Sacred Animal

Wow, just wow! Something otherwordly altogether. This is what a perfect alien would smell like. Absolutely unique, enticing, mysterious, suggestive but beyond anything and everything. One of my absolute favourite from the Milan Exsense Perfume expo.

The other reviews mentioning feces almost scared me off, but the notes sounded nice and smelled nice on the paper, so I got a little skin sample. For me, this was just a yummy powdery floral chocolate with a backing of musk. It is so literally the notes listed; it wasn't very complex for me. The cognac was only for the first few sniffs. I smelled rose a lot more than I expected! It showed up on my skin too feminine for me to wear out and about. I sniffed and sniffed trying to see if I detected any nastiness and other than the animalic light musk note (which isn't nasty to me), I couldn't smell anything bad! I work in an industry with a lot of bad smells, and this did not remind me of any of them. I ended up imagining a femme chocolatier who wears a rosy fragrance and goes home in a white fur coat. Very much a fall/winter fragrance to me, it was cozy and comforting. Ultimately, I liked it a lot but I would rather smell this on someone else. This one might be dependant on skin chemistry (judging by the other reviews) so it's probably not a safe blind buy.

This perfume smells like you spilled melted chocolate, with chocolate liquor and a chocolate scented melted candle wax on your cat. I kind of respect the effort but the execution doesn't work. It just is a hot mess. I keep seeing in my minds eye this poor cat covered in this chocolatey mess. I can kind of see where they wanted to go but no, just doesn't work. The dry down of this is the plastic smell if cheap petroleum candle wax. The far dry down is a waxy animalic civet. If you want a beautiful warm animalic fragrance, go for Zoologist Civet instead. A rare swing and a miss from a brand I really like. If you want a beautiful unisex leather from this brand go with Black leather. It is excellent my husband wears it one of my favorites in his collection.

I don’t believe in doing reviews based only on first impressions but I pray I never have to smell this again. My first thought was, “humid halitosis mouth full of cavities and decay” but then it quickly pivoted to “old dry human feces”. It literally smells like the prank spray Liquid Ass. I could not scrub this intergluteal cleft juice off quickly enough. Interestingly, the spot where it was applied still has a bit remaining that actually smells quite pretty, like fresh-cut dahlia stems. What a weird ass perfume.

This literally has an underlying scent of human excrement. Not even flower indoles. Despite all the other notes, many of which I love, this is just too offensive to wear. It actually grosses me out.

Not super animalic, but it’s a mess of a fragrance.

I absolutely adore this fragrance. It’s easily one of my top picks when it comes to chocolate‐focused perfumes. The scent instantly reminds me of my cat’s fur—comforting, warm, and wonderfully familiar. I’m genuinely surprised by the number of negative reviews, though I suppose it’s true that fragrance is deeply personal. I feel the same way about anything heavy in white florals or citrus. Still, I have no idea where people are getting “dry human faeces” from—where would one even encounter that smell in daily life? If you enjoy rich notes of cacao, dark chocolate, vanilla, a touch of patchouli and cognac, all lightly framed by soft florals and resting on a base of dry moss, suede, and the faintest hint of nuttiness—this is absolutely worth trying.

This is the worst fragrance I have smelled out of a journey of over 200+ fragrances. The individual notes are detectable and this brand has magically managed to create a diarrhea accord out of chocolate and florals. I try not to be super dramatic with reviews but this stuff turned my stomach. It's unintentionally horrific.