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Thutrarty – :
This feels like a long forgotten time and place.
I like how primitive it smells. Wearing this fragrance is a reminder that there is still another reality other than the current make-believe world that humans have built for themselves. A reality that is more wild and free, but also more dangerous.
“From the primordial soup
Out of the dim and the gloom we came
We are animals
One unbroken chain” -R.M.
Aleks1111.84 – :
Animalic – dark woody – leathery
Color impression: hickory brown
Les Liquides Imaginaries challenges animalic realm with a hardcore tired farm horse odor. It’s a face no mother would love, yet there is something intriguing that makes it fancy.
Peau de Bête opens and ends with massive animalic notes. Cypriol sings the intro then calls phaunic nuances of castoreum and civet, which register for strange kinkiness. For its dark woody skeleton, I find it to be quite daring to wear but once settled on skin it portrays a skin-warmth mythical animality that perfectly fits body odor. A solid animalic fragrance. Do you dare?
★★★
Konvicted – :
Perfumery for being an art that can not save collective memory takes advantage of this when it wants to recycle ideas. It is always possible to sell the old as new and innovative to a new generation of consumers who did not have access to the older references and so will not be able to criticize the marketing and concept. This is what the brand Les Liquides Imaginaires tries with Peau de Bete, with the promise of innovating using the sensuality and naturality of an animalic aroma.
Of innovative Peau de Bete has nothing and even if its aroma is risky the fact is that other fragrances have made their way and dared before it. One of the first to venture in this direction was Serge Lutens and his Muscs Koublai Khan, a scent that carries in various distinct animalic nuances and creates a fecal smell that in fact has the ferocity that Peau de Bete promises in its name. Another one that comes to mind is Byredo M / Mink, who seems to drink from the source of the lutens perfume and combine it with an honey animalic and metallic scent for a really daring experience. Peau de Bete, compared to these, is safe in its bet.
What I find very strange is the brand’s attempt to call it a natural scent, since the new exploration of animalic fragrances is largely based on synthetic aromas. I understand that perhaps the naturalness refers to the attempt to create a skin scent, a concept of “ugly” that is aesthetically pleasing. In that sense I think the brand is successful, creating an aura that although unisex could easily pass as the aroma of male skin.
The first moments of Peau de Bete are the most challenging, opening with an explosion of civet, castoreum and musks that create a scent of leather with a fecal aroma. The orchestration around it makes me think of one of the classics of masculibe perfumery, Kouros, but without the powdery aura, as if Peau de Bete focused on the animalic aromas and the herbs. The longer the time passes the more the perfume becomes safe on the skin, maintaining a subtle animalic tone, something that distantly refers to a sweaty skin, and masking it through a woody scent with nuances of incense, something that seems to gravitate around a cedar concept.
Perhaps one of the strengths of Peau de Bete is precisely that of not being innovative, because not wanting to raise the volume of the animalic aromas it offers a more comfortable experience past the initial moments. It is an interesting perfume that takes advantage of the way opened by other more innovative creations at the same time that it seems to refer to the classic masculine perfumery.
tivalik – :
A gorgeous spicy saffron herbal opening with wafts of a very warm intimate leather. The inside of a worn leather jacket description offered by another reviewer I think captures this very well. One that has been dragged through the forest floor with woody and green notes appearing from time to time. Be warned – if you try this on paper or card you will recoil in horror. On the skin it is a completely different proposition.
It very quickly becomes like a second skin, very warm with fuzzy animalics, with limited projection and sillage. A beast perhaps, but not a monster, and one that does not last much over 6 hours in total. A scent that is worth taking time to know.
god111 – :
طغیان و تکامل…
پو دو بت، عطری الهام گرفته شده از اسب و سیل خروشان باشکوه و تاخت و تاز خیره کننده ی اسب ها هست. فضایی سرکش، باصلابت و راز آلود که بسان تکاپویی برای رهایی از حیوانیت و طغیانی در راه تکامل به نظر میرسه.
دی مئو، پو دو بت رو رایحه ای معرفی کرده که از تمثالی با سر اسب و تن انسان الهام گرفته شده و در راستای ادامه ی حرکت بر ایده های خیال پردازانه و کمال گرایانه ی خانه ی لیکویید ایمجینرز ارائه شده. این عطر، یکی از جسورانه ترین عطرها و برجسته ترین روایح مفهومگرایی هست که در این مدت با اون مواجه شدم و لذت بسیاری از لمس فضای موهوم، تأمل بر انگیز و پر چالش اون بردم.
پو دو بت، عطری از سیوت و کستوریم هست که با شاخ و برگی گیاهی و تلخ، دودی و اسپایسی-خاکی، در فضایی سرکش و بی باک و عاصی ارائه میشه. حس چرکین انیمالیک، با زیره ی چرب و چرکین، تقویت شده اما به زیبایی، در خروش چوبها و گیاهان و چرم دودی، مهار شده.
کمال گرایی رویاپردازانه ی مختص لیکویید، در این عطر هم دنبال شده و امضای گایاک چوبی-دودی، زعفرانی و صمغی، به جبهه ی خاکی-دودی-گیاهی ملحق میشه، تا با شکوه هرچه تمامتر، با وجه انیمالیک چرکین و چرب، ادغام بشه.
