UNTITLED No. 2 by Tristan Brando

I love this perfume oil but I can no longer find it anywhere. It is very light and smells like real, unsweet coconut milk mixed with the most beautiful shampoo you could ever imagine. I also detect the "driftwood musk", which gives it a fresh woodsy-nutty aroma. It doesn't really smell like a perfume at all, but like a freshly showered person's hair coated in milky coconut flesh. It doesn't have much oomph or lasting power, but it is so beautiful I could bathe in it. I don't normally go for the tropical scents (I dislike Tristan Brando's other perfumes) and most coconut smells like plastic to me, but this one is a winner.

Some perfume oils are so potent that one must take care in applying or the scent will overwhelm. Untitled #2 is not one of those; you have to apply quite a bit of it to get enough 'critical mass' to begin to smell it. You have to actually get a bit oily before that point, which I find unappealing unless I am on a beach or massage table. Then it is very tropical and pleasant at that point, but strikes me more as a coconutty perfumed body or suntan oil than a perfume. I wonder who decides to market a product as a perfume rather than a body product? I think they made a mistake with this one. I usually love perfume oils but not Untitled #2. The fragrance itself is fine, it just does not meet my expectations for a perfume oil. It has no sillage, no longevity and you have to get oily to even smell it on yourself.

I've had my sample for about 4 years and still have some left. Is this good or bad?? Well it's good because if I hated it I would not keep it around this long but it's a little bad because it means I'm not sure I love it enough to buy a bottle. I enjoy trying this on from time to time, I enjoy the tropical coconut with zing from the tangelo, but what is it that's keeping me from investing? I don't know.

Yuck at first application. This smells like rotted fruit. Sickly sweet and just this side of making me gag. Smells like there might be paypaya as a note. Definately has vanilla. As it dries down it improves but never gets to "good". I get a bit of a "dirt" note and even something a bit spicy. Alas, a dispapointment since I has such high hopes based on the notes.