Nastiest fragrance ever

What do you think is the worst fragrance ever?

Sécrétions Magnifiques pops up a lot when you search this. Has anyone tried it? Is it really that bad? I have it on my wish list because somehow it makes me curious!

I remember as a kid I got this perfume for my birthday that I really loathed. I see it as a goal in life to find it one day because I can’t remember which one it was 😆 I smelled it on someone a couple of years back but I wasn’t as determined back then to ask what it was.. maybe this forum will help me out 🙃 All I remember is that it was a rectangular black bottle with a simple text on it.

Ah well.. I digress.. let’s hear your absolute stinkers!

Scatamalis

It's not really nasty. It works very well for layering with Juste Filthy to make it more dirty. For me, it would be difficult to wear by itself although the Dame Perfumery website says it can be worn solo. Putting a single tiny dab on a wrist is not what I would call wearing it though. It has a definite scat note but that's not all; there are other notes at work. It doesn't fill a room with a dirty diaper scent or outhouse smell. Some people exaggerate.

I haven't tried it yet (on my list) but I suspect Sexy Skunk and Super Sexy Skunk (not in the database) might be the same. They both contain skunk tincture.

Dodo (2020) is supposed to be a pretty good mimic of BO and unwearable. Always up for a challenge, I have a sample but haven't tried it yet.

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To give you context, I normally love bizarre, dubious, to skanky / "unwearable" scents.

But Sécrétions Magnifiques? It literally made me queasy. We're talking physically nauseating. I remember some sort of milkish metallic brine-y ozonic coconut-ish mixture of bile from Hell. It was so horrible that I sealed my sample in a plastic bag, and then wrapped that bag over because please no atom of this stuff reaching my nostrils ever again.

Apparently some people love it and repeat-purchase, though! I can't quite wrap my mind around the idea, but each their own - as long as they stay outside my smell-perception radius

ETA that this sample was a 2010-2012ish formula and the current version may be very different, for all I know.

Also, I had a vague memory of this, just double-checked, and indeed: Perfumes: The Guide gives it 5/5* (And why not, I mean, if you look at it as a Lovecraftian olfactory experiment, it's indeed a masterpiece). But in the review, Luca talks about - quote - "an elegant fresh floral".
....quite. Quite.

Lol @SixAmbregris your description of the scent scares me 🫣 

I find it funny because this brand has several highly rated scents. Could it just be a marketing trick to release one of the most horrific smells, to get the name out? Maybe not as you say, some people buy it on repeat.. 

I tried Sécrétions Magnifiques in a shop a while ago. The salesperson asked to spray it outside the shop. And ... it made sense. The opening is rather innocent, but in less than a minute, it became one of the worst thing I have ever smelt.

I also dislike Terre d'Hermès Eau de Toilette, it smells like a man in summer in a nylon shirt who oversprayed to try to hide his body odor.

Maybe a mispelling for "flesh funeral" ?

...you do know that you make the whole lot sound irresistible, right?

Oh but, mind you, I find it smells atrocious, for my personal taste, but I don't think it's a badly composed perfume, actually!

At the start, ELO was totally doing the "schoolboy shouting 'BUTT!' in the street and running away giggling" thing. The cartoonish labels (and I miss Sécrétions Magnifiques's baby-pink peen spouting, Moby-Dick like, a geyser of baby-blue drops), the names (Don't Get Me Wrong Baby did have its "I don't swallow" at first), the funny "OK what could be the most unexpected pair of notes, like, SO jarring? I know! Incense+Bubblegum! Jasmine+Cigarettes!" compositions...

To me, it all felt like deliberate juvenile humor (and, importantly, not cynically so), it looked like everyone was having fun back there and the retail price of the perfumes was really cheap (we're talking 55 euros/50ml), while actually quite cleverly composed, in a big-machette-strokes and "we ❤️ synthetics" style.

I wasn't as taken by Putain des Palaces from the launch line as many people, but it was all the rage with seasoned perfumistas. The first one I really liked was Charogne (so, "Carrion", which, we were amicably told, referred to an "older woman", "mature flesh" "waiting to be taken". #poetry) - a beautiful suave floral that managed to encapsulate the very moment when your white flowers are on their last leg and get fleshy sweet with a hint of gazoline, before falling dead petals scattered.

Oh and I forgot Clean Suede (er, Tom of Finland, it was called, thank you, and there was a drawing by Tom' on the box. "Clean Suede", what the flying ?) - at any rate, it had solid vibes of Bvlgari Black and is there a better compliment? Great stuff.

My "OMG this is WONDERFUL" in the line was a few years later, Like This made with Tilda Swinton (not an umpteenth "celebrity frag", she was there all the way) - nothing juvenile anymore, it had a Rumi quote and smelled of ginger and immortelle and peat and the cosy warmth of home, if your home was haunted. Gorgeous. (it deservedly won the Specialists' prize at the Fifi awards that year)

It looks like since then, they did a total 180°, like zero relation to that funky 2000s brand, eh? The schoolboy's got his MA in Literature since and he now gives names in latin, from poetry or ballet or Dune to his chypres (!!!) in tainted glass bottles with gold embossing. And he wants to make money, too :p

I kind of stopped keeping up with them ages ago, but some of the more "recent" (to me) stuff looks really interesting!

