Abduction

This may be my favorite scent in the entire world. Out of all the smells I have smelled, this one is my favorite. One whiff and I'm in the backseat of my grandmother's teal Ford Escort, asking if I can have an Altoid and finding the can only full of warm pennies as she grins at her little deception. Once it starts to fade, the scent tickles my throat, reminding me of sick days as a child, and my grandmother's remedy: store brand Dr. Pepper. It's like hairspray and chapstick and heat and cars and something in it reminds me of the smell of a hotel room someone smoked in, weeks ago. The frankly bizarre sweet note is a huge draw. I don't have a nose for this stuff, couldn't tell you what that sweetness is, but it's the main note i get, and I can't get enough. Honestly, this smell does evoke alien abduction, I'll give them that. If I push aside the olfactorily awakened memories, I can smell myself on a dirt road, looking up to the blinding light in the sky. I can smell the metal and alien antiseptic of the ship. I can smell the hazy memory loss of being deposited back on the ground. Let this perfume take you on a journey. Who knows what you will find?

Dear reader, I’ve kept this tiny bottle hidden for 3.5 years, my signature scent, held hostage out of fear it’d attract too much attention. I’ve finally let it go (well, not really). To me, this “horrifying” fragrance is irresistibly cute: synthetic yet nostalgic, sweet, sterile, earthy, wet floral, sunny, musky, salty, green marine (almost sea weed-like, probably the floralozone), and perfectly balanced. It smells like humanity and nature in a bottle. It reminds me of an olive-green grass-field under morning sun, cold and crisp air in my lungs, accompanied by the scent of the woods near the forest, and the feeling of lying down on my back, unworried about my freshly clean, SPF HUNGRY, DRY AND SENSITIVE skin out of shower in the summer. It reminds me of home. I got greedy & barely used it. Only bunch of sprays used so far. It’s addictive, mysterious, and still unmatched in the world of clean green/ marine atmospheric scents. Timeless, unisex, with great longevity and sillage. Edit: Random, but it also reminds me of the podcast "Welcome to Night Vale".

absolutely gut wrenching, never smelled such a thing, truly a fragrance of legends. makes you feel like you are in a different planet where your sense of smell is wrong, hence the name "abduction". this is one of the most unwearable yet artistic perfumes I have ever bought, I can't think of a possible occasion where I can wear this, but it is not made for an occasion, it is made for a surprise, a traumatic experience only a few experienced if they have experienced it at all, an alien abduction.

I am not gonna lie, this fragrance makes you cringe a bit. When I first smelled this, I thought it could pass as an average cologne for an older guy, shortly after the dry down, this thing smell OTHERWORLDLY. It’s just unusual and it begins to make you feel sick but I appreciate the art behind it all, after all that is the point right? Yes :)

Definitely a very strange and complex scent. It’s somehow cold and spicy at the same time, and almost reminds me of men’s shaving cream or aftershave. Not unpleasant at all at first, but as it dries and fades, the faint whiffs are definitely almost anxiety-inducing. I’m a huge fan of weird scents so this will definitely be a classic for me.