Sideshow

A perfume that makes me lol in incredulous, slightly appalled, delight every time I wear it. Downright offensive hyrax-and-leather that makes close relative Dzing!'s animalics seem sedate smashes right into strawberry (per the notes apple) jelly beans, caramel and pink candyfloss. I'm fairly sure I smell a bit gross to others when I wear this, but it has the same fruit+animalic that I love in things like Nudiflorum and Luxe Calme Volupte, and I can't stop applying squirts from my sample. As it dries down, it begins to meld with skin but the focus continues to swing between fading animalics and fruity jelly beans. Extremely powerful - one spray from my sample is enough to blast out animalic fruit candy for ages. It's a fun and reckless scent, a potential FB for me.

This smells like bubblegum and leather. I find it edgy and different. It really does evoke fun fairs, candy floss and toffee apples. Yes it is on the sweet side, but the leather balances it out. This was the first ‘niche’ perfume I bought as I adored the sample at first sniff. It may not be for the masses, it’s not a ‘safe’ floral perfume (which I personally find dull. They’re two a penny) Side note: it smells great layered with Ariana Grande’s Cloud (or the similar but pricey beloved Baccarat rouge. The two combined smells like a day at the seaside. Salty sea air, ice creams, toffee apples...takes me back to childhood carefree summers...sigh

Sexiness in a bottle. In the opening, it smells unapologetically artificial with notes of bubblegum and cotton candy. Then, musky leather makes an appearance, and this tension between notes that have nothing in common becomes surprisingly captivating and meaningful. Innocent yet dangerous. Not a safe blind buy. On the feminine side of unisex. Potent. Two sprays are more than enough.

All of Gri Gri perfumes are inspired by some tattoo technique. Sideshow is based on the ‘old-shool’ anchors and mermaids, romantic, colorful and a bit kitch. Opens with a very lighthearted bubble gum accord but surprisingly proceeds to a very animalic and sensual leather made with one of the few material of trully animalic origin: hyraceum.

it is a weird combination of sweet and animalistic notes, not very nice. not a safe blind buy