AB

I found AB to be more pleasant than A of the Blood Concept. I have not tried the rest. The top notes open with some very metallic notes of aldehydes and aluminum. I believe the attempt in the top notes is to equate the evolutionary line that evolved into (or from) an urban setting. The design is supposed to elicit a feeling of skyscrapers and metal. It did do this, but I initially pictured a trailer park with the opening notes. It wasn’t until reading the intent of the designer did I imagine a skyline or some sort. Perhaps this says more about me than the fragrance, though. Anyway, the initial note of the aluminum and aldehydes is pretty potent and dies down to a more palatable scent after about an hour. The middle notes are pebble and water (so says the website). I didn’t really find these notes to be of much consequence. As said before, when the top notes fade, the smell is still pleasant, but there’s not much there (pebble and water?). I can still smell the metal, but there is a bit of a cleaner scent. Barely noticeable, but nice. The base notes come roaring back. So, there’s a nice back and forth so far as sillage goes in this fragrance. The aldehydes start out pretty intense, they die down into a barely noticeable, but pleasant scent of acqua and pebble, and then (at least with me), when the base notes hit, the aldehydes return. Their return is not as strong as the initial blast, but its definitely noticeable. And it’s a nice conclusion. AB is definitely unique. A bit expensive, but definitely unique...As far as buying goes, I’d try a sample and not blind buy. I would imagine it’s either love or hate with this one and therefore there’s a good chance someone may feel they’ve been choused out of 155$ if they don’t like it.

Was much harder to find this than actual aluminium, but the sour sterile metal now in contact with my nasal mechanoreceptors makes all involved efforts worth themselves. Incredible aluminium essence – if you love aluminium, you’ll enjoy this scent, and if you don’t love aluminium, this perfume will make you reconsider that relationship. The scent forces your mind into a room of measurable/categorical morality, of which this lawful neutral scent consciously alters how it’s perceived – poking sharp stone through the aldehydes and inviting a manufactured evil into your brain’s sulci. I assume this evil can be properly located under crisp aluminium foil – this perfume wraps it around your skin, covering sinful incubation – preventing bacterial vice from escaping. This perfume helps the wearer value aluminium’s spiritual foundation; there is face-centred cubic magic here, and the scent makes you appreciate it. The shiny bottle is of course, also incredibly beautiful. (Review edited for accuracy)

Unique and enigmatic, it smells like being a small child giggling having a lovely time in a bubble bath. Not the scent of the bath or the bubbles, rather the scent of the laughter. Clean, considered, polite, this is a lovely scent to apply in the mornings. It is bracing, like fresh snow or walking aside a frozen river. Happy and scrubbed, gender neutral, innoffensive and morish, if you really explore it there is a salty nuance not in a revolting Secretions Magnifique way, rather a pinch of organic matter which serves to exalt the polished metals and brisk waters and smooth stones (and, the vague recollection of clean laundry... and perhaps also brand new swimming pools?) that make up the body of this most unusual and futuristic scent that I dare say IMHO would suit everyone from children to the (fashion forward) elderly. I don't see what's not to like, and this the antithesis of what I usually enjoy in a perfume.

Chosen for its smell and not because of the blood type - I'm intrigued by this perfume. Yes, it has a green, seaweedy note to it, but the combination of aldehyde, metal, and the smell of stone, is what I find fascinating and I actually enjoy wearing it a lot. This is not a "bloody" scent at all, yet it doesn't smell so artificial to my nose and does not remind me of cleaning fluids. To me, this is an exotic far east dish blended with the salty-cool scent of nordic mountains and shores. I must say this is not a proper "office wear" type of perfume, yet as it stays rather close to the skin (at least on me), I guess you can try to pull it off.

This is very different. Great casual wear scent. People can say what they want but I like it.

This is probably the most cold and uninviting thing I've ever smelled aside from certain cleaning products. Among the things that came to mind upon smelling were chrome, the future, and robots. It's not that it smells bad, it's actually quite pleasant. It's just very sterile and lacks any human element. The fragrance itself is composed of a noticeably synthetic cedar note, something cold and electrifying like camphor or menthol, and blood concept's signature metallic "nosebleed smell" accord. A friend of mine who I invited over to sample this fragrance described it as smelling like "something a cyborg would wear."

