Debauchery

As with most of my favorite BPAL fragrances, I like Debauchery because it doesn't smell like a modern fragrance. I can imagine someone in the '20's going to a perfumier for a custom blend and leaving the shop with this in a tall DeVilbiss atomizer. On me, it's musky, floral, and sweet, but the floral notes rise above it all to keep it from being syrupy. (I also don't detect any vanilla here.) The florals are well-blended and balanced, so jasmine and orange blossom are my best guesses, and there may be a tad bit of honeysuckle in there. The "incense" aspects--a smoky combination of opium and perhaps sandalwood--keep the florals in check, yet on me it doesn't smell like I've borrowed a guy's cologne. @Novembertrees put it perfectly: on me, too, it smells "like a brothel where someone's been smoking opium." I mean that in a good way. On me, the incense and civet come out more as it dries down, and the florals take a step back. It also gets sweeter as it dries down, as the mingled musky, sweet pipe tobacco aspects come out. Somehow it manages to do this without smelling like I've borrowed a guy's cologne. If you're a BPAL collector, on me Debauchery is overall slightly less sweet and more floral than my favorite BPAL fragrances, Suspiro and Vixen. I wear this on cool Summer evenings (in the heat, this would be too much) and on Winter evenings as well. I wore it to Motley Crue's Homecoming show at the Hollywood Bowl, which, if you know anything about the band's history, was pretty spot-on.

This brings me back to the small bottle of YSL Opium I had in the 90's. Not as complex as Opium, but amazing for the price. If you don't love civet, you will not like Debauchery. Fortunately I am nuts for nasty civet, and this does the trick.

Mmmm. It starts out sharp and spicy and dries down to something in the same family as Tabu, but much better. Sweet-spicy-sex-skin smell. Yes!

aggressively and unashamedly horny. respect

Ohh, dirty, nasty, sleazy and lovely!

My husband and I both are lucky enough to be able to wear civet. On him, Debauchery smells like an opium den with a brothel in the back room. On me, it smells like a brothel where someone's been smoking opium. There's a deep, dirty musky scent with a sweet, spicy tone that borders on sweet pipe tobacco. Funny how the same scent can smell so radically different on two people. Debauchery lasts a good 6 hours on me, and even then it's just calmed down somewhat. Sillage is good-- you can smell it across the room. It only takes maybe two drops and everyone can smell me. This isn't a perfume I'd wear to the office or just on a casual day out; it's more of an intimate, naughty nighttime perfume. I like it, I just can't wear it daily :3

LAB'S DESCRIPTION "A sinful, licentious scent: self-indulgent and luxurious. Mingled heady civet and red Egyptian musk, thickened with opium" My chemistry likes Civet, unfortunately I don't think I like it myself. This perfume amells like the labs "Czernobog" That was a masculine smelling blend where this on is "Czernobog Pour Femme" Czernobog's opening notes were green notes and civet. This is opium & civet. It's bearable at first but as it dries the Civet just get's too... weird. How can you describe this strange alien smell. It smells like carpet.