Dawn Whispers

ichor spills from my maw, custard smeared across my lips. i can sense the sweat beading at my brow and the shaking of my palms seem incessant. was this the universe's way of punishing me for my sin? i am unsure of what this sin may be. maybe it is the delectation that comes from such a horrible act of violence, or maybe it is an act of gluttony that causes my own body to collapse on itself. regardless, i am reprimanded. regret does not wash away my impurities, no matter how much i repent. this scent feels so strangely intimate. it opens in a grotesque manner, the metallic notes being the most noticeable before it settles into a lactonic essence. a perfect macabre scent that emulates the sensation of losing your tooth in a dessert. while it may seem harsh to others, it definitely dries down into a more mellow aroma that still encapsulates that original, provocative nature that it originally presents itself as. if anything, you could always layer on another vanilla scent to further mummify the metallic quality, allowing for the powdery sweetness to take priority. however, it is amazing on its own. this perfume is a wonderful use of ozonic, metallic, lactonic, and powdery notes that creates a beautifully disturbing accord. i am so proud to have this in my collection and it will continue to be a staple in my everyday wear.

I suppose I should take the artist at his or her word when they say this is a futuristic fragrance. Perhaps a sense of déjà vu or an experience of meeting your higher self; an alternative version of yourself in a previous life. I don't think I would have gotten there if it wasn't mentioned before. For those of you who are experienced independent fragrance enthusiasts, this very much reminds me of BARUTI Oh My DEER! It's either that one or hot cotton. BARUTI has a very distinct musk that is in this fragrance as well. Cannot be mistaken. It is very polarizing, but I find it fascinating. It's not going to be something that will garner compliments, but it is certain to start a conversation! DAWN WHISPERS is the most avant garde in the debut collection for sure. Futuristic is the only genre that I believe fits, if it had to go anywhere at all. It's very different. Very cold, metallic, borderline psychotic.

This is what blood must smell like to vampires. Undoubtedly metallic but also slightly sweet. And above all, delicious. I almost detect something like white cake or vanilla, but it’s as if I’m smelling the remnants of some other sweet fragrance that has faded for several hours. I keep doubling back to smell it because my brain gets confused. Do I like this or hate this? Who does this remind me of (it’s on the tip of my tongue)? What did this smell like again? I’ve made peace with liking - perhaps loving - this scent, but I don’t see myself wearing it everywhere. It’s a little too out-there for the office, but I found that it stops projecting around 2ish hours and stays on the skin the entire day (so I can have it all to myself). There are few fragrances out there that smell both nostalgic and futuristic - this is certainly one of them.

This is what the milk that is fed to Alien babies smells like. It is beautiful and sinister at the same time. It is subtle but also pervasive. When you wear Dawn Whispers it surrounds you with tendrils of blood tinged metallic musk that is also somehow sweet, a little bit floral, and vanillic. For me, this is the absolute pinnacle of niche perfume. I don’t know if I’m remembering correctly, and it actually smells like Dent de Lait, but the concept I think is very similar. That’s the first perfume I thought of when smelling this, but honestly Dawn Whispers is unique. This is one I will wear only for myself but for the right person this could be an unforgettable signature. In a world of designer fragrances that all smell alike, the person wearing this will stand out. Dawn Whispers has pretty intense sillage and decent longevity.

I just received a sample in the mail, and immediately poured almost half of the sample on my skin... Wow! It immediately started tricking my senses: one moment a milky heaven, with a similar milkiness as in Blanche Bete. The other moment a slight sweet sharpness from the musk and amber with some fruitiness that I have no idea where it comes from. It is weird, but the best way possible. Creamier on the skin, more ozonic on fabric. The sillage and strength seem to be somewhere between moderate and large. fragrance reviews on Youtube every week @dianasfragrancecloset

It is a strange fragrance. Opens up with metallic and peppery accord and transforms in musky and ambery dry down. Ozonic notes adds the airy feeling to all of this. I don't agree with comments about blood and all this scary things. I agree that this fragrance is not safe for blind buy. But it still a beautiful work and is a perfumery. Truly niche and interesting scent. For me it worth a full bottle

Milky, musty, intimate, sensual, alien. LOVE. Indoors on a rainy tepid day dreaming of the outside. Nostalgic, dreamy and almost a little vanilla. Smells sexy but maybe that's just me. It dries bloodier and a little more disconcerting.

As a recovering alcoholic, I must say this is the (next) best thing to being drunk. I thought I needed oak-cask smells like Baraonda, but this thing gets you that "flying in outer space" feeling I've been looking for.

i love this fragrance, it’s so unique and it makes me feel like a vampire lady. to me it smells like biting the inside of your mouth while having vanilla cake.

Feels like I woke up in Sweden on the mountainside and opened my cabin window every time i smell this

Abstract, clean , fresh , very unique and modern

a bloody bite of vanilla cake.

