Pretty Rotten No. 33

Pretty Rotten is one of my favorite perfumes. It definitely doesn't please everyone. It is essentially photorealistic rotting sour apples. But hear me out. My aunt and uncle's neighborhood was built on top of an Orchard, and they had a couple of apple trees. I don't remember what kind of apples they were, just that they were green and they were too many to all be harvested, so most of them would drop to the ground and start to rot. When fruit starts to rot or get overripe, is when the sugars start to break down and whatnot, and that's where the spun sugar and honey comes in. It's that early stage of rotting sweetness blended with the sour of the apple.

This perfume is both strange and amazing. It's difficult to describe as there isn't much I can compare it with. It's apple, but not fresh apple or candy apple - it's fairytale apple with all the complexities of the villain attempting to murder the heroine and the heroine coming up with ingenious plans to fight back. It's a little powdery but not old, a little sweet but not bright, and a little vixen-ish without being try-to-hard seductive. This is a perfume I wear 'just for me' as I go about my day.

I came across this fragrance on this site. When I saw how strange it was I had to have it. I love original scents especially unisex fragrances. This one Is hard to explain. I detect all the notes listed. Mostly the rose and I HATE rose fragrances. They somehow managed to keep the rose under control while still allowing it to shine through. It's a work of art. - original - unique - beautiful -truly unisex - awesome bottles and themes Dry down - rose - honey

On me, it smells like crisp fresh apples in the forest with just a hint of the smell of decaying fallen leaves on the ground. The first spray immediately brought to mind "this is autumn". Not in a pumpkin spice toasted marshmallow kind of way but a more earthy out in nature kind of way. It works really well with my body chemistry, and I loved it enough to buy a full bottle the day after I received a sample. It's my new fall daytime go-to,

Beautiful! Gorgeous crisp apple, deliriously beautiful rose, and a lush, rotting vegetation; leaves, bits of bark, greenery. It's truly divine. Sweet and also a beautiful natural decaying, moist garden smell. Very enriching, with a slight melancholic sense. It almost makes me cry, with happiness!! It's such a gorgeous perfume. And I adore the fabulous bottle!!!