FUEL 0987

When I tell you I recoiled at the strong opening! This is absolute art. I sprayed and went for a deep inhale, I did not expect it to be such a photorealistic fuel. I also smell wood, burning wood, a plasticky note that might be the coal tar. This is pungent, sticky, I can visualise the acrid smoke as we speed towards the abyss using all of the available fuel on the unimportant, the worthless pursuits, belching pollution into the atmosphere and for what? This scent is the scent of environmental destruction and the willful ignorance of humanity. Well worth purchasing for the contemplation and experience, it is art in a bottle and I am only just through the opening. It really is a shocking scent to me and I have smelled many things. The middle - other posters are correct. After the shocking opening, this is sexy. Clean mechanic, leather in a garage. It softens. This is the smell of a hard working father, or daddy, you choose. Whichever, I want to be in the arms of the person who smells like this.

100% unapologetic gasoline note in the opening won me over immediately, because I am forever a fan of unconventional notes in perfumery and one of those weirdos that actually likes the smell of gasoline. But for those of you who may be a bit skittish, fear not, because just as quickly as it comes on, it transitions quite surprisingly into a very pleasant orris-soft amber. And there is a minerality that reminds me of crushed patio rock that runs pretty consistently through the life of the fragrance that I find quite comforting. All and all, a unique, intriguing and approachable journey.

Following a thread on reddit, I looked up tar as a note on Fragrantica and ended up buying a bottle of Fuel. Indeed it has the realistic scent of a street with a new tar coating, with some sweet undertones that makes it pleasant with just the right balance of originality and wearability. Performance is good.

I work as a sous chef. I love this scent, but I was asked by my boss to never wear it to work again because he said he couldn't focus on anything with "the smell of a mechanic" next to him all day. Personally, it's a solid 8/10. 9 if I didn't get yelled at for it, lmao

Got this as a gift after falling in love with it. It reminds me of my fathers garage, very mechanicy but also wearable. Sometimes layering it with a rose scent to make it a bit less intimidating. It can "stink" to some people, because it is gasoline/tar forward.