Parasite

There aren’t any reviews. I only have have a small sample of Parasite, but it brings scenes from the film flooding back to memory. It’s quite green and watery, a little sweet. It starts out with a sunny burst of green—sweet and sparkling. And then that passes quickly, and I get water and perhaps a wave of something like bug spray. And then much more water with fresh floral, but also a dankness, which is the beginning of the “sub-basement” note that becomes predominant. After five to ten minutes, I get another fresh burst that’s almost like cucumbers, but the dank sub-basement smell has settled in, and it’s there to stay. It’s not clean, it’s not dirty—but it’s a permeating mustiness with just a little sharpness to it. And it continues in this watery green musty sub-basement way. Parasite is one of my favorite films, and this perfume is an amazing inspired creation. I will save some of this sample to watch the film. I think this might be somewhat challenging to wear on a daily basis, but this scent is beautiful and addictive—in the way that gasoline fumes and new mown grass are together. Really quite something. I would recommend this to fans of the film and fans of amazing artistry in perfumery.

This is the type of fragrance that makes examining perfume as an art-form fun. It will smell like 30 different things to 30 different people. Each time I (one person... that I know of) smell this on blotter I get something different. The first time I smelled it I got synthetic grape and hot steam/nintendo air aldehydes. At deeper whiff, some sort of metallic iodine-y water-y thing emerges, and the patchouli tinges the whole concoction green. Compare this to the same sort of blood-iodine thing going on in Inexcusable Evil from Toskovat and this what you get here is *Excusable Evil.* There is something sinister in here, but it's also kind of like *hmm kewl relatable.* It feels futuristic and industrial and also vintage and chypre-y at the same time. It's like if you the iodine blood from Inexcusable Evil, mixed it with the stale but raunchy dirty panty thing of Agent Provocateur, and placed in on a block of asphalt where flowers bloom on a grassy meadow in the distance... that is Parasite.

At first spray the florals & aldehides gave me sexy funeral vibes. Then it becomes a little more industrial--like hot metallic air. I'm getting server room on an alien spaceship. This scent sent me down a 30 minute google rabbithole trying to recover this video from tumblr (which I now think may have completely imagined?) of a woman in a latex xenomorph costume dancing on a stripper pole. It's sexy, it's alien, it's a little camp. I wore it on a hot summer day, and as the day wore on (& I got sweatier), this started to become first greener and then sweeter and more white/green floral--coming back around to the funeral parlor vibes. The sweetness is almost a little leathery to me, in a preserved flesh kind of way? But it's more metallic blood than meat. This was surprisingly wearable in the heat and in the daytime, though I think it'd also make a good "going out" scent. I'm kind of obsessed, and can't wait to see how it displays in winter.

Parasite holds incredible tensions within a muted, dreary exterior. Yes, it is watery and green, but it also contains borderline sickening musty and unsettling chemical tones. It evolves but never settles into a conventional set of notes. It lingers on the wearer, coloring (cursing?) them. You’ll wonder: Do others notice, or does this pass as a freshie? This is an emotional narrative statement to experience, the scent conveys the envy, anxiety and resigned misery of the events of Parasite (as well as the staid wit of its presentation by Bong Joon Ho). It’s a sophisticated, subversively offputting scent you might put on to own that you’re having a bad day. Or it might appeal to those who feel so robust they can afford to smell like a sewage-flooded basement mixed with a modern mansion’s empty chrome kitchen. Truly challenging and brave, without raising its voice.

this is one of the most realistic/natural smelling perfumes ive smelled so far. the opening is very damp basement like, but quickly transforms into a beautiful, sun-warmed meadow in the middle of a forest scent. the aldehydes and grass notes in this are stunning. im in love. this is the perfect summer scent. its SO realistic. i can smell the trees, the pinecones, its cold and warm at the same time, like a forest the day after it rained heavily, now basked in the sun on a sweltering summer day. so beautiful. so nostalgic. the reference to the movie can only be perceived in the few opening seconds of this. i think im going to buy a full bottle of this.