“ The bag wasn’t even full, not even half full, when he zipped it up, because his mother was coming to get him and he didn’t need anything else, and all at once the smile broke out of him like a sunrise. [...] [...] paying no attention whatsoever to his father who was anxiously tidying away the beer cans and adjusting the carpets and trying to give the false sense of a home that was happy, and clean, and safe. [...] Two knocks. Tap-tap. [...] ‘I’ll get it,’ he cried aloud, because this was his moment and he didn’t want to share it with his father. ‘I’ll get it, I’ll get it, don’t worry-’ And he went to the door and pulled aside the chain, and turned the handle to open it wide. And stood there, staring up at the thing that was not his mother. Its face was wide, and white, and clownish, as if drawn in chalk. [...] He felt his father come up behind him, placing a restraining hand on his shoulder, and say aloud, calmly, ‘You’re late. You said ten-thirty and it’s closer to eleven.’ The thing that was not his mother did not move. Its expression did not change. It did not stop staring down at him. And yet his father continued, as if to an inaudible reply, ‘Well, he’ll be glad to see the back of me, I’m sure - and I’ll have a lot less trouble on my hands as well.’ [...] And as he looked up into that monstrous, chalky, grinning face, he began to quiver and shake and cry, turning back, burying himself into his father’s stomach, sobbing, ‘No. No. Don’t let her take me. Don’t let her take me.’ [...] ‘Don’t be ridiculous, boy. She’s going to look after you. What are you crying for?’ And he shook his head and cried and shivered, clinging to his father’s reassuring sweaty shirt, refusing to look back at the thing that was not his mother, begging him not to force him to go with it, until finally, his father said, apologetically, ‘Well, if he really doesn’t want to go...I suppose we can’t force him.’ (I Am In Eskew, Ep. 4, “Culpability”) Which is a winded way to say: This feels oddly familiar but there’s something odd about it in an almost threatening way. The coldness of the metallic accord comes through time and time again and undermines the warmth of the milk and amber. Almost as if the you only get a glimmer of reality, before it’s shrouded in falsely comforting warmth again. A confusing scent for sure.

One of the strangest in my collection. Gently sweet lactonics with vanilla and the most chilling almost sour metallic aldehyde. The two things smell so wrong together that it creates this whole new experience. Something about the combination almost reminds me of lily of the valley, but like a gory version. As it dries down the aldehydes get a lot more rusty/ferrous smelling making it kind of badass. This fragrance makes me visualize handmade production of a bruise-colored dreary dewy sunrise. It has the emotional elements of a sunrise but the rawness of handmade art. Some may find this one hard to wear, which i agree. Though I feel like a good time to wear this would be to go see a horror movie, haunted house or to celebrate Halloween in. This fragrance has total scream queen vibe. The almost bloody quality of the aldehydes put me on edge while the vanilla cream keeps me intrigued. I wore this to go see Obsession in theater and I must say I feel like it definitely enhanced my experience. Its good to wear for specific occasions, and a nice strange scent to have in a collection. Would i buy a full bottle of this, well no. Very cool though

This fragrance is very interesting. The initial scent is very sharp and metallic. As it started to settle, it literally smelled like a sheet of metal soaked in milk. On the dry down it smelled woody, milky, amber-y, and metallic. It’s a very strange mixture of smells and it’s almost off-putting, while somehow being comforting. At many points it smelled exactly as if you were holding a handful of pennies outside on a hot day. Strange as hell, but I like it. Would I buy full bottle? Probably not. But will I enjoy the sample from time to time? Yes. Edit- After a couple more wears, I ended up scrubbing it off lol. It’s just too much. I like metallic scents, but paired with milk it just smells rancid after awhile.

Not for everybody. But I like it. It smells like what I imagine blood smells like to vampires. Sharp and metallic , almost cold. Then evolving into something sweet, milky, and lactonic. If the smells of metal turn you off, it's not for you. Funnily enough, I bought this for myself and my roommate. And we both love it while our partners dislike it. It's also hospital like in a comforting way.

smells like the taste of blood at first —metallic and mineral. floral and powdery after a while. definitely has an airy ozonic quality to it, which registers as lonely and melancholic in a ghost-like way to me. interesting in a wtf way, will enjoy my sample & then forget about her because l’entropiste prices are just too crazy to want to hold onto a smell as bizarrely specific as this one

I am still making up my mind about this one... It's cold and metallic yet soft and lactonic. Very interesting, and I enjoy such scents in general. Although, this one is definitely not my favorite from L'Entropiste, but it's a great scent nonetheless.

This is by far the strangest fragrance from L'Entropiste, as well as the most polarizing one. I have to admit I didn't like Dawn Whispers at all when I tried it on paper, but it was better on skin and I do find the deep dry down quite enjoyable. This opens up with a wall of metallic notes, so cold and vivid but also slightly dirty, the two mental associations I made were that it smelled like the taste of a coin if you licked it, and also bad body odor. The body odor smell isn't long lived, it's only a short flash that's noticeable immediately after spraying. The metallic notes are overbearingly present during the opening, but they're nothing like a gunpowder note (think of BeauFort's Tonnerre and Pyroclasm or Toskovat's Inexcusable Evil) or mineralic at all, this is something completely different. I find the opening pungent and slightly unpalatable but not completely unwearable. As it dries this metallic note subsides very heavily and a creamy, vanillic smell starts coming through, it reminds me of Tom Ford's Eau d'Ombré Leather's vanilla note in that it's a lighter and brighter vanilla, more pale yellow than a deeper amber color. For a brief "transitional" period the metallic note becomes a smokey incense very briefly before fully disappearing and leaving only the vanilla behind. There's parts of this fragrance that appear in other fragrances from the line, specifically this metallic note reappearing in Ensang Noir in a tremendously lower dosage, as well as Jodhpur 6AM having a similar creamy sweetness to it, although much less vanillic. The way this fragrance develops is very interesting, but ultimately the opening is too unpalatable for me and it takes a few hours before it becomes likeable.

Very metallic but not in the blood sense, it's an industrial smell. Imagine your dad who works as a welder and he goes out to get milk, like he always does, but he never comes back. The milk part is important since all i could smell after 10 minutes was milk and metal. It's also surprisingly nostalgic for some reason. Once it dries down it's actually pleasant and slightly sweet. It does NOT retain the weirdness at all.