(...why do I always do this)

Well, I will say since I did try Juste Filthy layered over Scatamalis it is an awesome combination.  Can't speak for the others - yet!

Here's one that almost made me puke. It was for sale at Marshall's (discount store in the US). I sprayed it on my hand and had to immediately rush to the bathroom to wash it off. Unfortunately, it still stuck around after multiple hand washings. Not in the database here. Portola Intense Leather.

I hope not to offend anyone, but I can't be near anyone wearing "Maroussia | Slava Zaïtsev" 😝.

For me, animal hair tinctures seem pretty nasty and disgusting. I don't understand what they add to the perfume composition. Unnecessary realism! Do they have a specific smell? Can't you achieve the same result with synthetic materials? What kind of bestiality is this?? 😃

Black Sheep features "a tincture of raw Icelandic black fleece (humanely sheared from the lovely Penelope)" - quote

"Häxan | Parfum Prissana" features a goat hair tincture.

The perfumer from the house TSVGA Pillow Lips adds his own chest hair to the perfumes. Yuck! Biohazard alert!! Who buys that stuff? Also, the perfumer likes to ask his fans for cash on Instagram. I think he needs an Only Fans account. Not a perfume shop. I heard they are going out of business... so... grab your last bottles if you're into that sort of thing. It's a no judgment zone!

Haxan is being discontinued, too (according to the LuckyScent email).

I don’t understand the animalistic tinctures either @DRKSHDW , but isn’t Musk also one of them? I’m not sure what Musk smells like and if I like it.

The "Maroussia | Slava Zaïtsev" that @Ringtale speaks of has something from the Civet cat.. sounds so nasty 😷

Yes, Musk comes from the glands of a male deer and sure can give a scent something 'dirty'. But synthetic Musk, on the other hand, can make a scent smell very clean..it's all not that easy. Civet is in many scents and is does not always will make a scent smell 'dirty'. It all depends on the total composition I guess .

Natural deer musk, civet, ambergris... I don't approve of, but I understand why certain brands still use these natural raw materials. Cruel tradition, but perfumers have been using those materials for centuries. Civet, ambergris, musk are very pungent, highly concentrated. A little bit goes a long way.  

Animal hair, on the other hand...🙄 It probably doesn't even have the distinct concentrated smell. I think indie brands use it as a 'wow factor'... to appeal to a certain type of customers. When I was little my grandma had a small farmhouse, we had a pet goat. I don't think goat hair has a strong scent... at all (if it's a clean goat, of course). 

@Ringtale

"Maroussia | Slava Zaïtsev" is the stuff of nightmares. Disturbing/difficult scent. I like to challenge myself, so I wear it sometimes. It's an experience, for sure. I wear it when I'm home alone.

Kouros Eau de Toilette contains civet while Antaeus Eau de Toilette contains castoreum. Kouros and Antaeus are two of the best masculine fragrances ever (IMO of course). The ingredients are artificial these days. It's an acquired taste!

"Maroussia | Slava Zaïtsev" and its weird ad (at least in France). I have forgotten its smell, all I can remember is that I disliked it, and I am not sure I want to remember why.

Well, luckily IFRA is putting an end to most of that cruelty. Most notes, I think, are now made in the lab instead of depriving those from animals (sorry if my English is not that good). Many people complain about how good 'original' perfumes were before IFRA was involved and how they now 'are shadow of what they once were', but I don't mind, it's better for the environment (and for ourselves by the way when it comes to allergies and things like that).

@DRKSHDW Well home alone won't bother anyone I don't think I wear scents 'just at home'. Come to think of it, maybe Blue Grass (1989) I read such polorizing reviews on that one, which is why I feel a little self conscious when wearing that in public But I love the scent .

@EvitaVilla In holland people still wear it sometimes so I'm confronted with the scent now and then without the effort of 'remembering' it...it's awful!

Oh another one I can't come to terms with is Amarige Eau de Toilette I know a lot of people love it (so no offends meant), but I just can't stand it...Tried it multiple times, but NO . I love many Givenchy perfumes, but Amarige I don't like.

I just smelled Kouros Eau de Toilette and indeed it wasn’t bad at all!!

When it comes to "Maroussia | Slava Zaïtsev"... The civet in this composition is not aggressive; it's mild, like a clean fur coat. Slightly smoky. The real issue is florals + aldehydes. The aldehydes are akin to a rotting moldy bar of old-fashioned soap. The florals are dry and dusty. Wearing it feels like being wrapped in an old dusty rug that belonged to a smoker...

Yes, it smells like that And I usually LOVE aldehydes, they're in many of my perfumes, like with civet, it al depends on the blend.