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Sportlerherz – :
Huh this is an odd scent. It doesn’t smell like any skin I’ve ever experienced. It also doesn’t smell good or like anything I want to smell of. It’s not rank but it’s so far from pleasant…I don’t even. It also doesn’t smell like musk or tonka. After sniffing my arm a trying to figure this out for a half hour now I can say this smells like metal. I got 6 huge Smell Bent samples and all but this one have merit.
proevolushion – :
I wonder if SmellBent has reformulated, because the free sample I got was just a plain sweet musk, not the shit smears the other reviewers smelled. Dear lord, I hope it’s just been updated and not that I’m anosmic or whatever to the smell of poo chemicals.
I thought it was a nice, yet boring, scent so I mixed half of it and half of “Hideous Heart” from BPAL into a spray vial and was quite pleased with the result. Warm, musky cinnamon!
Hopefully that poo business is cleared up. I certainly didn’t smell that, but eesh I’m almost apprehensive about wearing this out now.
Iphonemi – :
This scent should be called Farm Boy. I went to high school in a fairly small town that pulled in a few kids from the outer farming communities. These young guys stood out from the rest of us who were livin’ the Grunge dream of the nineties. They wore lived-in and skin tight wranglers, tight t-shirts or cotton button down shirts, big ‘ol cowboy hats and…of course…shit kickers!
I’m open minded when it comes to fragrances. I delight in the unusual…I do. But….but….Commando is a little too weird on me. It opens with a pungent note of manure. Steaming fresh, from the horses ass and mingled with the scent of sweet hay (because..that’s what horse doo doo mostly is…right?)It takes a while but some musk appears….no…ironically..not the dirty kind but a more sheer and clean musk. Some other unknown, fresh note gives me the feeling of a cool breeze…or maybe it’s cold water….ozone(?)not sure. All this put together makes me recall those sexy farm boys…all freshly scrubbed for a day of school in the “big city”. Sporty scented deoderant on under their tightly fitted, clean cotton tees, a waft of citrusy aftershave, a little heat and a little sweat from a morning full of chores before school, some lived-in leather. And last but certainly not least….a little crusty poo caked on the bottom of their boots. I see that I’m not the only one whose nose picks out this note….I wonder if the dudes at Smellbent meant for Commando to wear this way…..I wonder if they’re huddled in a corner somewhere in Southern California, nearly rolling on the floor in laughter….
UPDATE: Strange happenings….I was sent a new set of samples from Smellbent because the first batch had leaked all over. I just tried the Commando from my new pack and I SWEAR TO YOU…..the manure note is not there. Different batch perhaps?? I have no idea. It’s just warm, sweet hay….some clean musk and cotton t-shirt that’s been sitting in a wooden drawer for some time. Not bad….but I still won’t wear it.
keira007 – :
This scent is really weird.
I have no better word to describe it. It starts with a very metallic fresh citrusy note that lasts for an hour on me. Then comes a really soft and realistic musk, that reminds me of the smell of a cat’s head. It’s exactly that.
People around me said I smelled like black pepper which is the note that my skin always brings out in any perfume.
Commando acts like an highlighter for your natural smell, if that makes sense, for about two hours, and then softens into a slighly powdery tonka bean with a light vanilla undertone for the rest of the wear time (about 6/7 hours).
edit : I definitely get the indoles in the opening now, but it’s still a very wearable kind of animalic.
gpu000012 – :
First whiff, straight up Tonka Bean. Which you’d think is sweet medicinal vanilla, Anise like. I also get a persistent “Coconut”, suede leather like vibe the whole way.
There is a sweet powdery vibe in the back, but this is a far cleaner musk than i’d think.
This reminds me very much of a University locker room. Body washes. This is like… a guy’s body.. fresh out of the shower after using a sweet vanilla body wash.
Sillage: modest
Longevity: good
vitos88888 – :
Oh my. At first I was like “hmmm”, then I was like “oh for the love of bob NO NO NO”. The only was I can describe this is if you’ve been to a county fair and spent the day petting sweaty, stinky animals…that is exactly what this smells like!
gorsvetik – :
Strong and sweet. This is aggressive. VERY aggressive– I have an oil sample, and tested out the barest little drop, and I’m surrounded by a cloud of animalic musk that’s almost overwhelming.
I’m not getting the fecal scent that others have mentioned, by the way. Just a heavy, strong, sweet animal aroma that hits like a Mack truck.
This is not a scent that I’d wear to work or church. Nope.
I like it, though. A lot.
Mepxa516JeomiWogkig – :
62)What a delight, a musk salted by the tears of the lady trying hopelessly to keep his Legionnaire .
“Il m’a aimée toute la nuit,
Et me laissant à mon destin,
Il est parti dans le matin
Plein de lumière !