حرکتی جسورانه، طغیانگر و آزادی طلب، که آزادانه و بی مرز، از رؤیاهایی تاریک و بدیع و از ایده های خاص و منحصربفرد، در قالب یه در هم تنیدگی حیوانی-دودی-گیاهی و تاریک منسجم، سخن میگه.
تعالی و کمال حاصل شده در پو دو بت، چالش انگیز و غافلگیر کنندست. از نور و تطهیر و سرودها و شعارهای خسته کننده و تکراری در این فرجام، خبری نیست! این عطر، حیوانیت سرکش گریزان به سمت تکامل انسانی، و انسانیت خسته از شعارها و بندها و روزمرگی هاست که بسوی رهایی بی قید و بند و وحشی خودش در رجعته تا اینکه در مرزی از خاکستر و دود و تعلیق، در همدیگه فرو میرن.
عطری خاص، قدرتمند، مرموز و آکنده از چالش و مفهوم. اثری که برای توصیف اون، به همین یک بیت زیبا از حضرت مولانا بسنده میکنم:
یک مدتی ارکان ب’دی، یک مدتی حیوان ب’دی
یک مدتی چون جان شدی، جانانه شو جانانه شو …
کامنت: م.ع
(سایت لوکس بایر (با امکان تست سمپل
FitteeTuh – :
on me this had a weird smell of cheese mould and plastic… very odd.
smezyhwphju – :
Leather Scent: After a chuckle reading the reviews…this is a typical leather. Instead of birch wood, here is “torchwood” and “oud” and patch and coumin. Whew! While it has notes of “suede” it is a more “tannin and hide”-based leather that stays that way for a good long time. Looking at the notes, there is little to cut this and make it creamy. I detect a smoothness after the five-minute top note burns off, and I rather like it, but this to me smells like the inside of a leather jacket of a man that has been outside, though NOT sweating outside. It’s a warmed-skin and rough leather smell. I don’t smell “sweaty balls” TG. It actually does smell like “horse.” So, yes, I like it, but I’m not sure that “horse” would be appropriate for an elegant dinner out out, a fancy soiree, or intimate moment.
Leather fragrances, as a whole, are not my cup of tea–I don’t think I have very many leather frags, unless they move strongly into “amber” or “woods” territory with less of the astringent “oud” base. But I like this and it mellows considerably over the next few hours, becoming a bit more resinous and sweet.
One feature of it I find intriguing is that the closer I move my nose to it, the more it smells like the description above first paragraph–but when I catch whiffs of it, move away from it, then it becomes smoother, more saffron and honeyed, sweet musky, in a very pleasant way. I recommend if you’re into leather and horses.
8.5
Nicolk – :
Smells like sweaty balls? Naa, perhaps sugar coated and with plastic tied around them. I detect some leather, plastic notes, and a bit of an animalic scent though not very challenging. The scent stays close to the skin and does not project much. Also, it is not long lasting. Rather an interesting fragrance, though.
samson123 – :
This one is skunk, not human skunk but animal skunk. and it’s not that away from their 3rd trilogy but it is dirty specially the top note as it makes me feel disturbed for a while and furthermore.
Today i brought up the sample again and sprayed it on my skin, felt disturbed again but not as same as i felt when sprayed on the plotter! it was quite skunky at first, but the colder it goes the better it becomes in away that makes me move my shirt more often just to sniff it! that was weird to me cause there is something in this juice that makes me extremely disliking it and at the same time there is something that attracts me and pull me to it, It’s like a LOVE HATE on one plate. But it remains after all a risky type of fragrance and to the one who loves extreme animalic notes.
Now this fragrance feels like the hated son for Les Liquides Imaginaires cause i couldn’t find any info about it on their website and just recently they talked about it in their social media but still as if it’s the one that don’t like to talk about or describe! so as “L’Ile Pourpre”, but “Peau de Bete” in particular is more mysteriously not been talked about since it was out! weird!
m.a.k.s.i.m – :
a horse walks into a bar…
hard to describe, like LM Hard Leather, but without the “palmolive” sweet musk, like MKK, but without the “dead ashtray pencil shavings Moscow nightclub armpit” smell …that is replaced by a something more naturally clean and “alive”… no ashtray, no armpit, no dirt… more like “food” smells, like fresh baked bread, salami, and dirty martinis…the sweetness isn’t quite vanilla or tonka, more like hot buttered rum, there is a definite “hair and skin smell” to the leather, maybe a dash of saddle soap to really bring the horse to life… like all good fragrances, it won’t smell like you have something “ON you”, so much as people might assume this is just how you smell, as it somehow shares the right amount of “human” notes to overlap…..yes, weak sillage, but so cozy and purring, it is not meant to be a shout
NASTLESHNA – :
A bitter sweet fragrance. Dry spices. Real leather. Dark Liqueur. Smell like a warm sweet zoo somehow.
Interesting.
Can’t describe more.
Not such great longevity or sillage. Quite weak.