Malaise of the 1970's

I got this in a sample set from ELdO. The opening is very vivid and quite masculin with pepper and citrus. Than comes the prune, giving this perfume a lovely fruity layer. It's a nice fruityness, not too sweet and this fruityness mixes with the patchouli and amber to create a nice almost chique effect, although the patch might be a little bit too dirty to be considered chique. A little incense comes through as well, giving this fragrance a slight "hippie vibe". The scent is nice, but I really see no connection to the name. Maybe it's in the patchouli? I expected something far more edgy, far more uncomfortable. But, as a positive note, now it's a very very wearable scent. With rather poor longevity and projection tbh. This name is at least a little bit better fitting than The Sex Pistols. Those guys did not deserve the fact that such a tame perfume wore their name.

If you like Karma from Lush, this is for you. It got the same citrusy incense vibe ! I love it and got it at half price in Germany !

So I have Sex Pistols on one hand and this on the other and I swear they are very similar but not the same. This one is stronger, with more citrus, plum and ambrette. Sex Pistols has more pepper and more leather and is overall weaker. Don't get me wrong, they are 90% the same, but this was definitely re-tooled and "Malaise" is better, deeper, more well rounded. I have no idea why I like this. It definitely does remind me of someone's living room in the 1970s, with a shag carpet, naugahyde sofa, and orange wallpaper - maybe a patchouli incense stick burning away in one corner. I suppose it's a citrus-amber scent with musk, patchouli and leather. So all over the place. This one is sweeter than Sex Pistols and more comforting somehow. Why? No idea. I usually hate this kind of thing, but I can't stop smelling my wrist and thinking about psychedelic carpets. Weird. I was going to sell it but I can't bring myself to now. ps. I also have Karma and this is nothing like it. They're both orange, but that one is stronger on the orange and incense. This one is... more laid back? Pepperier? It definitely does not give the same happiness hit, but it does give a mellow one.

Blind bought just because I was born 1970 (I know... foolish cling!). Often pleased to find citrus-peppery accords and this is the case; for my nose this citrus being very rounded, tamed, either by the heliotrope – my nose fishes-it-out anywhere, even when used sparingly, as I don’t like it! – or by the plum? The leather note is there and helps a lot to give it some twist in the dry down. Overall not a bad fragrance for sure. If we call it a citrus it has some lasting quality, but if we call it a leather it lacks a bit of vertebrae... unless you were born 1970 maybe better bet money elsewhere 😉

Questo profumo è molto strano; in effetti mi fa pensare agli anni 70,un periodo fin troppo semplice, senza fronzoli e molto essenziale. Quello che sento è odore pungente di limone,incenso grigio, sangue, una strana umidità come se piovesse noiosamente. La sensazione che mi dà è di desolazione,un senso di noia autunnale,quando non c'era niente di bello ne di colorato,in attesa di un mese piu bello e intenso come dicembre. Negli anni 70 ricordo piu o meno questo.