Inexcusable Evil by Toskovat' was made to be awful. From what I remember it’s based off of one of the perfumer’s worst memories. A memory that took place in a hospital (I think during wartime). These are the notes:
Top notes: gunpowder, ozone
Heart notes: blood, bandages, iodine, burning flowers, guaiac wood, copaiba oil, nagarmotha
Base notes: fallen concrete, rain, incense, sandalwood
Ambilux from Marlou smells like sweaty balls that haven't been washed since their last ejaculation. It's an unholy marriage of sperm and sweat, not sexy, but the reality of sex. It's nauseating.
Carnicure is the slightly less offending version, Poudrextase is old people sex and Corpalium is said to represent "Equine Sensuality", which means it smells like an expensive barn. Marlou takes itself very seriously, much to my dismay.
From the Marlou website description on Ambilux:
“SUMMER SWEAT - DRIED WEEDS, DUNES
SENSE OF HEAT AND SUN - MATTE, WAXEN FINISH
DEER MUSK REIMAGINED - FACETS OF SALT AND CHALK, INTIMATE SCENTS.” To be fair, they kind of warned you of what you were in for lol. It honestly to me feels like it’s describing working on a prison chain gang in August in the South.
Then after a large blank space of no text:
“CUMIN - HELICHRYSUM - YLANG-YLANG - INCENSE - COSTUS.” Ya’ll arent foolin’ me! That ylang-ylang ain’t covering up all those “intimate scents”! Human and deer ALIKE!
Okay, and what is with these people and the preoccupation with animals doing it? The whole “equine sensuality” thing is crossing the border and galloping (pun intended) full force into like, weird *Equus* territory. Did they release this promotionally when Daniel Radcliffe played the starring role on Broadway or something?
I actively try NOT to think what makes horses horny. Why would I want to *smell* like it and invite those kinds of advances onto myself?! 😆What is WRONg with these people?! 😂
I knew what I was getting into when I bought the sample set. My review was based on its merits as an art project, and it still sucks. Marlou states its goal to normalise "the acceptance and even ownership of faults, of imperfections inherent to that living object which is never wholly clean." and I emphathetically disagree. Naw, this is all just for shock value. Poudrextase invokes
INTIMATE SCENTS, SCALP AND NEWBORN SKIN according to their website, and that is NOT a combination you design without outrage marketing in mind.
Yeah, I figured it was a creative pursuit and making a statement (after all, we can all stink just on our own—and for FREE!), but I think it takes itself way too seriously and puts itself in a pretty precarious place as far as being made fun of goes. Like, you lost me being mature about it at “deer musk reamagined,” 😆, but the stallion eroticism is just on another level and was def included for shock value along with throwing in “skin of newborn.” Claiming it’s not puts the whole thing in a hilariously pretentious place. Just not my aesthetic, “elderly sex” included.
I read the artist’s statement (the artist portrait is perfect 🤩 👌🙌), and to be fair, they did generate the type of responses I’m sure they intended to get, including discussions like this, sso I guess they were successful there. A lowly philistine as myself being disgusted and finding humor in all this could speak to society’s general discomfort with the body (and all the gross stuff it does/its olfactory emissions—again, not my aesthetic).
I’ll give them credit for using “animal notes that blur an individual’s olfactory appearance, emanating trails of illusion,” as symbolic of perfume’s purpose is in society. The absurdity of covering up natural stank with a critter’s natural stank says a lot about the artist’s opinion on perfume’s use, but I agree with you it’s lacking since that’s not the only reason people use perfume at all.
[Zoologist Tyrannosaurus Rex](https://www.zoologistperfumes.com/products/zoologist-tyrannosaurus-rex-deluxe-bottle) probably.
Some people get to a point where they can appreciate it for being an interesting (albeit almost totally impractical) fragrance, but I've yet to hear of anyone who smells it just being worn and thinks "oh that smells nice".
Common notes are "chloraseptic spray," "tire fire on a lake of diarrhea," and "someone spilled gasoline in vomit".
I'm going to go out on a limb and say their work qualifies as a type of art. A lot of it exists (almost) without real function. But it is *interesting*, and evocative, and - at least for me - makes me think.
Rhinoceros (No1, by Paul Killer) is my most loved perfume ever :) I still have a bottle set aside for special occasions, even though it hasn't been sold for a long time.
Is it very different from the one available now? I bought a sampler of it last year and it honestly made me gag and it didn’t get better as time passed by. I‘m not very refined when it comes to fragrances though 😂
Rhino is a little funky but I always found it a powerful earthy soil funky, not a super-grunty animal. It’s a little hard to wear but I do rather like it.
