Maggie the Cat is Alive! I’m Alive!

Some of these reviews border on the absurd. If you’re wearing Marc Jacobs Daisy and Miss Dior on the daily, perhaps I’m not surprised, yet it does generate an eye roll when you call this pissy. Litter box where? This is a soft fuzzy peach violet with a musk and patchouli. If anything this is powdery and gauzy. This isn’t weird or strange. This is very straightforward and covertly glamorous. When I got a sample I swear I was expecting something that might have made me gag. And when I put it on and smelled sweet fuzzy and crackling peach and then the violet so powdery, damn I went and bought it immediately. And I was going back and forth between this and Carnival of Souls. Tho I still may get that, that one is actually strange, in a good way. For warm bulb becoming so popular when that smells like actual dust in your basement ( at the start of a horror movie). You would think this fragrance would be way more hyped. It deserves it. So far everything Marissa has done that I’ve smelled is good.

I’m a huge Elizabeth Taylor fan. “Cat” is among my favorite films. This perfume was made for me. And it’s everything I hoped for. I’ve been on a peach lick lately, and this is a lovely peach. Here, the note smells like skin. When my boyfriend I first started dating, he told me that I naturally smell like peaches. This peach mixed with the ambrette brings a skin, human quality to this fragrance. Then you have the oak moss and violet which was a popular combination in vintage perfumes; this of course lends a 1950s vibe. However, it’s very earthy. Very fitting for a woman Rock Hudson called an “Earth Mother”. Elizabeth loved perfume, from Rochas Femme to Jungle Gardenia and Bal a Versailles to her own fragrances. I think Elizabeth would love this perfume and it embodies her well. Fun champagne, sensual, earthy, vintage but timeless.

Bright gold peach and sparkling champagne dissolve into a beautiful blend of violets, sunlight, and pure feline sensuality. The drydown is magical. Like a Tennessee Williams heroine, it both wilts and blooms in the heat, growing more sensual and languid over a long, hot day. A notice-me yowl, a testing scratch, a curled-up purr. Intimate and long-lasting (I mean, it’s one you want to get *close* to). Warm and woody on skin for 8+ hours; sweet and floral on clothes/hair well into the next day. This one is special: nuanced, sharp, and still gorgeously blushingly sincere. How do you craft an arch-feminine throwback that tells a story without buckling under the weight of its own references? Marissa Zappas pulled it off!

on me, at least, there is no pee, there is no cat litter, and there is no cat spray. it's lovely soapy and powdery, and it has that beautiful animalic undertone that i have discovered that i love so much! sample this if it interests you, don't let the reviews deter you. if you like marlou's stuff, chances are you'll probably like this (it's like a tiny bit more toned down than their stuff, but in terms of the animalic vibe, the similarity is there). signature scent worthy if you're bold and cool enough i think it is, however, very strong. so if you get headaches easily i'd probably give it a miss. :3

clean and dirty at the same time, which is so interesting. a little soapy, but kind of in a dried up bar of soap kinda way, the animalic notes give it a 'lived in' quality. the champagne note is a little..yeasty? in the fizzy, living sense. someone partied too hard in a fur coat and then left it in the back of their closet for years. i love orris, i love sandalwood, i've never been big on musks or animalics, but this is quirky in a way that i really enjoy. on paper, this was unpleasant, but on my skin it developed really nicely, i do not get 'piss' at all, i'm glad i gave it another shot.