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.

This is not so terrible as some reviews say. It's not worthing fb imo but I can wear it.. if I'm forced to. The big drawback is its performance and not the scent which is quite safe. I was expecting something that only Frankenstain would wear but no.. it's good if you like lemon and aldehydes mainly. There is a shortlived vibe of rusty metal with lemon which dissapears after 2 minutes. But after 1 hour is hardly detectable.

I dont find this as metallic as some of the other reviewers. Yes, it is metallic but more fresh than other metallic ones I have (Blood concept AB which I adore!!). Perfectly wearable, leaning masculine.

230) Sécrétion Magnifique 2 It is metal, marine, aromatic on a milky base. A very easy to wear Sécrétion Magnifique by ELO because it's totally a variation on the same theme . In fact it could have been a great success in mainstream perfumery, something similar to Invictus if it had been created with less profit research and more artistic taste and intelligence. It evokes the ultra-cleanliness, metal, sport while being ambivalent enough to accompany a costume.

I think everyone knows that smell, which comes after you've had a terrible flu, that metallic smell of inflamed sinuses. That is exactly what this fragrance smells like! I can recommend this only for persons who like having a flu. Otherwise... steer clear!

Starts out like getting punched in the nose, amazing. I love chemicals the most. DRIES DOWN INTO GENERIC MEN'S SMELL THAT LASTS FOR 3-5 DAYS. TERRIBLE amazing packaging. you have to tear into it to get at the bottle

Metallic + aldehydes. Like having blood in your mouth after being heavily punched in a face. I agree with BBjr, I can almost feel pain in my teeth.

This is my least favourite offering from this brand. Very synthetic citrus, reminds me of the axe body spray i wore when i was younger.

this one smells like dirty water, or let's say like the smell of a metal spoon that someone just woke up without brushing his teeth or wash his mouth and ate some food using it, and now the spoon dried down so you can smell his saliva on that metal spoon. and maybe the breath of someone with an empty stomach since the morning.

Master perfumer Antoine Lie has a way with uncanny smells. There's this strictly chemical acrid compound, yes, but at the same time there are traces of something living: secretions, decay, body parts, rotting plants, i don't know. In real life, the most common place for these two worlds to meet are hospitals. This is an olfactive fantasy and not the real world, but a certain kind of anxiety remains. Mercury seems to be many things at once, while at the same time being so simple at any given moment. Blood of an alien in a lab. A sour fruit. Formaldehyde. Chrome. Flower stems. A fermented something, full of microorganisms doing their job. A metal taste in the mouth that was given a nocturnal depth. A summer day in the industrial zone. A post-nuclear swamp. Som people have memories from this scent. i don't. Now and then, something familiar pops up for seconds because of its sharpness. It's an acquired sharp taste, slightly out of focus though. You're imagining other liquids, not even a trace of a solid. A Rorschach test made of spilled chemicals and biological waste. Good to have such unwearable smells available. It's like having an art object.

This is disgusting juice that smells like some terrible kind of fatal car accident on a hot humid highway with sweaty patrol officers and overweight EMT's left to clean up the mess. Metallic blood and B.O. that's hardly concealed by the obnoxious air fresheners dangling from the mangled rearview mirror or the cheap dimestore deodorants worn by sloppy onlookers. Absolutely terrible. Stay away unless you're of the "trainwreck" variety and just can't manage to steer your eyes from a good disaster when it crosses your path. Thumbs down.

Was curious and blind bought it to a very reduced price. I got the One of Those version. Seriously! What is this?!?! First seconds very fresh. Shortly after like rotten stems in a vase when you take them out and they are brown and soft, decayed. Plus metal. If you get through that phase which lasts a few hours it turns into a pleasant smooth perfume, a bit like Fat Electrician. It‘s a trip! Question is: Do I want to take it upon me to stink for a few hours? Don’t know, yet. Maybe I‘ll be getting used to it.

It looks like another of my favorites. The beginning is so joyfully sweet, I'd say. Which disappears in a few minutes and turns into citrus with aldehydes with a metallic chord. Rhubarb with black currants adds interesting depth. In my opinion, another very good scent from Antoine Lie.

Metallic? My teeth hurt when the scent hits my nostrils. Good lord this is just plain bad. I suppose to each his own but, for the life of me, don’t know why anyone would want to smell like this.

yeah honestly not that bad. Its a sweet rhubarb citrus except theres a load of metallic aldehyde, something like saliva if you sniff it to close. definitely not a love however

Talk to me if you have it so we can trade.