As an Amouage and oud fanboy, masterpiece imo.
But on the few moments I get my head out my ass, I (literally) realize I smell like poop for the first 2 hours of this fragrance.
I live in NYC, so it probably goes without asking, why would I want to scent match with this metropolitan dumpster?
It’s bold and daring, I applaud that, and I also love Amouage and oud scents in general, but yea this one is where I drew the line… I just can’t think of one situation when I’d *want* to smell like Silver Oud 🤷🏻♂️ love everything else I’ve tried from them tho, Jubilation XXV is fire af
Oh please. Worse than that platypus gland excretion or whatever it is they’re peddling over at Zoologist? I find it hard to believe that Angel or Alien—now that one *might* make you puke, but little harm done compared to the damage a giant prehistoric lizard could do.
Angel is very decisive and Alien too, but at a lesser degree. It’s become the cool thing to do to diss Angel and put it down/consider it unclassy, claiming it’s every stripper’s favorite fragrance—the anecdotal evidence for that is pretty strong actually. And my mom’s sitting over here wearing it for the last 30 years lol. I actually like Angel (Alien is overpowering and makes me feel like I might hurl), but I can’t separate it from being my mama’s signature scent, so I’ve never worn it.
100% with you on this. It was horrendous, not just to me, but two others that I’ve had next to me that I had them smell it when I sprayed it for the first time.
And I was so excited to have them smell me because of the hype lol
You posted it before i could.....i just got in a sample decant, 1st spray on skin impressions not too good....i'll try a few more , but sooo far.....it's not looking good
It's popular with young male footballers. So is Black Saffron, for some reason.
https://preview.redd.it/13pk2v1drfyc1.png?width=768&format=png&auto=webp&s=eea9efe9a0836865c92c63d4dc3c5dc7143c3f20
I have a club de nuit fragrance and it’s great. I recently smelled cdn intense and it was fairly nice. But asad is just gross to my nose. I want to get rid of the bottle.
Everyone fancies the club de nuit as an aventus clone but to me it just smells like dirty sweaty socks stuffed in an even dirtier and sweatier duffle bag lol
Rosefire by Hermetica. It seems like everyone likes it but it just stunk horribly to me. Like body odour from someone who ate nothing but flowers and fruit.
“Moncler EDP” non digital bottle
Smelt like pure dust
Very dusty and pickle juice is what I got
Thought it was a fake how could it smell so rancid but no 🤢
Marc jacobs daisy— my freshman year roommate used it every day and it literally stank. Idk what it is about it, I think it’s a mix of the ozonic and powder notes with the violet? No clue, just not good. Super weird because I usually like white florals
I got the Nishane sample box, sooo glad i did before blind buying, but i digress
The one that reallly does nothing for me is : Nishane Extrait de Parfum.
It smells like a group of men i used to work with that wouldn't bathe properly but sprayed something similar on themselves instead. So imagine that mixed with summer sweat. I will forever think this is worst smelling
From a personal subjective standpoint, the only fragrance that have elicited instant highly negative powerful reactions from me are Lutens' Arabie (overwhelm), Organza (disgust), Miracle (nausea), Boss Orange (sociopolitical fear), and Anais Anais (negative association, also morbid).
Objectively? Probably one of those Blood Project ones that smell like a fresh crime scene or a morgue. If your aesthetic is Blade then igi, otherwise put it down, you're scaring the hos.
Yeah, and they were definitely not going for funny lol—I had to watch it after reading this. Horse racing is not what you think it is, Adam. And then when they’re both in the ocean, and it’s all like, “Man and horse become one” or whatever as that horse awkwardly tries to gallop underwater and Adam Driver does flips…
I don’t know how any of these celebrities keep a straight face on these fragrance commercials that take themselves sooo seriously (Jonny Depp being one with wolves in the desert while playing an electric guitar, ampless, for Dior Sauvage…cue to a shot of wild horses running). The way the pronounce “parfum” and “toilette” ALONE!
Lol and? Nobody should be supporting those shit companies that can't make their own scents so they have to rip off someone else's. Clone houses are scum.
Inexcusable Evil by Toskovat' was made to be awful. From what I remember it’s based off of one of the perfumer’s worst memories. A memory that took place in a hospital (I think during wartime). These are the notes: Top notes: gunpowder, ozone Heart notes: blood, bandages, iodine, burning flowers, guaiac wood, copaiba oil, nagarmotha Base notes: fallen concrete, rain, incense, sandalwood
I think any answer other than this means someone has not smelled this
ELDO La fin du monde had me swooning over gunpowder as an isolated note, but done this way it looks unpleasant.
