Candour

Well, I agree - it is very interesting perfume. And that is what I like about it. Wearing it you feel special. I believe not everyone would like it, but I love it a lot! So, never buy this perfume blind, it is the one you must try first!

Tried this fragrance again recently, after a 3-year break and I really hate it - there is a horrible note of boiled cabbage about it, which for me, makes it a scrubber. My earlier review is below and I would not be so complimentary now. By the way, I love Secretions Magnifique, make of that what you will. 2012 review: Sadly, this perfume and I do not get along - it is way too green for me, and green in a cabbagey way, not a peapod, galbanum, fig sort of way. It does have an odd quality of effervescing off the skin, but for all the notes listed, I can't pick anything out and it stays the same on me for hour after hour without ever getting to the milky, vanilla-y, sandalwood drydown I was hoping for. Hope others have better luck.

Unfortunately, it was a blind buy. Don't repeat my mistakes. This perfume is a nightmare for me. The opening was very bright with a lily of the valley scent and a toothpaste accord. The entire bouquet reminded me of a toilet freshener that someone sprayed after the "big deal." I didn't detect any milk or other green notes in this composition, and I felt a nauseous sensation when trying to wear it. The longevity of the perfume is phenomenal. I had to wash my coat after spraying it. Forgive me, fragrance connoisseurs, but I would be happy to find a new owner for this scent.

I remember that i have reviewed this fragrance before & i don't know where it is! This is "Secretion Magnifique" taken to minimal and adding more green metallic effect. In short, saliva on a metal spoon early morning cooper water and sitting in a wetty backyard. Quite unpleasant, and superbly unbalanced. When it calms down (after 10 minutes) the metallic goes light, the saliva decreased, and the green rises, but remains unpleasant and disturbing. Edit (5th Jan 2020) After 3+ years, this smell like a rotten milk! i can't say it has that sweaty armpit somehow but i do get a rotten milk and something like unwashed skin for few days of someone who had sweat days then the sweat gone dry and didn't have a shower since then. It doesn't smell like "Secretion Magnifique" as i mentioned 3+ years ago but it has something awful and quite disturbing to it. It's not the kind of blends that unconsciously you would want to keep smelling your arm although it's weird but the kind of blends that "Oh no, i don't want to smell that" horror thoughts that comes up just fracture of milliseconds of thinking of wanting to sniff it again! As i said, it's rotten milk, cloying sweet, green bamboo, & metallic. The colder it goes the less rotten milk, and the metallic sweet floral rises which makes it similar disturbing as the first top note.

Applies astringent musk. Dry and caustic rubber eraser. Milky sour lactonic tang. Literally hurts to smell. Similarly niche/challenging as Etat Libre d'Orange “Secretions Magnifiques” - but, that is warm/cozy, while this smells like a condom. Not green, maybe bitter sap. One of the most off-putting I’ve ever experienced...only rivaled by Nasomatto’s “Black Afgano.” Strong and long lasting; ironic considering its difficulty. Dry down becomes mostly warm sandalwood with lingering tang of sour milk.

Candour is fantastic, outrageous and absolutely unique. It's a very interesting olfactory experience, where horrid interlaces with sublime as the scents wears on towards the drydown. The first splash of raw, curdling milkiness, so uncannily redolent of fresh milk powder, is seriously disturbing. It smells simultaneously vegetal and animalic, like being forced to give birth in the middle of a tropical jungle. It's revolting and stomach-churning, but not necessarily in a disgusting kind of way, if that makes any sense. This gradually gives way to a more palatable palm-y greenness in the heart, with strong traces of that vegetal milkiness simmering below the surface. There's still nothing conventional or pleasing about the scent at this point, but it's wearable now, and absolutely captivating to my nose. I'm a big fan of Amaranthine though - I have a penchant for steamy, musky-vegetal, tropical jungle-style aromas. There's an element in the scent that smells like something citrusy, providing a vital semi-fresh counterpoint to the curdling, leafy muskiness. The milk powder element is always present, though it's never as disturbingly full-on as on the opening. I would prefer it to be even more toned down, with the humid green notes made more intense instead, but I think the scent is pretty brilliant anyway. It calms down to a pleasant, fluffy, yoghurt-y cardamon on the drydown. It's too eccentric for most social occasions; even so I'm beginning to entertain the idea of maybe getting a bottle as there are times I really crave the steamy green milkiness of this somewhat repulsive yet utterly fascinating creation. Plus I find it wears really well in my hot and humid subtropical weather.

Chromatic scale: Unripe green, green, white, deep white, fluo yellow undertones, opaque notes. Immaginary Accords: unsweetened milky-green fig, grass, stone-cold milk, fizzy ginger, orris, galbanum, sour-ish unripe citruses, man-machine, white velvet, stylized flowers. Tags: fresh, creamy, yogurt, green, bizarre, WTF, illusion / mirage, future, mutant-pop, mainstream, twisted. Modern Art. Longevity: Stellar. Projection: Above average. Rating: 7/10

This fragrance is Really Interesting. It's the Kombucha Girl reaction of perfume. In the space of two hours, I went from wretched horror to plonking down upwards of $200 for a bottle because who knew if I'd ever find it again (it being super-niche). I rarely wear it out of the house, and usually only spray it when I want to experience the ride. Crazy? Yes. But then a lot of art is crazy.

It is a very interesting perfume. For me it started aswell as Lulu said, with a very brusque strange note (I'd say cucumbery mixed with cabbagy) and I hated it, but in difference with Lulu, it changed in about two hours, and it was really beautifull, soft milky and very discretly woody. It lasted quite long and stayed all the next 6-8 hours in the same 2nd note.

A contemporary fragrance very nice on my skin, springtime or summer but some years for understand it. Far from the sweet: vanilla-spicy-woody-amber- bomb perfume that invaded the market. Not for all.

Wretched concoction of heavy cream and sour green notes. I scrubbed after one hour to get rid off this bilge. It's as bad a Secretions M.

Scent: 9/10 Quality: 9/10 Originality: 8/10 Sillage: 7/10 Projection: 6/10 Longevity: 7/10 Price VS Size: 7/10