Purple Stain

Got a sample of this with another purchase... Super interesting! The "inspiration" on the BTSO site reads "purple wine stains spead across the pages of an old leather jounal, soaking into the paper..." - pretty spot on. The opening screeches a little with an acidic red wine accord and there is a rubbery note to the leather here that's quite unique, but both mellow as time passes. The sweet notes are less pronounced in this, compared to some of BTSO's other offerings; they balance the acidic notes well. The spice comes through later for me once the acidic top has started to dry down. The base notes play well together offering a strong spine to the fragrance. Overall, on my skin at least, this invokes the morning after a party where someone has spilled a glass of aged shiraz on your outfit and you're making the walk of shame home. A stale cloud of decadence and opulence permeates the air around you telling tales of the night before. A powerful scent that will certainly turn heads. With the majority of BTSO, definitely not a blind buy. Would I buy a full bottle? Maybe, just struggling to find the context in which I'd wear it - a date perhaps? I don't know It's certainly a masterpiece - 8/10

This is a “bad girl” perfume. Just screams sexy to me. It’s giving alluring, experienced sex kitten vibes. I’m not a fan of the opening which to me smells like wine, and I think could give more sensitive folks a headache. After the first 20-30 minutes it’s starts to develop into a very beautiful blended warm sweet (not to sweet) grape (fruity) woody, somewhat incense like, amber smell. On my skin this just got sweeter and more woody by the 6+ hour range. The sillage is perfect at about arms length, and this will absolutely last on clothes and skin until washed off. I love how unique this fragrance is, and how I feel when wearing it. I currently have a small decant, and will likely purchase a bottle. I am very interested in testing more fragrances from this brand. I enjoyed smelling a few others in store, and this one seemed to grab me.

Purple Stain from BTSO perfumed by Jordi Fernández is an avant-garde purple drank fragrance that is blended impeccably. The light smoky oud and the Kool Aid jammer-Little Hug Fruit Barrel Juice sweetness. Followed by a drunken orange blossom with the complimentary addition akigalawood and ambrofix that has this fragrance radiating off the skin.This rich vanilla emerges as the fragrance dries down. Another artistic creation from Fernández that is highly wearable and unique. A must try and this one is neck and neck for my favorites of the four intial fragrances launched in the Extrait Extrême collection.

This is absolutely fucking incredible perfumery. I don’t know how they make it eternal, but it is magic. It’s not a daily driver. One bottle may last me my entire lifetime (although I bought a second one, just in case). It’s a gloriously juicy purple wine and spicy dark leather scent. It evolves from sweet and juicy to woody and dark. There are nefarious elements to it, but it’s witchy and sticky and makes me feel like a heathen. Not to everyone’s taste, sure, but I love it and I never wish to be without it. Jordi Fernandez is a wizard.

Smell wise, this has a sweet, faintly grape wine smell to it. After leaving it for a while, it develops more florally and gradually de-intensifies in smell. In general, BTSO’s Extrait Extreme line is absolutely nuclear. The performance on this was incredible, I have been wearing testing a sample of this and it has lasted me for pretty much the whole day. I start my days early and by the time I take a shower it would have been around 12+ hours minimum, and even after showering the scent still lingers faintly.

Purple Stain smells aged. Not dusty or old, just matured. Like dark sweetness sitting inside wood for years. The fruit feels purple in the truest sense of the word. Dense. Shadowed. Almost floral at times. There’s something nocturnal about it. Cellar air, stained paper, resin, polished wood. Thick and smooth without becoming syrupy. I kept smelling my hand the entire night. Guilty pleasure for sure.