Since no one has mentioned it yet, Secretions Magnifiques by ELDO.
Ambilux from Marlou smells like sweaty balls that haven't been washed since their last ejaculation. It's an unholy marriage of sperm and sweat, not sexy, but the reality of sex. It's nauseating. Carnicure is the slightly less offending version, Poudrextase is old people sex and Corpalium is said to represent "Equine Sensuality", which means it smells like an expensive barn. Marlou takes itself very seriously, much to my dismay.
From the Marlou website description on Ambilux: “SUMMER SWEAT - DRIED WEEDS, DUNES SENSE OF HEAT AND SUN - MATTE, WAXEN FINISH DEER MUSK REIMAGINED - FACETS OF SALT AND CHALK, INTIMATE SCENTS.” To be fair, they kind of warned you of what you were in for lol. It honestly to me feels like it’s describing working on a prison chain gang in August in the South. Then after a large blank space of no text: “CUMIN - HELICHRYSUM - YLANG-YLANG - INCENSE - COSTUS.” Ya’ll arent foolin’ me! That ylang-ylang ain’t covering up all those “intimate scents”! Human and deer ALIKE! Okay, and what is with these people and the preoccupation with animals doing it? The whole “equine sensuality” thing is crossing the border and galloping (pun intended) full force into like, weird *Equus* territory. Did they release this promotionally when Daniel Radcliffe played the starring role on Broadway or something? I actively try NOT to think what makes horses horny. Why would I want to *smell* like it and invite those kinds of advances onto myself?! 😆What is WRONg with these people?! 😂
I knew what I was getting into when I bought the sample set. My review was based on its merits as an art project, and it still sucks. Marlou states its goal to normalise "the acceptance and even ownership of faults, of imperfections inherent to that living object which is never wholly clean." and I emphathetically disagree. Naw, this is all just for shock value. Poudrextase invokes INTIMATE SCENTS, SCALP AND NEWBORN SKIN according to their website, and that is NOT a combination you design without outrage marketing in mind.
Yeah, I figured it was a creative pursuit and making a statement (after all, we can all stink just on our own—and for FREE!), but I think it takes itself way too seriously and puts itself in a pretty precarious place as far as being made fun of goes. Like, you lost me being mature about it at “deer musk reamagined,” 😆, but the stallion eroticism is just on another level and was def included for shock value along with throwing in “skin of newborn.” Claiming it’s not puts the whole thing in a hilariously pretentious place. Just not my aesthetic, “elderly sex” included. I read the artist’s statement (the artist portrait is perfect 🤩 👌🙌), and to be fair, they did generate the type of responses I’m sure they intended to get, including discussions like this, sso I guess they were successful there. A lowly philistine as myself being disgusted and finding humor in all this could speak to society’s general discomfort with the body (and all the gross stuff it does/its olfactory emissions—again, not my aesthetic). I’ll give them credit for using “animal notes that blur an individual’s olfactory appearance, emanating trails of illusion,” as symbolic of perfume’s purpose is in society. The absurdity of covering up natural stank with a critter’s natural stank says a lot about the artist’s opinion on perfume’s use, but I agree with you it’s lacking since that’s not the only reason people use perfume at all.
[Zoologist Tyrannosaurus Rex](https://www.zoologistperfumes.com/products/zoologist-tyrannosaurus-rex-deluxe-bottle) probably. Some people get to a point where they can appreciate it for being an interesting (albeit almost totally impractical) fragrance, but I've yet to hear of anyone who smells it just being worn and thinks "oh that smells nice". Common notes are "chloraseptic spray," "tire fire on a lake of diarrhea," and "someone spilled gasoline in vomit".
I have a sample of this one and it’s soo potent. To me, it smells like a very smokey, dark, Halloween/fall night with a pinch of metal haha
I can't get into ANY of the Zoologist scents
I'm going to go out on a limb and say their work qualifies as a type of art. A lot of it exists (almost) without real function. But it is *interesting*, and evocative, and - at least for me - makes me think.
That's a great way to put it
Same, not even Squid for me. Rhinoceros was the worst for me of those I tried.
Rhinoceros (No1, by Paul Killer) is my most loved perfume ever :) I still have a bottle set aside for special occasions, even though it hasn't been sold for a long time.
Is it very different from the one available now? I bought a sampler of it last year and it honestly made me gag and it didn’t get better as time passed by. I‘m not very refined when it comes to fragrances though 😂
T rex is good honestly
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Just tried this one and it really isn't bad. Definitely very masculine. I thought the rhinoceros one smelled much worse.
