Holy Hell

Universal Flowering, HOW did you bottle The Florida Project (and the scent of my childhood, which was strikingly similar)? First off, I love plastic notes!!! This is insanely unique but like, weird in a way that I can’t imagine being “too much” for many people. A warm pool floatie deflated from being slapped around all day, sunscreen, biting into juicy cut up honeydew after a day swimming at the pool. Filling a kiddie pool in your backyard and seeing the water from the hose reflecting rainbows. Polly pocket clothes with mysterious bite marks, the afterglow of a beach day, collecting shells in a pail, conditioning your salty hair at the end of the day. Very reminiscent of The Florida Project or mayhaps the pool rooms TM️ and so nostalgic. I live on the FL Space Coast and this reminds me of the tourist resorts near my house we’d sneak into to swim during the summer/stay at for birthday parties. One had a huge water slide, this smells like the inside of it. Putting on a bathing suit right when you wake up and being so excited for the day, but also the afterglow where you’re warm and exhausted. Changing in the locker room at the public pool. It feels warm. I get this toasty feeling that I assume is the choya nakh (toasted sea shells, obsessed) and an almond-y scent with the juiciest melon and of course rubber and sunscreen. Some florals come out in the drydown that remind me of honeysuckle. Warm sand, beachy but not marine. I just love this so much. Every time I smell it, it evokes a new memory and I find something new I like about it! Today, it made me think of going to those tacky tourist shops near the beach. I used to smell everything as a kid (and still do really) I’d smell all the toys, the seashells, the hermit crabs, the sunscreen and body mists, the airbrushed t-shirts, the postcards. Staying at Motel 6 with my family and feeling like I was living large. It’s playful, emotional AND it smells damn good with great longevity and sillage. I would join the UF cult if such a thing existed. If it does, someone please invite me 💗

Holly hell! This is soo similar to my signature scent Vacation but ...better? Stronger? More plasticky? I love and adore Vacation but i think i mention in every single review i write how much i truly detest bergamot, literally why is that note in almost every perfume? Unfortunately for me, Vacation was no exception. Also Vacation has a pineapple note i could really do without, ive always kinda hated coconut +pineapple combo. Sooo this is where Holy Hell really shines, no gross sour pineapple or Davidoff knockoff bergamot. Its all plastic pool toy, suntan lotion, salt and water. Even though there is no oceanic notes, the choya and ambergris combo lends to that, while the melon adds that fresh air. If Vacation was laying on a floatie, in the pool, slathered in Banana Boat drinking a piña colada, then Holy Hell is a more sophisticated version, maybe laying by the ocean, under an umbrella, wearing La Mer spf, drinking an organic coconut water. If you want it wetter, layer with JHAG Vanilla Vibes, if you want it coconutty-er layer it with Heretic Dirty Coconut, if you want it saltier and more marine, layer with #Nude Magma or Salt Air. All in all, this is absolutely addictive!

I bought the sample set for my birthday, and the first scent I smelled was Holy Hell. Before I sprayed it, just from smelling the nozzle on the sample, I said, "Oh God" out loud- I am a Floridian, born and raised, and this scent delivers what it means to be a Floridian- all of that- and more. This scent is a fresh bandaid opened for a knee skinned on the pool's concrete- there is plastic, adhesive, tanning oil, cut fruit growing soupy in a Tupperware, coco frío, chlorine, sunscreen, the A/C working hard at CVS. The plastic notes are literal, which makes this scent more compelling. I cannot stop smelling my wrist. I plan on purchasing full bottles of Holy Hell and Venus in Tuberose. This is for fans of Vacation's signature scent, and for fans of Juliette Has a Gun's Lust for Sun, only freakier. This scent gives the summer an edge again. We are going to Spencer's and Hot Topic in the Wellington Mall with wet hair and wearing jelly sandals after swimming at Juno Beach. Incredible.

Absolutely beautiful! On my husband I smell hot vinyl plastic but I don’t smell any plastic or vinyl notes on myself. It smells (on him) just like blowing up a beach ball on the beach! But in a very pretty way. On me I get suntan lotion, melon, and something floral. I prefer the scent on my skin. It is the perfect summer perfume and I’m so glad I found my summer perfume in one try! The reviews for this brand seem spot on (this is my second fragrance by them.) It’s a very evocative, unique, and pretty fragrance. The dry down seems to be mostly floral and fruity on both me on my husband. I adore it and this will be my new summer signature. update: tried it again a few weeks later and I totally smell the plastic on me now. WOW. what a unique and fun perfume. It’s really amazing. I can’t stop smelling my wrists. I smell like a pretty beach barbie, it’s addictive. You can smell the sun, the beach, the plastic.

i was so vexed by this one. when it first touched my skin, i got pure antiseptic smell, images of bandages and hospitals and plastic IV tubes flashing in my mind. after i'd let it settle for a while, about 40 minutes, only then did the full portrait unfold in front of me - the hospital opened up into a crowded beach, the antiseptic scent was placed within its context as being smeared over sunburnt peeling skin in a motel bathroom; the plastic note that at first conjured up medical equipment now evoking lawn flamingos, surfboards and pool inflatables. it smells like being day-drunk in flip flops and trying really hard not to trip over pebbles and clumps of beachgrass. this really is photorealistic and highly occasion-specific, but at the right occasion i couldn't imagine something better. and that occasion is Beach. i can't wait for summer so i can experience Holy Hell's full potential.