Genetic Bliss

Genetic Bliss is definitely an interesting scent. I recently picked up a 10ml sample and have used it almost every day this past week. Its molecular, clean, and woodsy profile makes it the perfect scent for anything, quite frankly. At times, I'll get hit with the scent, while at other times it seems like I have gone nose-blind. An odd situation, but something I have found to love. Transitioning into the realm of molecular fragrances, Genetic Bliss is definitely a beginner-friendly and inviting fragrance that brings a decently long-lasting pleasure to the user. It's so simple and basic, helping me step back from the constant change and noise of the fragrance world today and appreciate the foundation of fragrance. Although I love this fragrance, the price point seems a little lopsided. I understand it is an art piece of a scent, but for many, including myself, I feel that toning the price down would help invite others to experience the beauty of Genetic Blisses's creation. Overall, I am impressed with my introduction to molecular fragrance and the house of 27 87. I look forward to wearing Genetic Bliss more and eventually purchasing a bottle. Edit: Genetic Bliss seems to have a wide variation of opinions on its scent, projection, notes, etc. Some seem to say it smells like burn't paper or burn't wood, but for me, is for sure more musky. Intimate to say the least, something you would wear to sleep, or if you were very close to someone. A pleasant skin scent that continues to grow in my heart. This is for sure not a safe blind buy, and a very interesting fragrance due to its individuality.

I gotta be honest here - I think 2787 scents are revolting. they are so bad I cannot imagine how people can wear them without gagging all the time. went through I think a 7-frag sample, and each and every one of them was worse than the last - except for genetic bliss. I’m recently leaning towards synthetic woody frags, and this one fits that bill perfectly. it is *completely* different from 2787’s usual “edgy” creations, it’s interesting that a perfumer capable of creating genetic bliss would also create some of the most vile-smelling frags out there. genetic bliss is mellow, inoffensive, under the radar, not flashy at all, it just sits there pretty close to your skin, waiting for someone to lean in or for you to gesture and bless everyone in your vicinity with the pleasantness of its scent - a scent which is synthetic cedar/sandalwood with a bit of synthetic oudy flair. it’s not groundbreaking or anything, it’s just pleasant, but that it is very much so. I got myself a couple of sample vials, will see if I like this after a week of wearing it layered with molecule 01, but I’ll probably get the full bottle once the samples run out.

Chemical woods done right. This is beautiful and mysterious, it is full of synthetic notes but it is really a great blend. To my nose it smells like a creamy, musky type of sandalwood/cedarwood combined with cashmeran/ iso e super, which gives a fuzzy vibe to the woods used. It's a perfect winter and fall scent, but also surprisingly good during summer despite its profile. It smells a bit like CDG wonderwood. I prefer Genetic bliss, which has something more, but that I can't point. This is the type of cologne you would turn your head to if you'd smell it randomly, because it doesn't really gives a fragrance vibe, more like a body-odor, in a really good way. The smell itself reminds me of the smell of the air in the city, when a thunder is about to occur. The performance is amazing, it stays hours and hours, and the projection/sillage plays tricks on me, it disappears sometimes and reappears randomly, with strong whiffs, even after hours. It gives me the best fragrance layering I've ever tried with Narciso Rodriguez For Him EDT. You should definitely try it.

Very nice peppery, vetiver x sandalwoody scent without being too loud but with strong penetration in the air wherever you are, even after 10+ hours of spraying. The similarities to Wonderwood (in sandalwood department) and to Tam Dao (in creamy cedarwood department) are obvious. Akigalawood signature flashes many trending perfumes at once, Bois Imperial drydown first comes to mind. With regards to @btpaulen's review below, there could be Iso-super type(s) for sure that might make it hard to smell sometimes, but there's definitely Javanol in this which is also very hard to smell but in fact being nuclear beast of an aroma chemical that smells in the air more than putting the nose close. However the price (for 87 ml) is way too much, personally I would go for Wonderwood/oud any day over this.

A really nice *abstract* scent. It's something between green-ish and wood-ish. Rather intense, when your nose *gets trained by it*(yes, this is how I would describe what's happened to me, at least; I went anosmic to this scent at one point, but now I sense it perfectly, all day.) Its intensity is somehow different from "non-molecular" frags. This one is always safe, never challenging, at least to yourself. It can be a different story for people in your environment, because things are happening *in your trail* that you may be not aware of. I often wear GB in office, and people would tell me stories about how they stumbled upon some "nice" or "pleasant" scent trail, but they would find it difficult to describe or identify it in more specific terms. As I told already, it's amazingly abstract.