Boris Bidjan Saberi

I'd been enjoying wearing fragrances from houses like Mad Et Len and Nasomatto for some time, and had no intention of changing that... until I received an order of 11 by BBS Bamba 2s direct from Boris's team in Barcelona. They must've spritzed the packaging and box with this scent. I had the packaging next to me for the next few days, and kept smelling wafts of this weird, alluring, and eventually extremely addicting scent. I didn't even know BBS made a fragrance, but I started searching after a few days because it reached a point where I HAD to know what I was smelling, and where I could buy it for myself. Obviously, after seeing reviews, it's easy to write this one off as a "miss". But then again, so is fashion in general. Someone into more traditional styles of dress would find Boris's mainline or 11 line of more techwear-focused pieces extremely off-putting, while others who gravitate toward darker, more brutalist, technical, dark, and/or experimental styles might find many of the pieces as grail items. While some types of fashion, music, and art are much more "safe" and stay within the relative boundaries of what most would at least find "inoffensive", BBS has never subscribed to that mentality. If you're the type of person who shudders at the thought of being completely forgettable, benign, inoffensive, beige... give this scent a try. Perhaps because it's based on Geza Schoen's Molecule 1 (pure Iso E Super), the pure synthetic molecule reacts to peoples' individual body chemistry more than other scents. My partner tried it on, and it took on a harsh, acidic, almost gasoline-like scent, while on me it expressed much more subtle warm spices, leather, and the slight glue scent that almost has an acetone-type quality (in a good way, if that makes sense...?) It's strange and avant garde, but the way my body chemistry reacts with it, it turns into one of the most addicting, alluring fragrances I've tried. Definitely try a sample before getting a bottle, but don't be scared off by the strange notes and polarizing reviews. I'd always rather go for a "you either love it or hate it" approach for most things - only mediocrity is found in the middle.

The smell of horse leather is one of the unique ingredients of this perfume. I found this out after contacting the Boris Bidjan Sabery fashion house in Barcelona. Fresh and dark start, settles into leather and dries into tobacco smokey base. The scent is ultra avant garde. The longevity is not good, at max it stays around for two hours. I think this may have been intentional given the elements, such as Industrial glue would be very overpowering in a long-lasting scent. I am a huge fan of this scent because of it's use of atypical notes. It is worth having, because it is a one of a kind scent.

I never thought I’d be a glue sniffer, but I’m addicted to this waxy industrial glue scent. Conceptual scent as well as the notion of do we buy fragrance to please oneself or please others? I have yet to have anyone comment on me wearing this scent but I love smelling it on myself.

This smells like grass on a cold day or a nice salad served on a metal plate. I bought it due to the industrial glue note and hearing it described as “grass thrown on a factory floor.” This description overstates the industrial/chemical/edginess of the fragrance and set me up for disappointment. The glue is barely there. It is a subtle, nice and fresh scent, albeit pretty cold. If you’re hoping for realistic VOCs this isn’t it. It did not beat out Black Sea by Lorenzo Pazzaglia for best dark/clean/industrial men’s scent for me, although that one is more blue and this one is more green.

Opens bright with rhubarb and industrial glue before settling back into a warm, gently spiced leather with just a bit of tobacco sweetness. I don’t find this to be particularly out there — it’s actually a pretty friendly, traditional masculine-leaning leather. Performance is fleeting and cologne-like (though to be fair the skimpy luckyscent dancer may not be helping matters here). For now, it’s just okay to me, but I’ll be revisiting in the springtime when the bright opening might appeal more.