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Room 237 Fzotic 2015

6.1 / 10 24 Ratings

A perfume by Fzotic for women and men, released in 2015. The scent is floral-synthetic. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Floral

Synthetic

Sweet

Green

Fresh

Fragrance Notes

Angelica

Costus root Elfwort

Elfwort

Opoponax

Frankincense

Tarragon

Vinyl

Perfumer

Bruno Fazzolari

Ratings

Scent

6.124 Ratings

Longevity

6.314 Ratings

Sillage

6.012 Ratings

Bottle

6.817 Ratings

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6 in-depth fragrance descriptions

02/20/2016

2Scent 5Longevity

Silverfire
134 Reviews

Silverfire

Helpful Review 3

Neither Haunting Nor Chilling, but Occasionally Repulsive

Room 237 opens with the stale, dried rose of Oscar de la Renta pour Lui, which is quickly blended with a baby oil note in lecherous way. It is not sexy. It is moldy, faintly askew, and becomes suffocating as time goes on. The rose blooms, and supported by the baby oil, becomes expansive, dizzying, and nauseating, and by turns, sweaty and gamey. This passes (mercifully) and by a few hours in the scent has become a sweet, rose-flavored scent, harmless, and innocent. This is my favorite part of the journey, mostly because the first two stages were adventures in repulsion. The last leg is femme-leaning but for some reason, I don't mind it. Projection is down to a few inches at this point. By eight hours, it has become a generic soapy-rose scent, not unlike hotel bathroom soap. Final verdict: neither haunting nor chilling, just a bit of overdone rose that was occasionally noxious.

05/17/2015

jtd
484 Reviews

jtd

5

Room 237

Searing woods, rough ouds, tarry incenses. The overtly tough perfumes get most of the attention in the discussion of ‘challenging’ perfumes. Grim, dense, basenote-heavy perfumes are assumed to be threatening. Within the perfume fraternity they land somewhere between a hazing ritual and a hot-pepper eating contest. They have an aura of intimidation and tests of manhood, but conceptually they are as menacing as someone jumping out at you and yelling, “BOO!"

Room 237's challenge is less overt. It's not a dare, it's a threat.

The perfume's name is a reference to a specific scene and set from Stanley Kubrick's The Shining. The scene is horrifying for the way it creates suspense, for the way evil is revealed. It doesn't confront you. It invites you, it lures you. It's banal and common and you only become aware of it because you are becoming part of it. Whether you knew it or not, sin surrounds you and always has. Having peeled back the curtain and seeing the evil, there's no turning back.

It's a great spin on the tree of knowledge myth. Temptation, the internalization of evil, the fall from grace. So how can a perfume be 'about' these concepts? Room 237 works with discord smartly and delicately. The scent does evoke bathroom rituals. It suggests an enclosed space, moist air, human skin. It even borrows the form of the musky eau de cologne that often completes the bathing ritual. Perfumes have used materials like musks and costus to depict cleanliness against a backdrop of human animalism (eg. Eau d’Hermès, YSL Kouros, Miller Harris l’Air de Rien.)

Room 237 tweaks the juxtaposition, suggesting not a steamy bath, but the lingering moments after, where condensation on cold porcelain and plastic refute the humanity of the scenario. Cleansing and grooming should leave one at the height of freshness, so why is the setting so disturbing? Why does warm skin shiver? Is it a chill or the touch of something wicked? The incongruities, the inappropriateness might be at the far corner of your attention, just past the periphery, but you can sense them and they're not going away.

Sinister and just a bit seductive.

from scenthurdle.com

02/15/2025

7Scent

LoWo
13 Reviews

LoWo

2

A less endearing Amicus Cumulus

There's a faraway grandpa/barber note that's clean but not refreshing, like Barbasol shaving cream, Dial soap, and Canoe aftershave. It's not terrible but it feels a little out of place with the herbal notes of Angelica and tarragon.

When I was little, my parents were still friends with their old landlord, who was easily in her 80s when I was 4 or 5 - this reminds me of going to her house and seeing the dish of ribbon candy on her coffee table, asking for a piece (because yay, candy!) and realizing that it was all licorice and anise flavored - still candy and sweet but not really what I'd hoped for, and nowhere to spit it out.

It's full of memories of a different generation - easy to misunderstand because it's not totally relatable, but comforting in an old itchy afghan on your grandma's couch sort of way.

For me it needs a soft skin scent to balance it out - I added a little DedCool milk and it softened the astringency a bit.

07/26/2024

DressUpWitch
50 Reviews

DressUpWitch

2

Strange indeed.

Weird and green describes more than a few scents I've enjoyed, but this is sadly not one of them. I can respect it as a piece of art because it does evoke the creepy, sterile bathroom in The Shining, and the notes are accurate to what I smell--I even get the vinyl shower curtain. I also get nail polish. It's not at all wearable.

05/09/2025

7Scent 4Longevity 4Sillage

LastWonder
491 Reviews

LastWonder

1

Grandma's House

This fragrance is inspired by the hotel bathroom in Room 237 in Kubrick's movie The Shining. I get something a little less sinister. Its being at grandma's house and there is that musky old people smell in the room as well as grandma's floral scented powder. Her furniture is covered in plastic and crinkles when I sit on it. I chew bubble gum obnoxiously and there is warm green scent that drifts in from the garden outside. This does have a vinyl scent about it but not in a super synthetic way, more like vinyl records. There is something sweet, powdery, and bubblegum-like that is pervasive throughout the fragrance. Its an easy to wear fragrance but I do wish it has leaned a little more into the "weird" or experimental aspects.

This fragrance has some aromatic qualities but mainly its a skin scent. It also lasted about 4 hours on my skin. There are two sizes available starting at 9ml for $54 and a 30ml for $135.

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