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Nushka
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In space no-one can smell you
I am late to the game but finally discovering this modern classic thanks to a kind kindred perfumista soul who provided me with a decant.
Famously landing in a blind-spot for some (just like Baccarat Rouge 540 by MFK), I was very curious to find out whether I will be able to smell it at all or not! The reviews online are so different that it's hard to imagine or picture*what* this would turn out like on skin.
This doesn't smell like anything else - in perfumery, yet it does smell exactly like a plastic baby doll I got for Christmas once, a looo-ho-ho-ho-ong time ago. I must have been 4 or 5, but this unique aroma of new plastic always stayed with me for some reason. I loved smelling this doll's painted hair - a bit chemical, a bit fruity, indecipherable really. An ersatz of something that has no equal in Nature. A copy that's bigger than life (see "Annihilation" the movie).
This is probably why it's hard for me to pinpoint any distinct notes - I don't recognize anything, so instead of olfactory analogies it evokes images: this is what that girl in Blade Runner must have smelled like (which Blade Runner? Both!). This is what Gally/Alita from Gunnm/Battle Angel Alita smells like. This is what I imagine a fresh copy of the Japanese streetstyle magazine Fruits must have smelled like - I'll never know...
This scent is a bouquet of emotions. I don't know how I feel about it! I'm annoyed my brain can't classify it next to an image of a fruit or a flower like it does with other perfumes! I'm fascinated by the fact it's both sweet and salty! I'm appalled by how old I am when it triggers flashbacks from my childhood and my adolescence! I'm attracted by its uniqueness and elusiveness !
I think it's a new generation of scents that will replace the "freshies" of yesteryear. Instead of the scent of a freshly washed shirt or a freshly ironed one, this is the scent of a garment that is so new it's not just that it hasn't been worn, it hasn't even been bought yet!
A must-have for cosplayers of robot-like alien cyberpunk characters and/or people with always impeccable hair and styled outfits. I am neither but I don't always follow my own rules and non-sense suits this ambivalent scent . I just feel like I need to buy a mint or powder blue wig to go with it (and just like the wig, wear it only occasionally and for a limited time).