Magenta Pop

This triggers a very particular memory. It's the mid-nineties, and I'm about nine years old, eating a grape Fun Dip at a Go-Kart Track in Florida. Not far away, two older girls in swimsuits and aqua socks are covertly smoking cigarettes on the mini-golf course adjacent to the Track while their mothers not-so-covertly flirt with one of the go-kart attendants over by the Power Aid machines. Inside, there is an arcade that smells pleasantly of synthetic cleaner and foot traffic, where icee machines hum, and the whole room is dim and all neon and noisy with little digital arpeggios and fragmented songs in C major. There's the clatter of pinball machines with the whooshes and pops of crowded skee-ball lanes and the clanks and hydraulic hisses of the moving basketball goal of the NBA Hoops game, and three snack bar employees have just returned from a boxy, white Volvo station wagon in the parking lot where they have been sharing a grape swisher. The smell of artificial grape, and faint smoke, and something else I can't identify radiates from their general direction as they scan the room probably knowing soon they'll have to draw straws to see who will have to shampoo the soda stains out of the Memphis Milano patterned carpet and scrape wads of gum from underneath the tables near the door. I used to spend a lot of time in that place, and it had a very particular smell that this fragrance captures perfectly. In fact, the scent profile is so laden with nostalgia for me that wearing it sometimes feels like a therapy session, but this is still a personal favorite and one that I like to show people from time to time as an example of how innovative perfumery can get. TL;DR: Very creative grape soda themed perfume with high use of synthetics and unorthodox scent profile that may nevertheless have enormous mnemonic power for some. Not a safe blind buy, but highly suggested in my case.

I’m sooo upset this is discontinued! I fell in love with it just recently. If anyone wants to sell please lmk! That said, from the sample I have, I don’t get a whole lot of the childhood candy/lollipop from this except in the very beginning, and even then I still get mostly incense. I love incense scents though and this one is kind of fruity incense, which I used to burn a lot of in high school so this actually is nostalgic for me, but not in the way intended. I have explored a lot of incense scents and (even though this isn’t *technically* an incense scent) this one is perfect. Maybe it’s the tobacco that comes through as fruity incense on my skin, but either way it’s the exact smell of my old bedroom, and I need it.

Sweet, fruity, addicting, sparkly, VERY lightly pissy, and yet it's the one fragrance that all of my non frag-head friends give the most positively charged comments towards, with the exception of my girlfriend who says it smells like an underpass drenched in stale piss, so make of that what you will. Absolutely stunning, and now it's been discontinued I really just want to buy a whole load of these bottles. Why must it be so much per ml! I want to bathe in it!

Possibly an overly niche reference but this blends Blueberry Chypre by Aromas de Salazar, and Charmed by D.Grayi. Both wonderful in their own right, but this combines them and adds grape on top. Quite lovely. Sweet, deep yet soft, gourmand with a touch of animalics. Certainly worth a sniff

I have 15ml left. It's discontinued. I don't know how I'm going to cope once my bottle has been emptied. I want more. I need more.