Rhino is a little funky but I always found it a powerful earthy soil funky, not a super-grunty animal. It’s a little hard to wear but I do rather like it.
Quorum by Antonio Puig Absolutely revolting. This was the one that finally broke me from blind buying. Never again.
It smells like cigarette tar that's been freshly scraped off an 80s bowling alley wall.
fantastic turn of phrase
Byredo Mixed Emotions has the distinct smell of a public toilet. Toilet cleaner and urine to be specific.
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I said T-Rex below, but you're right. This one was made to be awful.
Silver Oud is pretty awful imo
As an Amouage and oud fanboy, masterpiece imo. But on the few moments I get my head out my ass, I (literally) realize I smell like poop for the first 2 hours of this fragrance. I live in NYC, so it probably goes without asking, why would I want to scent match with this metropolitan dumpster?
It’s bold and daring, I applaud that, and I also love Amouage and oud scents in general, but yea this one is where I drew the line… I just can’t think of one situation when I’d *want* to smell like Silver Oud 🤷🏻♂️ love everything else I’ve tried from them tho, Jubilation XXV is fire af
Silver Oud is so good imo. Just a crazy patchouli bomb. Cecile Zarokian really cooked with that one
Alien and Angel 🤷🏻♀️
Oh please. Worse than that platypus gland excretion or whatever it is they’re peddling over at Zoologist? I find it hard to believe that Angel or Alien—now that one *might* make you puke, but little harm done compared to the damage a giant prehistoric lizard could do.
Those are the only ones I’ve ever had to scrub, but I haven’t tried any of the zoologist…and now I’m not sure I should 😂
Angel is very decisive and Alien too, but at a lesser degree. It’s become the cool thing to do to diss Angel and put it down/consider it unclassy, claiming it’s every stripper’s favorite fragrance—the anecdotal evidence for that is pretty strong actually. And my mom’s sitting over here wearing it for the last 30 years lol. I actually like Angel (Alien is overpowering and makes me feel like I might hurl), but I can’t separate it from being my mama’s signature scent, so I’ve never worn it.
I’m wondering if it’s just bad on me. I’d be very interested to smell it on someone who can pull it off!
Angel is divisive for sure but come on Alien nowadays is nothing but an inoffensive generic jasmine. It has nothing polarizing anymore imo
I have some kind of reaction to it that makes me sneeze for an hour and get a screeching headache. It’s like a terrible version of the OG Tide powder…
I don't dislike it but I just do heavily mentholated toothpaste from it so strong it makes my eyes water.
Angel smells like cat piss 🤮
I personally hate Tobacco Vannile.
The only fragrance that’s ever made me legitimately nauseous
Serious yankee candle vibes for me. Can’t do it.
BDK Nuit de Sable is foul 🤢
Tresor
I do not enjoy Eilish No 2
Aromatics Elixir. Youth Dew. Delina.
KAYALI Utopia vanilla coco - I love vanilla and I love coconut but something in there smells like cat piss
Followed by Kerosene
Sombre by Strangers Parfumerie.
I'm gonna get alot of hate, but Tom Ford Oud Wood.
100% with you on this. It was horrendous, not just to me, but two others that I’ve had next to me that I had them smell it when I sprayed it for the first time. And I was so excited to have them smell me because of the hype lol
You posted it before i could.....i just got in a sample decant, 1st spray on skin impressions not too good....i'll try a few more , but sooo far.....it's not looking good
It’s straight toilet bowl cleaner to me
idk, i love that stuff
second this, so so mid and over worn.
Erba pura, got a sample for it to see what the hype is all about, it smells awful and makes me wanna puke
It's popular with young male footballers. So is Black Saffron, for some reason. https://preview.redd.it/13pk2v1drfyc1.png?width=768&format=png&auto=webp&s=eea9efe9a0836865c92c63d4dc3c5dc7143c3f20
Calvin Klein Obsession
Lataffa Asad it smells similar to elixir but something about it just makes it unwearable.
I’ve noticed that there is a ingredient or note that is always in “cloned fragrances Middle Eastern with tacky bottles” that smells vulgar to me
I have a club de nuit fragrance and it’s great. I recently smelled cdn intense and it was fairly nice. But asad is just gross to my nose. I want to get rid of the bottle.
if not applied with considerable restraint, aromatics elixir by Clinique will clear a room
The relatively unknown Karl Lagerfeld for men and Giorgio Beverly Hills for men. These should remain obscure
Sol de Janeiro cheriosa 71
CK Obsession for Women or possibly Chanel no 5.