Oh! a fragrance inspired by my blood type. Who'da thunk it?! The notes are interesting. It seems like nothing I have had; aldehyde and aluminum in aquatic metallic heart. This AB just sounds sharp and mineral fresh, and cold. The bottle looks okay. Nobody would expect it to be a fragrance. Watch out it may end up in a medicine cabinet. I gotta save some serious cash to get one because it is terribly expensive! Remark: I am a little jealous of the O because of the rose and leather. Darn blood type! but being AB, I guess I can take anything. :)

Very interesting perfumery from Antoine. The opening could be challenging to some and lasts a while. Imagine if you fell down into a well filled with brackish mineral water and metal. That's the first 60-90 minutes on my skin. Very earthy, mineral, wet rocks, and metallic. After that the citrus (which amazingly is still there) takes the lead. The drydown smells like you're at the beach but not tropical, more stormy salt. Artistic. You must be into avant garde niche weirdness to appreciate this one.

Lemon isn't listed as a note but I'm getting a soft lemon and cold metallic scent. Strange but wearable.

acquistato a scatola chiusa e annusata la boccetta e una goccia sulla pelle, avrei voluto immensamente fare il reso! non essendo possibile ho provato ad indossarlo e dargli una possibilità. le note di apertura è di cedro, fortissimo e aldeidi che lo rendono frizzante. questi due componenti entrano in bocca provocando addirittura una reazione metallica e aumento della salivazione. pian piano (e fortunatamente)queste note si mitigano e subentra una nota marina come la brezza che arriva dal mare (un mare agitato) ad invadere un limoneto vicino al mare. A differenza di altri non lo sento affatto freddo, non percepisco affatto i sentori metallici (a parte la potenza del cedro che in bocca diventa metallico). In realtà un buon agrumato, ma senza innovazioni,buono per la primavera e l'estate. Alla fine lo adotterò come profumo estivo e probabilmente consumerò tutti i 25 ml della boccetta. Lo ricomprerei? forse no, anche se devo studiarlo un po' più a lungo.

aggiornamento: dopo un' ora sulla mia pelle è pressoché scomparso, lasciando un debolissimo sentore di pulito sulla pelle. peccato perché col passare dei minuti, spegnendosi, diventava un po' più complesso e piacevole.

Metal, feelings of hypoxemia, slight cedar wood. I like the concept of the combination of the notes, however I would consider this a very daring perfume to wear. Very avant garde.

I seem to recall some talk on the men's forum recently about cold fragrances, well AB is a frozen fragrance. This is like a turbo fizzy lemon sherbet verbena blast of greenness & aldehydes which is borderline unpleasant to my nose. The temperature is sub zero on this one I almost imagined my skin turning to a frosty white ice cube of flesh, as if submerged in liquid nitrogen. It's truly watery even a bit salted and very sharply metallic. Notes like 'slate' which anyone with a logical mind would think was nonsense, actually are evoked in this fragrance it's truly remarkable...but pretty awful in equal measure. I'm not just all about warmth(although I do prefer it) but this is not even particularly refreshing to me although some will love this scent I'm sure because of its sheer Avant garde bravery, I'm not one of those people.

Excessively sour on start, i'd say "dish soap lemon", but there's also something i can't quite place, maybe it's not too bad. It smells like that time when you were on a vacation somewhere by the sea, and had to use the public shower, the one that uses cold sea water, mostly just to rinse off the sand, and the sun is up and hot, and there are someone else's kids running around screeching, and the smell of hot slates beneath you feet meets the metallic note from the shower head, and your sunblock lotion is all lemonish. I miss the salt, there's no salty notes in it, or the picture would be complete. Definitely does not smell bloody (i hoped) I would have liked it, but the sourness is just too much. Maybe it behaves better in a colder weather, i'll give it another test.

unfortunately my decant might've been really expired. i was promised aluminium and blood. the nosebleed-accord is barely hanging on. once the zinging lime bug repellant phase burns off there's almost nothing left underneath. if you keep sniffing your wrist like a maniac there's a 50/50 chance you'll catch a tiny bit of foil. hope this goes back in production x

This was the most disgusting perfume I have ever smelled. Cold? Yes. It is cold inside and out - if vampires had perfume this would be it. The images were those of cold hospital room with white cold tile floor, freshly wiped blood with bleach and dead evil eyes that watch my every move.

