STINKING WEIRDOS

We are going to talk about some terrifying ,stinking monsters of the contemporary niche perfumery and we will raise the question why they are in the market. Some got altered by the brand because noone wants their old fashioned niche amber to smell like birdshit, hunan sweat and stale urine from a public men's lavatory.Some buyers and reviewers insist that these stinking weirdos are high ,artistic perfumery. The question for them is do they actually wear these creations to go out in public, or they only smell them secretly and privately at home? Or their study room?

Etat d'orange libre SECRETIONS MAGNIFIQUES

The top notes are aldehydes, marine note, salt note. The middle notes are adrenaline accord, milk accord, blood accord And the base notes are sandalwood, opoponax, iris root. They say it smells really of heavy sweat, urine and gangraine. Something went wrong with the blood accord and the milk accord and the result was rotten human flesh! Was this on purpose? Probably yes. Then the marine notes with the strong balsamic opoponax note and the aldehydes ended up stinking of urine and uncleanliness and heavy sweat. Why on earth should we stink of these horrid secretions of the human body for more than half an hour to get to a powdery skin scent of sandal wood and iris? Did the perfumer want us to imagine hell in purgatory before St. Paul opens the gate to Heaven? Did the perfumer want to transfer us to the unusual sadomazochistic pleasures of marquis De Sade and after the terrors of De Sade's private ambient the perfumer reminds us that yet marquis De Sade was a very noble aristocrat despite his unorthodox privacies? We will not find out.

Orto Parisi MEGAMARE

Alessandro Gualtieri from Nassomatto and Orto Parisi likes to cause controversy ,shock, turmoil with his creations. Let's begin with the name and we will move to the perfume. I do not know exactly what is meant by MegaMare but i can imagine it is the very deep open sea. The ocean. The Ancient Greeks had a word for the ocean, the very deep  therefore black blue or dark gray open sea and we come to witness this word for the first time in Homer's Odysseia which is the epic huge  poem of the adventures of Ulysses. That word is 'pontos'. But noone would understand the perfumer here so he made up the word MegaMare. We will explain soon why the commentators who tried the perfume said horrid things about it. But we must present it and analyse it first .This is considered a masterpiece of contemporary niche perfumery , a minimal perfumery which by now uses synthetic essences to make a difference from the classic let us say perfumery. So back to the fragrance itself. The perfume listed from the site of Basenotes carries the notes of lemon zest, bergamot, sea weed,calone and hedione. I must say I do not appreciate the note of calone at all, it is very distinctive plastic sea breese. For hedione I have no clue what it smells like. Now the sea weed note is a rather expensive natural oil produced from sea weed, little known as ocean algae. Algae are plants of the sea. It is expensive due to its process and qualities. It is a very green smelling oil, quite piney  and ozonic and above all it is a fixative. Which means that it brings the notes of the perfume stick together and blend harmoniously say "more rounded" as they call it in perfumery. The base of the pyramid notes is tons of ambroxide , musk and cedar.  The complaints about it are not about the eternal longevity but some cosumers mentioned the weird smell of the nets of fishermen as these are drying in the sun and even worse the combo of sea weed note and musk and too much ambroxan brings up a bad smell of fish in decay. So are you brave enough to come face to face with rhe monster the ocean hides? It is lurking in the abyss of MegaMare.

Last but not least we should mention Dodo by Zoologist.

The initial launch of the fruity floral fougere went weird possibly because of too much animalic original ambergris. We say original to indicate real ambergris which is so rare it is hugely expensive. Of course there is synthetic ambergris which costs much less. Anyway the brand withdrew this initial launch and produced a different version . The original and initial launch of Dodo received very hard comments about stale urine smell and birdshit smell. 

Anyway I believe the Dodo, which was a large bird that used to live in Mauritius island became extinct upon the arrival of Portuguese on the island who slaughtered all the Dodos should be more carefully used as a Natural History memory by the brand!