfr)
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Chizza

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Top Review 31  
Sci-Fi Convention
Wolle and his crew were generally regarded as a kind of local heroes, role models, philanthropists in Herne. Whether it was drinking beer for the rainforest, partying for the Rhein-Herne Canal, or acting as professional youth protectors/beer destroyers at the Cranger Kirmes: Wolle and his motorcycle crew were positively present. In the sense of Herne. Therefore, a local dealer and producer of Star Wars fragrances thought it would be fitting to gift Wolle's Eleven a fragrance due to his growing connections with NASA, which they should wear at a convention specially developed for this purpose. The connection to NASA? Too complex at this point.

This fragrance was called Eau de Space, the scent of outer space. Wolle and his crew dressed up as planned. Wolle as Chewbeerca, Totty as R2Bier2, Hotte as C3BierO, and Ilse, Wolle's wife, more in Wolle's imagination as Ilsabber the Hud. The costumes were no coincidence. Wolle had once been locked in the monkey enclosure at the Dortmund Zoo for three nights before it was noticed that one monkey wasn't eating, was overly fondling visitors, and stealing beer bottles. Totty got his costume due to his eloquence while drunk, and Hotte? He had wrapped his Manta in the same glittering color as the original robot was known for.

So off they went to the convention with the Millennium Falcon, here a beer cart. Before that, they had to perfume themselves with Eau de Space as per the contract.
“Phew, Wolle! Did you maybe have too many eggs in the morning?”
“Nope, just had four jugs of beer, why?”
“Oh, friends, the scent, this is going to be an experience...”

“Yes, now I smell it too. But I have to think more of a chemical toilet where the chemicals aren't enough.”
“So like with Wolle.”
Everyone looked puzzled until Hotte said: “...yes, exactly...like with you, Wolle.”
“Now the note is fading a bit, still slightly sulfurous.”
“I also smell charred meat. This is definitely a Sci-Fi convention and not a cannibal convention?”
“Yes, Totty, let’s just dive into it.”

Once inside, the largest booth was reserved for Wolle's Eleven, and later there would be a kind of fair boxes - only with beer instead of boxes. Everyone could challenge Wolle, Hotte, Udo, and the like. The latter was dressed as a Mandalorian, by the way. Not because he had any connection to it, but the organizers wanted to avoid Udo holding his bloated face in front of the camera.
The guys parted the crowd like Moses parted the sea. This time, however, it wasn't Wolle's hydrophobia but Eau de Space. The organizers noticed this and immediately addressed Wolle at the booth: “Wolle, you could have at least done a cat wash! You smell like someone cut off your leg with hot metal and the wound now stinks to high heaven! You didn't do that, did you?”
“That's your Eau de Space, friends. It smells warm-sulfurous and chemical. So if it smells like this in space, then I'd rather stay here in Herne. Or was there a problem with the sanitary facilities in the shuttle when they tried to capture the scent? It can happen.”

“There’s no progression either. We'll market it as a theme scent. It also smells a bit like burnt rubber, doesn’t it? Or like tires left out in hot weather for a few days. It will definitely be bought. Udo, what are you doing-? Keep the helmet on, I just had breakfast!”
The rest of the day, they got drunk for the fans and the new glasses bear exhibit at the zoo and signed autographs, Wolle even accidentally signing blank checks. “So what should I write? A kiss on the nuts, for my very best friend C. R. Ava-Che?” “Yes, please. It's for a friend....”
Then eventually it was closing time and the guys were glad to have made it through everything. “A terrible scent! One has to accept it as a concept. But now we have it behind us!”
Wolle cleared his throat: “....friends, there’s also Eau de Luna and I’ve committed us to both fragrances.....”
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It’s sterile and inhuman for sure. Strong ammonia and gas. It becomes more nauseating as it dries down. A thrilling concept though!
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Space
Firestone sparks
Cable sheathing
Smoldering construction foam
Lovell's shaving cream
Rolls of tape
Dry toilets
Adrenaline
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Out of this world.
Brave ones, please read my experience below.
Don't let it land on Earth! *
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An incontinent alien is peeing in the spaceship, the invasion fails due to burnt seals and cables. To celebrate, there’s...
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Smells like lukewarm sausage skin on egg salad. Then bleach vomits spaceship. What the hell is this? I'm feeling queasy :-Yuck!
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In the void, it's dark
Smoke gray and gloomy
Chemical molecules
Dance singing
Around giggling bats
Whose droppings in the air
Cause gasping breaths
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Name is omen: With this scent, you have plenty of space on the bus, train, and in the office. Disinfectant? Probably works well against coronaviruses.
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Eau de Space
Oh my God
Lightly sweet caramelized rubber hammer
meets vice
Truly exciting
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71000 years of sleep
Ship unstable cold
Metal balls float
in the atmosphere
Crack in the ventilation system
sweet green cream
in aluminum pack
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It's not that bad for me, some Oud fragrances have smelled much worse. Smoky synthetic concept scent.
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