Club Design

Sex on Gliese 436 b ★★★★★ The first time I wore Club Design was to a Christmas buffet. I’m unsure what psychotic state of mind plagued me at that point, but mistakes were made indeed. As much as I loved sampling it at home, Club Design proved to be too much of a fierce beast to be compatible with carrot casserole, mulled wine and roast beef. Or any food imaginable. So, I got scared and didn’t wear it for a long time until this one April weekend rolled around and found myself picking fragrance suitable for an underground techno event. The choice was obvious, and I liberally doused myself with the colossus that is Club Design. The effect it had on me was magnificent - an exhilarating contradiction of merciless isolation and warmth of familiarity. A place of thundering light and heavy smoke violently permeated with pulsing rhythms and screeching treble. An ecstatic collective higher consciousness that emerges from the shifting swarms of vulnerable people together moving in 130 BPM. To be a human is to share and take part, and it is a beautiful thing to achieve that through the medium of music. Club Design might be a fetid beast at the Christmas table but judge not. Just like the people at this forsaken techno bunker, tenderness crystallizes in places where you least expect it. Many perfumes strive for the trendy industrial coldness, such as CdG Black, but they’re oblivious for the fact that we’re still humans in 2019 and artificial intelligence hasn’t taken over the world yet. At times Club Design portals into such high avant-garde realms that it quite literally smells like the inside of a spaceship, yet it never isolates me from my humanness. It is the spaceship after all that keeps me from meeting my demise on the boiling surface of Gliese 436 b. Soundtrack: Clark - Unfurla Ps. Check out Laudamiel's instagram he shares lots of valuable information on his profile @christophelaudamiel!

It smells exactly like the interior of a new car. I love it, it's unique, masculine, has that strange rubbery leathery clean smell. It's versatile too, you can totally wear it in the winter because of the warm leather, and summer too, because it's also rubbery, pleasantly clean. I place the performance on the lower part of acceptable. It radiates for one-two hours, and then becomes intimate, but is still there. By 5 hours, you get small whiffs when moving around, and after 7-8 hours, it's gone, unless you had clothes that received some sprays. If you want this scent to be a part of your social life, you need to bring the bottle to work to reapply it. Do you usually do that for juice you paid 2+ EUR per ml for? That's the money that can get you extraits with real oud in them, that lasts 20 hours+. Club Design is a luxury perfume, despite their marketing being hipstry and personal and totally relaxed and chilled. It's a leathery and woody luxury perfume, and it won't last you a full day, even if richly sprayed. It's a beautiful and genius scent tho. It really is. EDIT: ( I WAS NOSE BLIND ) I bought this perfume despite my initial thoughts, because I love the scent. I can now confirm that I was likely nose blind during the sample testing. The first spray from the bottle, which has a robust and firm sprayer (and came in a beautiful cloth bag with a metal key ring), immediately filled my bathroom. It stays around for about 15 hours at least. I was complimented 13 hours after applying it. I'm letting the review stay tho, as a lesson and reminder that smell is very hard to assess objectively.

Radiant, somehow sparkling, transparent leather that morphs into soft floral suede, and then a sexy, clean (but with mammalic warmth) musk. All of this with, as mentioned below, the faint shellac of industrial smell like brand new furniture. It’s also interesting because there is a phase where I detect the same aroma chemicals used in Secretions Magnifique only in Club Design they are manipulated differently to add a milky/fruity tinge to the floral leather. This was my favorite of the line and I would guess it will probably be the most popular because it’s easy to wear but with the excitement of something unusual. To simplify my impression imagine Comme Des Garcon released a leather fragrance in line with their takes on Oud, Wood, Black Pepper, Floral Oriental, Incense etc. I wouldn’t be surprised if it smelled something like this. Although, to me, this feels better quality than most CDG fragrances.

I ordered this blind on the strength of Mr. Turin's review in The Guide, and I was not disappointed. Club Design is remarkable in that it offers a photorealistic leather accord (nothing in my collection smells more like actual leather than this) but situates that leather inside a fully realized perfume with a top, middle and drydown. It's not just a special effect. It smells like rubber, suede shrink-wrapped in plastic, factory-fresh, tart grapefruit and currant, dusty, oily Lilly, the kind with those greasy stamens that stain everything, honeyed warm breath and a bunch of other things I can't recognize. Industrial in the best way, it's not trying to smell "natural" and ending up artificial, it's boldly artificial but just for fun. This is the first leather I've smelled that's friendly and extroverted. really great strength, amazing value at the price it goes for. Bravo Mr. Laudamiel!

I really like this. The initial rubbery accord is reminiscent of Bulgari Black, but everything else about this is unique. Futuristic but familiar. A clear, cohesive idea that leaves a distinctive overall impression, but also notes and accords that can be noticed and teased out. Rubber, leather, grapefruit, something green/herbal. All adding up to a singular smell. What I'm trying to say is you just have to smell it. It probably won't smell like you imagine it--it didn't for me. But hopefully, like me, you'll find something stranger and better than you'd imagined.