Unfortunately I find it difficult to say "no" to other people. This is why I am planning to purchase this fragrance, so it can do that task for me.

Exactly like lemon dish soap. If you like that, then go for it

Luckyscent.com. You can get a sample there.

sterile is the first word that comes to mind. the predominant scent in this is rubbing alcohol, followed by a sour, tangy, and almost salty citrus. super metallic in a way that leaves a taste in your mouth. there’s something about this that smells like fear, and evokes the same ‘pit in your stomach’ feeling. this made me genuinely gag

This is the weirdest scent I have ever smelled. It is bizarre and abstract, strange and at times almost repulsive but yet I am drawn to its avant-garde artistry. It is the most unusual out of all four Blood Concept scents for sure. It has the metallic and industrial edge. It smells like nothing in nature. It is like one of those paintings that do not even suppose to reflect something real but more of a reality perceived by a creative artist’s mind. The first impression is metallic and cold but also a bit fresh. It smells like pool water and shiny stone surface warmed by the sun. It also reminds me of something I would smell in a crazy scientist lab in a science fiction movie. I guess it is this metallic edge that makes it smell so strange. The aldehydes are very light and only appear in the heart notes for me. So it is not a traditional, heavy on aldehydes composition. The scent becomes a bit friendlier as time passes (or perhaps my nose adjusts to it). It becomes strangely fresh, definitely aquatic unisex composition where metallic note is still bizarre but with a pleasant edge. At the same time the scent is not harsh at all but wears gently on my skin. It is artificial but yet it is not a cheap composition. I can smell the artistry and quality in this one. The dry down is the gentlest of all stages. The metallic note is incredibly soft here and the scent becomes much warmer. The sillage is pleasant and the longevity is good. I normally rate perfumes but I am a bit perplexed with this one. It certainly gets my vote for being interesting and I liked that I had to totally open my mind and get out of my comfort zone for this one. But is it wearable? I honestly do not see myself ever wearing this other than at home for the experience of it. If you are crazy like me about scents and love trying unusual ones, then go for a sample of it. But it is definitely not a blind buy material.

When I first knew about this line I thought about something targeted to teenagers obsessed with Twilight and the whole vampire thing but then, after I got an informative brochure from my retailer I realized that this line has a more "artistic" concept. The Blood Concept line has nothing to do with blood itself (or Secretions Magnifique kind of stuff), they're more based on the concept that evolution happened mainly through blood types. AB should represent the urban life, big cities, technology, modernism (the contemporary era). IMO this is the weirdest of the whole line. It opens with a blast of sparkling and sharp aldehydes with a remarkable metallic note. The overall effect is cold, almost freezing and smells somehow halfway between unripe fruits and synthetic pine (???). Weird. Mineral notes lurks in the back while a watery accord remarks its presence adding even more cleanness. Usually I'm not into "clean" kind of fragrances but this composition push the clean/aldehydic aspect to the very limit becoming somehow intriguing and definitely futuristic (read: never smelled something like this before). AB projects pretty good and has a remarkable lasting power (more than 8hrs on my skin). Wearable? Not sure yet but while it is definitely a bizarre composition, it resembles anything but blood (which in this case is obviously good). Clean, sparkling, cold and sort of aseptic. Wether you'll like it or not be aware that AB is anything but disgusting. Vampires has to watch somewhere else. Again, more of a piece of conceptual "art" than a body fragrance. Rating: 6.5/10

got 5 ml of this from Surrender to Chance, was drawn in by the description invoking cities, modernism, etc. I have a soft spot for these synthetic type fragrances so I bought a small decant on impulse (black friday sale). Well I get no aluminium or any metallic notes from this. I applied it first to skin and got some aldehydic fizz in the opening which then tapered off into pure lemon scented dish soap. I hoped this might improve with some time, but 2, 3, 4 hours later it remained exactly the same, which I guess deserves some credit because it's certainly very long lasting and consistent. But nothing else, just lemon dish soap. Which makes me think a significant amount of the aldehydes are Citral or something similar. I only detected a hint of metallic notes when sprayed on paper, so either my nose or skin is just not suited to this or I got a bad batch. This doesn't invoke anything urban, modern or clean unless that cleanliness is a suburban kitchen. It also makes my eyes water a little as well, and I've never been sensitive to other fragrances, even those that are very aldehydic. Compared to CdG Odeur 53 (one of the other big "synthetics" which I fell in love with the first time I smelled the sample) I smell no metal, this is pure citrus (and bad citrus). Skip this, stick with Odeur 53, which is a very metallic, anomalous and electrifying (literally it feels like licking 9 volts) piece of genius. Maybe I'm just not made for this but if you want to try it definitely get a sample (even smaller than my 5 ml)