I was lucky enough to smell this fragrance while recently at Exsence! It was hands down my favourite fragrance at the EXPO. I cannot wait for the release. For me it is classy, masculine and sexy. It could shake up my top 5 all time frags.. Possibly even my top 3! As soon as I get my hands on a bottle, i will do a FULL and honest review.

its really unique and hard to describe even, 100% need sampling it smells like matte purple.. i really like it but at the same time don't have a strong urge to own it even with 40% off.. which makes me feel that maybe im just impressed by it more than loving the scent profile itself.. if that makes sense

A Korean version of Nasomatto Fantomas (one of my all-time favorite perfumes): instead of melon you get a burst of bubblegummy grape, and the gunpowder is replaced by fresh asphalt. Incredible performance, as is expected from an extrait. I love Purple Stain, but the price is WAY too high.

Such an incredibly addictive, unique and long lasting fragrance. Blends perfectly the sweet and the dark. Oud and grape. Say what you want about BTSO, but they do create some amazing hits, and Jordi Fernandez is, today, IMHO, the best perfumist in the world.

Intoxicating 🤤 I can’t get enough of this smell. I just want to smell like this all day every day. Works amazing with my chemistry. Longevity and sillage are crazy, but that’s what I expect from a perfume priced this much. Powerful and beautiful 😻

A Flirty slutty perfume saleswoman who is barely 18 recommended this fragrance to me. She says she practically bathes in it—and gets lots of compliments. I tried it.. and understand what kind of audience profile would wear this

Strange but interesting. Smells like some kind of grape candy. Super strong, developing into a mysterious scent. Very unique with a nuclear performance. If you want to try something new and make a difference, this is it.

So I bought the discovery set Purple Stain is from. The fragrance is the most mature out of all 4 on my skin. I agree it reminds me of red grapes on the opening but with this deep spice which really reminds me of Azzaro Wanted. IOW, that richness that all these modern frags have. That kind of sweet undertone. The oud is lightly sharp, but heavy wood. Im glad I bought the discovery set. 2 sprays only on my wrist and it stays close to my skin. Thats all I need. I sprayed it late evening and I could smell it through out the day at work. Evdn fist bumping a coworker and he said he could smell it. The deep style may be redundant since I bought CH Badboy Elixer, but that is more rich like chocolate. Purple Stain is unique, after 6 hrs that sweet accord is very clean, floral and spicy.

I was excited to try this one! To me this absolutely comes across as a complex and grown up concord grape juice that is dangerously close to a pez candy scent on the skin. I LOVE the boozy dark grape vibe, but I wish they dialed back the sweetness and powdery note which skews to cheap candy. I think the candy note is holding it back from being a truly winning rich and sexy fragrance. It does remind me a bit of Clues's With the Candlestick. The scent isn't identical by any means, but I think they have a similar vibe and have the same niche in my collection. To me With the Candlestick is better and easier to wear since it's not as sweet.

Reminds me of Cherry Punk by Room 1015 but dirtier, grimier... As if you were wearing Cherry Punk in a dark, overcrowded club, where you can feel the humidity radiating off other people’s sweaty bodies. Both scents have a saffron / patchouli mix which must be what my nose is picking up, this one leaning more masculine with the removal of the Cherry note. Might in the future consider purchasing this one when I run out of Cherry Punk.

A very pleasant scent. My boyfriend said he liked it!! We typically don't like the same fragrances, but I think that this one is really likeable due to the saffron, orange blossom, caramel, and labdanum (at least those are my fav notes in this one). The dry down honestly reminds me of how Hollister would smell in the early 2010's, but it isn't nauseating. I am curious if there is anyone who can pick up on the concrete note...

I have a 15ml from the brand for all of the Extreme Extraits. I like this one just fine, but it's less interesting to me than the other 3. Black Mango and Oud Candy are my favorites from the range. From the rip, I get spice with citrus, oud, and almost leather in the base. Lasts a long time on my skin, FWIW.

This one is fun. It smells like grape flavored popsicles and grape flavored fun dip powder. It's a very literal purple perfume. Nuclear in Sillage and longevity. Very oily when sprayed on skin. It's quirky unique and novel but only for one sample sniff.

A good and powerful fragrance 💪🏻 To me, it resembles hot red wine with spices 🍷. The scent is slightly dry, yet it feels warm—when I inhale, I get a sensation of heat in my nose. I see this fragrance more on men.