Description
The new fragrance by the London-based artists Jammie Nicholas smells of feces and dirt! The fragrance is named Surplus, perfectly suited to this controversial concept.
“I didn’t want to be like all the other schmucks and translate something from English into French just to sound glamourous., “says Jammie, “Surplus carries the same meaning in both languages, which negates the romantic connotations of the French language. “
He was inspired by ” a book by the French writer Dominique Laporte called The History Of Shit, which analyses the theoretical and social implications of faeces, and its role as a building material for cosmetics. It suggested that pleasant smells were used to cover bad smells, so it could be suggested that a bad smell could be used to cover pleasant smells.”
Surplus is available as a limited edition 60 ml EDT in 85 copies.
Surplus was launched in 2011.
wjt153elipseskism – :
I would like very badly to smell this scent. Wait? Don’t I already do that daily when my husband leaves the bathroom? I guess I could throw a few handfuls of dirt into the bathroom for the full effect.
Deroxoxihf – :
“Surplus, or the 60 millilitres of Sodom.”
Stealteh3000 – :
What so funny is that fragrantica have listed others from the same group including Pure Soap by Demeter, guess you could layer the two!!!
Seriously though I would be interested in the actual smell as I like indoles.
Is there anyone out there who can give an actual evaluation?
Gevyscest – :
Has anyone ever really smelled this?
itareUneroxia – :
Love the concept: seems like yet another artists’ in-joke inflicted on a gullible and status-hungry public. Imagine paying all that money for some guy’s shit! (Hmmmm… couched in those terms, it seems we already do, for a lot of other things). Anyway, am happy to remain on the sidelines and watch the shit fly … but am NOT happy at all with the marketing campaign — a young female model sensually posed and plastered with what looks to be excrement. It’s degrading to humanity. Even as parody it doesn’t work. Now a turd beautifully lit on a velvet black background and looking ambiguously like organically-grown designer chocolate … I think that might have been a better metaphor for consumption and waste.
denya95 – :
Gross, I was curious to see if someone actually would even do this, and I was suprised to be taken to this site. I cant believe people would actually buy a perfume made from poop! That isnt even a flower! That is just some video gamers ramen noodles from the other night morphed into a “perfume” DAAAAA gross!
cxceefv – :
I’ve smelled this perfume and it does in fact NOT smell at all scatalogical, or in any way disgusting for that matter. Personally I think it’s actually a very interesting concept. We all know that the very best of perfumes benefit hugely from having certain ‘off’ notes as part of their composition. Plus we all know (or at least should do by now if you’re into perfumes!) that ‘indoles’ are equally found in both ‘white florals’ as in ‘faeces’. And that these ‘indoles’ are exactly part of the reason why white flowers smell as pleasant and interesting as they do. – So if one can/does distil indoles from white florals I see no reason why one shouldn’t just try distill them direct from faeces instead (as this guy has done), where one would actually get a much larger yield. Seeing as the percentage of indoles are only roughly about ±5% from white florals, but a whopping ±30% from faeces.
– So why not try turn one of our most unattractive (& foul smelling) qualities into something pleasant like fragrance instead !? Ordure into perfume – I think it’s rather inspired really !!
1010lll – :
The idea is beyond disgusting and not even original (Piero Manzoni “Merda d’artista” 1961.).
Shadow-Cat – :
The perfume seem to be just a part of bigger concept. See the site and works of inventor. It also seem guy,s art ideas are extreemly controvercial at all 🙂 hmm….One idea is great – look at the pic of destilator shown in the “The sun is but one anus” project description. I want the same in my home! 😀 (brand new and clean ofcourse 😉 )…oh,oh artists…
kolesnik_i – :
Um?…..ok. The whole idea of this perfume just seems very…Egotistical to me, & it just… really gives me the creeps,to be honest.
The reason being is how its made, it literally is distilled from the artists feces, I can just picture him alone in his dark,raggedy apartment sitting in a corner rocking himself back & forward like a mad man, then he thinks to himself “you know what would be just brilliant? if I could sell my sh*T for ….$20…no,no,no… better yet three times that…$65 dollars & I bet people would buy it” and sure enough people fell for it, I think he sold something like 25 bottles already ….Pretentious Buffoon…british eccentrics…fascinating arent they?
sunrise2 – :
I imagine Andres Serrano and Chris Ofili own this perfume.
Andres Serrano is a photographer, notorious for smattering pics of religious icons with feces & urine.
Chris Ofili is the Nigerian who painted a black virgin Mary, then used elephant dung to fashion her jewelry, and used two piles of poop as a stand for the portrait.
Volshvid – :
When i smelt this perfume it actually made me vomit,and the first thing that i could think of that smelt better than that was my dogs poo,it shoudlnt be sold as i think that it is disgusting , thumbs up if you agree………
AntySPY – :
sometimes you have to wonder… 😉
How much would people pay, and will people pay?!? Is this art then?
I kind of have a mental image from “The Parfum” – Grenouille extracting the essence of faeces…
This type of fragrances (there are already that of sperm, blood,…) makes me question if the industry, we costumers and the artists aren’t just overfed and bored out of our mind to come to this deformed creation…
At least the bottle is tasteful ^-^
roosetiedge – :
Haha..All of us that work in the medical profession can name quite a few type of faeces smells depending on disease. Why not a urine type psudomonas (flowery type) frag.
arcat – :
Is this another April’s fool joke like Hillary Clinton’s perfume? You know what I’m not surprised – there are freaks out there that like the smell of feces and blood. To each his own :s
SaX_BomB – :
Boardbat! Fragrantica has given this an honored place in the fragrance library! As medical personnel we should investigate this comedy of terrors to give review on exactly what type of fecal odors this has. Is it C-diff fecality? Irritable bowel fecality? Heavy antibiotic fecality? Lower GI tract bleed fecality? Fecality of a neonate? Maybe it isn’t even human!!!!!
heh heh heh heh heh
ase584Bessinepome – :
I asked the question “How much does it cost ?” just out of curiosity, because I don’t have to buy that, I can have that right at my house for free …
Unbelievable !! If this is put into a museum for novelty sake, that’s alright, other than that … I don’t know …
Someone actually wearing that could be arrested for a public nuisance, no ?
Night_Hunter1 – :
OMG how HYSTERICAL!!!!!!!! Another carnival side show freak of perfumery!!!! I MUST MUST MUST have a sample of this one to do a proper review.
I will place it alongside Secretions Magnifiques and Exquisite Corpse in a place of honored grotesquery in my perfume collection. Amen
neovo – :
Save yourself money. If you want to smell like this, don’t clean yourself after going to the toilet.
tarapka – :
The smell of dirt, wet and soil like, – not that I’d wear it – wouldn’t be too horrible. But feces? Who would want to smell like feces, let alone pay money for it? If anyone buys this… Well let’s just say there’s one born everyday.
ElenaPerev – :
oh hell. i’m not interested in this at all. i work in a hospital, i could market my own brand. geeze.