Mercury [80Hg]

Delivered by the same guy who gave birth to Secretion Magnifique and several other odd-balls, all I can say during my first testing of Mercury is... WTH??? This is weird. I don't know yet if good-weird or bad-weird but definitely weird. It is like some of the oddest Comme Des Garçons having a gangbang with a bunch of Humiecki & Graef while Sec Mag is video-taping the whole scene. There's a remarkable *cold metal* vibe going on together with the most sparkling aldehydes/citrus combo in perfume history. A mandarin hologram enhances the overall fresh vibe and brings it to unseen levels while aldehydes provide a transparency that goes beyond olfaction to cross the border of other senses such as sight. In this context I would say Mercury feels almost dazzling. I've to say though, that while definitely feeling clean and cold, the fragrance never fall into aseptic / disinfectant / hospital territories. Au contraire, it feels incredibly alive and pulsating. I believe in this context, Antoine Lie perfectly achieved to translate into a fragrance the true essence of such an enigmatic and fascinating metal such as Mercury. The fragrance morphes then into a smooth woody-creamy-sandalwood with greenish-metallic facets. Chromatic scale: Lime Green, Fluo Yellow, Tangerine, Fluo Orange, Fluo Green, Silver, White, Fluo Green. I'm not sure what to do with this yet, honestly, but there's one thing I can say with quite some confidence: Mercury and Sulphur are by all means two polar opposites. Here are a few more considerations: - It's funny. - It's weird. - It surely pushes the boundaries of perfumery. - It will make perfume purists recoil in horror. Rating: 7.5/10 (because it's so daring).

Mercury is for me, the perfect summer antidote. It's a cool, clean, bracing number, but is also so extremely weird that it gives me my avant garde fix at the same time, in a scent that revels in the warm weather. It opens with the biggest smash in the face aldehyde/citrus combo you can imagine, but it's so metallic that I can only think of one or two others in the ball park (Blood Concepts - AB & ELDO Secretions Magnifique - also by Antoine Lie). That is backed up by a flower bed apparently planted by a new age cyborg in metal shavings, from which have bloomed geranium and violet, but in name only. To look at them correctly, you need some serious virtual reality goggles. Add to all that a base of electronic cedar and a vivid hologram of a sandalwood tree and you have one bizarre experience. Lie has nailed the idea of presenting an amorphous, shimmering metal like mercury in a scent here. I must stress that I also find it totally wearable nonetheless and it's performance is unquestionable. I put it on this morning at 10am and I've been getting whiffs of it all day (it's almost 5pm now). Trust me, if you're a perfume purist, you might like to keep on walking. If you like things that push the boundaries of perfumery however, look no further!

disturbante ed eccentrico, per me è il più bello dei profumi di questa linea ultrachimica, almeno nei nomi. il mercurio, per gli addetti ai lavori ma non solo, è un elemento sorprendente, in primis per il suo aspetto (metallo liquido e lucente), ma anche per la sua tossicità e le sue innumerevoli applicazioni, specie nelle sue forme ossidate. qui è solo "ispirazione", volta alla realizzazione di un accordo stranissimo, in cui aldeidi, agrumi vari, ma anche rabarbaro, balsamo di tolu, geranio e frutti rossi, restituiscono un insieme metallico (sic!) freddo, sinteticamente verde, quasi acido, che piace tanto in giornate calde. avanguardia in profumeria? provocazione ai confini di quanto sin qui sniffato? certamente sì. da provare, a proprio rischio e pericolo!

Smells like a polished stainless spoon filled with drops of Paul Smith London for men.Same carnal bitter mandarine/coconut DNA,same nose A.Lie.Love it.

Starts with a metallic note that turns into an aldehydic lemon one soon afterwards and stays like that for hours. I get a bit of coconut and fig in the drydown, remotely similar to Marc Jacobs for men from 2002. It's not a crowd-pleaser for sure, but not horrible as some people describe it here either. A refreshing fragrance that doesn't smell like a thousand other refreshing fragrances on the market. I was expecting something shocking and unwearable, but I only got an aldehydic lemon fragrance. Some quite popular oud fragrances I've smelled so far (Perris Monte Carlo, Oud Imperial, I'm looking at you :D ) have shocked me much more than this almost inoffensive Antoine Lie creation. Still, there's something melancholic about Mercury. I feel just a little bit uneasy when I'm wearing it but that makes me enjoy it even more.