Il était mince, il était beau,
Il sentait bon le sable chaud,
Mon légionnaire ! ”
Edith Piaf
TanuxaKiska – :
i’m curious, i love hot sensations but this fragrance is not for me….too strong ,near “fecales materials “(not good english but i speak about indole i think)…..i prefer “mkk” more subtil or perhaps “HO>3” strong and feminine;every taste is in the nature!!!
erkata – :
This is a very peculiar, tricky little scent… Though ‘little’ is probably not the best descrptive, as it is confrontational to the point of being confounding. I am not sure if I simply ‘appreciate’ what it achieves, am reviled by it, or oddly attracted to it?
“NebraskaLoves” review illustrates the nature and complexity of this scent far better than I will be able to. If you ever read this, NL, GREAT write up! It is very much a carnal musk… Body Shop’s White Musk, it is not! Again, I will agree with Nebraska that it isn’t necessarily ‘dirty’, but it is feral and slightly unsettling. I can see how some might find it borderline vulgar. I’ve flip flopped several times, as it also intruiges me.
The initial impact upon spray (I have the spray, I believe it comes in oil form, too) is PHEW!!! Yet it softens on my particular chemistry and melds to the point where it is slightly briny yet also oddly intimate. I can’t say much more beyond that…
It’s not something I would care to wear, nor can I think of an occasion for which it would be appropriate, but I am glad I ‘experienced’ it.
I wish there was a ‘HUH?’ option for voting, b/c I neither like nor dislike this scent. It is an achievement, so for that I give it recognition.
Skvisgaar – :
To me, this just smells like a man’s hairy skin with maybe a little halitosis in the mix. I wore it a few times and it smelled cuddly and human, not gross (thankfully). Then again, I’ve dated crust punks before, so I’m not easy to disgust in terms of bodily odors. Commando reminds me of a less complex Muscs Koublai Khan. I love the bottle, and the cute puns, cartoons, and wittiness of SmellBent in general.
Дамирка – :
There is a haunted house in my area. Once you manage your way through the puffy black blow up walls you wind up in what looks like a public batrhroom.It it “done up” with bm all over the walls and a horrible realistic smell of same.The most realistic haunted house experience ever.
I could not figure out how this tied in to haunted house theme, though yes, it was horrifying!
My guess is someone had a bottle of Commando that they did not want to go to waste!
And that, my friends, is what this scent conjures up.Nasty BM smeared haunted house public bathroom!
Oh, and a slight scent of disinfectant..but like the walls were disinfected before, not after.
palevo195 – :
Hobo shorts.
SheedyWhind – :
Absolutely disgusting! As already mentioned it smells like a pair old old man undies with skid marks left ot ferment for a week. I want to vomit!
sashok68 – :
I can only imagine than indole was used in this scent. What I get is the unmistakable scent of faeces overlaid with a white musk. It literally smells like skid-marked pants and I will not be smelled publicly wearing this strange creation. I can’t actually imagine who would want to smell like this but I’m glad I tried it!!
Didikey – :
No sweetness, no musk, no scent of human skin.
If I try to identify the individual notes I am smelling, I would say they are dirt, rubber tires, and oily leather.
As much as I try to focus on the individual notes, the overall effect reminds me too much of a public restroom that has not been cleaned properly for the last several years…the kind you might venture into as an adult if you were totally and unavoidably desperate, but would never in a million years allow your children to enter…under ANY circumstances.
I am beyond uncomfortable with the way this scent smells on my skin. I feel like I need to disinfect myself and avoid contact with other humans, so they don’t question my personal hygiene, but I am still so fortunate to have tested this! What a bizarre scent!!!
erahim – :
Commando is a completely original take on a “skin scent.” My experience with skin scents to date has revealed that most of them turn to a soft, clean white musk, sometimes with a little sweetness of amber or vanilla thrown in for good measure.
Commando does something completely different. This is truly a “skin” scent. It smells like a not-dirty-but-not-freshly-washed person who has spent several hours in the sun and wind. It captures that salty, earthy, natural “human” aroma, with just a tiny bit of sweetness from tonka bean, which actually gives it almost a rubbery aroma.
It’s not a dirt smell. It’s not the smell of perspiration. Commando manages to smell uniquely personal even in the bottle, and merges with your own skin’s aroma to become something new and and different.
I’m reminded of Grenouille’s “human” perfume in Patrick Susskind’s Perfume: The Story of a Murderer. The rank smell that Grenouille composed was appropriate for a time period when people did not bathe regularly, brush their teeth or use underarm deodorant. Commando is almost like Grenouille’s smell for a sanitized 21st century population that showers twice a day, uses a minty toothpaste and applies unscented anti-perspirant. Truly the scent of human skin.
Oh, and lasts ages! Remarkable!
OdinDoma_777 – :
Applied just a bit. Rank at the opening. I think the fragrance has gone bad since I’ve had the sample a year. Give it 10 seconds and it mellows. But even then, no, no no. Smells like freshly poured concrete.