Exquisite Corpse

Hmmm, maybe a gourmand more than anything else since this smells for all the world like potato peels to me. A very fresh potato right out of the garden, dug up at night with damp dirt still on it but still pretty definitely potato peels. The bergamot is there and nicely done but I'm not getting any tuberose at all. This is much better than Demeter's attempt to do damp earth but it's very definitely for the person who likes eccentric perfume or wanting to smell like a sophisticated zombie. Sillage: decent, close Duration: 2-3 hours Fabulosity: spuds Price to value ratio: meh 3/10

i smell only pepper. a hint of dusty black pepper (not the sharper green as mentioned above) but white mostly - a spice which I've always felt has an aged flesh and BO component to it. frankly, this smells like kentucky fried chicken on me. no scent of flowers, but a hint of roasted flour. could be the earth note mixing with the pepper, i suppose. it's more intriguing in the tester. must try it on my husband and see if he has more luck or gets the colonel's secret recipe, too.

It's not as repulsive and horrific as Secretions Magnifiques. It does however, smell like rotting vegetables, necrotic flesh, and contaminated dirt. It's mildly nauseating. Tuberose hates my skin and explodes on it. I get the faintest whiff of rancid sourness from the tuberose, that is it. I suppose the mimosa accounts for the barely discernable sickly sweetness. I don't get green pepper and I cook with that plant a lot. I have never let green pepper go to rot so I couldn't say. Weak accords of putrescine and mostly decomposing vegetable matter. Utterly grotesque. Another amusing carnival side show freak of modern perfumery.