I would call this the strangest mercury/aquatic I have ever smelt. But this "concoction" reminds me so much of Jovan Individuality Water element that it is ridiculous. When I first applied Water element to my skin it smelled as if water itself had bled on me. If there were ever a way for water to bleed, this would be what it would smell like. Very metallic, very aquatic and rich. Not creamy rich but dense and concentrated. It smells okay after an hour or so but never wear something like this in summer. The same reaction is had by BC. The sillage is great but it becomes so concentrated into the skin that it practically seeps into every pore in your nostrils. You will breathe it in and unconsciously it will hit you at random. JIWE is made as an oil concentrate, BC is made as a eau concentration which makes a huge difference. The sillage is great if you would like to smell like this all day. So sad that such a strange scent such as this was created for a unique concept that deserves so much more. I like strange but this is one of those random freak scents that give you a WTH moment. It's made for my blood type but this is not a scent that should be worn by all of the type or anyone that will be in range of anyone with a working olfactory sense.

Blind bought a full bottle of the perfume dropper version off Ebay for the bargain £15!! The initial dab on my wrist was almost floral/hyacinth with a burst of sea water, reminded me of my childhood living by the coast after spending the day by the sea, and having that fresh ozone smell on your skin and clothes when you get home. After about half an hour it mellowed but couldn't quite put my finger on the notes. It wasn't until later that afternoon we had a thunderstorm, and I went into my back garden, which has a small area where my plantpots stand on a mix of gravel & shale, that I realised it was the metallic/wet pebble notes, mixed in with the 'hot electricity in the air' smell you get with storms. Weirdly Blood Concept AB doesn't smell cold/icy on me like a few of the other reviewers have mentioned, it has more of a fresh spring air kinda vibe on me, and I love the metallic tang it has running through it, albeit a hot metal spark scent rather than cold stainless steel. I find it quite a unique scent (probably due to the high price putting lots of people off wanting to buy it!) I love how it smells on me!!! It'll be interesting to see if it smells the same on my skin in the middle of winter.

I tested this one first because I'm curios about a fragrance inspired to my blood sign. It' a full agglomerate of absolutely synthetic notes very strange and supposed to be a product of an olfactive experiment. What can I say? Metallic. Surely it recalls hemoglobine iron smell. ABO is the group considered the universal receptor, and maybe all these notes mixed have this purpose to fix the ABO antigenes profile in the mind of who smells it. After that I tested the O one and I find it more wearable, even if strange. Probably I won't spend anything to buy it and wear it. But they are all curios and genial but not wearable if only in very special occasions.

Of the four, this is the one I like least, BUT, I don't dislike it. This one definitely smells the most suggestive of blood, to me. Not to put anyone off from trying this, but there is just the slightest resemblance to secretions magnifique.. not the whole effect of it, just one of the notes. I was really excited to purchase these samples on luckyscent after the long wait :)

So..... urgh! this was either massively reformulated into something completely different, or more likely - the perfumes that are currently being sold by discounters have now expired. This is nothing like the salty metallic thing I remember and now just smells of a very faint, lemon scented toilet cleaner.

Rubbing alcohol and lemon juice. As for the sea water, pebbles, and mineral notes that other reviewers are mentioning, I just don't get any of it. And I wish I did, because those reviews are what made me sample this fragrance in the first place. One reviewer mentioned lemon dish detergent. Spot on.

Where you can buy the perfume??? I really want to smell it, did someone know a website?? please let me know.

Thank you Whitefluffy hehe is really expensive, good advice buy a sample, Thanks again

Lutens L’eau froide and also laine de verre. Icy snowy and outdoorsy.