Odor 93

EN. Tuberose can not leave you indifferent it moves from the worship up to fainting or even hate. Odor 93 is an olfactory addiction, but not only, this fragrance becomes your obsession, an explosion of the senses, a flood of feelings. Here you won't find the top notes, as in most of the perfumes of Giuseppe Imprezzabile (Meo Fusciuni), he is not trying here to seduce you with some spectacular notes of heart, just to disappoint you then with the sandalwood and patchouli annoying mix. Odor 93 is very simple and at the same time is very ingenious: a bouquet of white flowers and resins - a male-female universe, a vortex in which the freshness of the morning narcissus and sweetness of tobacco are finding their way through the waves of tuberose and incense, all this is an irresistible desire to feel it again and again. IT. Tuberosa non può lasciarti indifferente: la adori fino a svenimento o la odi. Nell'Odor 93 una dipendenza olfattiva non è tutto, questo profumo diventa un'ossessione, una esplosione dei sensi, una marea di sentimenti. Qui non troverete note di testa, come nella maggior parte dei profumi di Giuseppe Imprezzabile (Meo Fusciuni), egli non sta cercando di sedurvi con una spettacolare nota del cuore, per poi deludere con immortali e sempre gli stessi sandalo e patchouli. L'Odor 93 è molto semplice e nello stesso tempo è molto geniale: un mazzo dei fiori bianchi e delle resine - un misto maschile-femminile, un vortice in cui la freschezza mattutina del narciso e la dolcezza del tabacco fanno strada tra le onde di tuberosa ed incenso, tutto questo è un irresistibile desiderio da annusare ad infinito.

It's initially....off-putting? It's a fragrance that appeals to social distancing! A blast of unrelenting woody medicinal oud and patchouli smacks you right in the face. There's only what I call "background tuberose" -- merely a faint slightly mentholated sweet "buzz" behind the melange of neon greens and damp tree bark. At this point in my first wear I actually posted a (now deleted :)) review (primarily to respond to the unnecessary Cross insult below -- Rouge's tuberoses are absolutely lovely. They are of the light where this is of the darkness; too different to compare). For that first wear it was a strong HATE and a large pass. I felt like I was suffocating in a medieval alchemist's basement workshop. But then! Oh hello tuberose!! As the fumes from the potions, tinctures and various dried herbs start to fade she blossoms and blooms until she does actually become the diva she always deserves to be. Clearly this tuberose is poisonous. She is something other than her usual seductive, almost tropical white sweetness. Here she is placed an altar; the smoke of previous offerings tinging her with menace and reverence. You absolutely need to give it half an hour, but after that yes, this IS a must try for tuberose lovers. I'll forgive your needless Rouge insult, Monsieur Français, in my gratitutde that your timely review brought this beauty to my attention. Bless you <3

Out of sheer curiosity, I got my hands on two samples of Meo Fusciuni, Odor 93 and Viole Nere. Immediately, the vision behind Giuseppe Imprezzabile's compositional philosophy became clear to me. There's a lived elegance, an approach that, without falling into the safe confines of tradition, tells thoughts and life with a transversal lexicon, tinged with the nostalgic and crumpled vein of a traveling poet. Odor 93, which primarily references the band Current 93 and indirectly the controversial figure of Aleister Crowley, reminded me of their song "Soft Black Stars," where they speak of a world, of the mind, without the constraint of letters and written words—a world made of senses, images, and experiences inconceivably free. Odor 93 narrates an existence or perhaps a moment of existence where completeness and oblivion are equidistant, just like matter and spirit. There's a clear tension between its notes, and this tension disrupts and overturns perspectives on the notes themselves. Tuberose loses its carnality and becomes a vestal walking on the dark earth of a cold and austere Patchouli. Spices, measured with extreme grace, and Tobacco tell a tale of independent femininity or a masculinity unafraid to lose its identity to present itself to the world as a new being. This is a perfume for a Mage.

A year ago my brother brought me two bouquets of tuberose. That was how I embarked on this beautiful and delirious journey of finding my tuberose. It has been a beautiful path, crossed by the image of a Christ with his feet covered in the oil of the flower. Perhaps it is always about covering the stench of death, about being able to live without something always smelling strange, without endings or closures. And yet, in these substitute and morbid games, meaning always prevails over the signifier. That is what Odor 93 offers: a new scent of death. The opening, elegantly animalic and dark, marks the beginning of the path through the forest. Faster than expected, the tuberose takes center stage, culminating in the encounter with the grave. There, upon the stone and the name, lies a beautiful tuberose stem, casting a glimmer of light into the darkness of the woods. Odor 93 is a perfume that celebrates life as a path toward death. Like great works of art, it helps us to die, or, what is the same, to live better. A magnificent exploration of the dark tuberose lineage, in which the flower asserts its full power without ever becoming too obvious. Something truly special.

Big edit: It is quite phenomenal how scents grow on us sometimes. During my first week with this fragrance, I felt utter hatred of the bottled scent, even though my previous maxaroma decant was spectacular. To my knowledge, the fragrances have increased in concentration: EDP to Parfum. I still feel that this maneuver by the creator allowed for greater longevity but a detriment to its balance of notes and subsequently to the overall scent. The now up to date parfum scent is now a richer and fuller bodied version of the EDP decant that I still have at hand. Creamy waxy tuberose under a light mentholic veil. I imagine it being lovely for spring seasons but I don’t see any versatility in this fragrance. I am speaking for myself, mind you. The entire line has a very old dark antique dna to it, and this is no exception to that statement. Do not blind buy. Heed our warnings! 7.5/10. A like, but far from a love.