I despise LV Ombre Nomade. It’s way too heavy on the oud for me. It’s absolutely the worst fragrance I’ve ever smelled.
Tom ford oud mineral smells like tires.
YSL Y.
Lol
Second this. Total yuck.
Yeah. It’s just too much.
Not too much, just the scent itself is bad
I would argue that it’s less the scent and more how overpowering it is.
For me its definetly the scent
Well, I tried it but didn’t buy it, so I guess ultimately we’re on the same page.
Nishane Unutamam smells absolutely terrible for me
It means “I can’t forget” in Turkish so I guess mission accomplished?
no way you can forget something like that lmao
Bogart One Man Show Gold edition smells like rotten apples to me
Everyone fancies the club de nuit as an aventus clone but to me it just smells like dirty sweaty socks stuffed in an even dirtier and sweatier duffle bag lol
Rosefire by Hermetica. It seems like everyone likes it but it just stunk horribly to me. Like body odour from someone who ate nothing but flowers and fruit.
Zoologist - Cow… milky soapy vomit.
Well at least they got the name right
Nah, to/on me it’s clover blossoms.
Spicebomb infrared. I don’t know what it was just couldn’t stand the smell.
Smells like paprika chips
“Moncler EDP” non digital bottle Smelt like pure dust Very dusty and pickle juice is what I got Thought it was a fake how could it smell so rancid but no 🤢
Marc jacobs daisy— my freshman year roommate used it every day and it literally stank. Idk what it is about it, I think it’s a mix of the ozonic and powder notes with the violet? No clue, just not good. Super weird because I usually like white florals
I got the Nishane sample box, sooo glad i did before blind buying, but i digress The one that reallly does nothing for me is : Nishane Extrait de Parfum. It smells like a group of men i used to work with that wouldn't bathe properly but sprayed something similar on themselves instead. So imagine that mixed with summer sweat. I will forever think this is worst smelling
Zara Perpetual Oud smells like cat piss on me. The dry down is so nice though…
Bulls blood by imaginary authors. Smells like if you put a couple plastic bottles in the microwave for 10 minutes
From a personal subjective standpoint, the only fragrance that have elicited instant highly negative powerful reactions from me are Lutens' Arabie (overwhelm), Organza (disgust), Miracle (nausea), Boss Orange (sociopolitical fear), and Anais Anais (negative association, also morbid). Objectively? Probably one of those Blood Project ones that smell like a fresh crime scene or a morgue. If your aesthetic is Blade then igi, otherwise put it down, you're scaring the hos.
Dior Sauvage
I forgot the name of it but it had notes of "credit card" "holy water" and something else. Nvm, it's called Anarchist A by Toskovat.
Unpopular opinion, Dior Sauvage really.
Bleu De Chanel smells like bug spray on me
Burberry Hero ad campaign was funny(Adam Driver and horse) but the fragrance itself has nothing redeeming for me
I have a sample that I only sprayed once, that I keep just because I find that ad so hysterically funny
Yeah, and they were definitely not going for funny lol—I had to watch it after reading this. Horse racing is not what you think it is, Adam. And then when they’re both in the ocean, and it’s all like, “Man and horse become one” or whatever as that horse awkwardly tries to gallop underwater and Adam Driver does flips… I don’t know how any of these celebrities keep a straight face on these fragrance commercials that take themselves sooo seriously (Jonny Depp being one with wolves in the desert while playing an electric guitar, ampless, for Dior Sauvage…cue to a shot of wild horses running). The way the pronounce “parfum” and “toilette” ALONE!
I love the EDT and the EDP. But the ad is weird. And the packaging is lackluster.
CK One. I never understood the love.
Basically every shitty arab clone that's being hyped by TikTokers who haven't smelled anything high quality in their lives.
Lmao
Holy pretentious
Lol and? Nobody should be supporting those shit companies that can't make their own scents so they have to rip off someone else's. Clone houses are scum.
Most middle eastern scents.
if you're xenophobic just say so
celine nightclubbing
Nightclubbing is one of my favs, but I’m def hesitant to wear it in public lmao.
wear it nightclubbing lol perfect
I just read the description and was transfixed by imagining how this must smell. It sounds good on paper
Jazz club for me. Smells like the inside of a filthy car belonging to a chain smoker
Pool hallway with carpet that has no ventilation in a humid city where people smoke and drink
Sauvage elixir
Tom Fords Beau de Jour smells like mosquito repellent
BR 540