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Илья 1982 – :
has this been discontinued?
nut66 – :
This opens all bright lime and citrus, fizzy or sherbet-like. It dries down to a resinous, peppery, woody (almost musky as there is a haziness about the settling of it on your skin) It smells like an inverted/upside down Habit Rouge. They have the same scent profile, this more thick and opaque, HR more transluscent. Projection is good, even in solid form. It is a bizarre scent, very “filling”, but very wearable and it is pretty sweet, but not candyfloss sweet. Has a slightly powdery finish. All in all a thumbs up, I am never disappointed with Lush.
The cypress and black locust notes need to be replaced with juniper and cassia (the other cinnamon).
zoro256 – :
Citrus oils, herbs and vanilla…
What an interesting perfume! I really love these kinds of creations by Lush. I can tell that the ingredients here are of a high quality. The neroli oil here is bright and very zesty! As is the petitgrain and juniper, this gives a very sharp top and middle that shines like bright sunlight on a summer’s day at the beach. Then there is a background of sandalwood and vanilla to give depth and round it off with character.
In a nutshell, the whole perfume screams “Fun”! I am not disappointed by this one and I enjoy wearing it. It’s almost like a 1960’s feature in technicolor. I see what Simon Constantine was goign for when he mentioned the smell of “Lemon Sherbets”, a boiled lemon and sugar sweet which is very zesty and bright. The development into the vanilla drydown phase is welcome and adds a further gourmand, sweeter aspect in the vein of Guerlain – Shalimar. In fact, there is more than a passing resemblance to that perfume here, except here the citrus has been turned up to full volume, and the vanilla is a background player.
Overall, I highly recommend this fragrance as a bright, positive and uplifting (yet artificial) experience. I say this because this is not a perfume that is imitating nature, but rather man-made wonders, like electricity, pop music and technology. Things which give us joy but which we created, for ourselves. Still, it gives me a kick wearing this quirky perfume. Great stuff!
Mikky31 – :
This is one limey bastard! I don’t know what circus/theme parks are like in Britain, but this product doesn’t smell like an American one. “Superworld Unknown” is really weird and the product keeps changing the longer I’ve had it. I never got much of the sweet candy scent mentioned, to me it was just mainly lime, and a soft, sweetish, masculine powdery wood smell.
Very unusual fragrance. Weird in the same way “B Scent” is. Not unpleasant, just weird.
Edit: Oh my gosh, I feel bad for giving this such a wishywashy review on the Lush website! My solid has aged amazingly! So much so I had to hunt down the liquid on ebay, and amazingly, was lucky for once in my life and acquired some!
Lush definitely has a way of making your sense of smell evolve. I was so mad initially that this didn’t smell like a sibling of Snow Fairy, but I can appreciate it so much more now. It’s definitely the older, more sophisticated sibling!
If you do a bath cocktail of Creamy Candy bubblebar, Enchanter bathbomb, and Happy Thoughts bath melt you get an approximation of Superworld Unknown. In my opinion, anyway! 😉
matanastasia – :
You know those girls in Harajuku who dress like life-sized creepy dolls? Imagine a perfume for one of them who has come to her senses, lost patience with the excessive daily grooming, and decided to get a degree in botany. This is her perfume.
First off I get lime and a slightly yeasty smell, then a mild woody rose and a creamy lemon, which is a nice trick if you can do it. The biggest and nicest surprise was the next phase, which was strawberry. Yeasty bread dough strawberry! How do you not love that? Very decent longevity with a dry down of greenish powder.
Our girl wears this when she’s taking a night off from her Latin binomials to go out and drink beer with her friends.
trialex – :
This smells like lime candy sweets! Very sweet and somewhat ‘fizzy’ to me, a good scent for youthful personalities of all ages.
dvser – :
Lush perfumes are very subjective to the wearer’s chemistry. I only like this on me on certain days. When it’s right, the cacao and fizzy fruit remind me of Thierry Mugler’s Angel, only less complex. When it’s bad, it’s synthetic and plastic.
antoniontibeta – :
It smells like medicine. Blind bought and really regret it. This is not a fragrance !!! It’s like herbs in oil …. and so masculine
SAVO – :
Lush Superworld Unknown is easily one of my favourites from the Lush exclusives range. It features a beautiful, crisp lime accord, further complimented by some unexpected warm and balmy notes.
You’ve got to love this fragrance’s unique approach. It opens with a sweet citrus blast, however the drydown consisting of benzoin, vanilla, tonka bean and sandalwood takes this fragrance in a totally different direction. Superworld Unknown is a relatively smooth blend of ingredients, one that strikes me as being more warm than fresh.
It is indeed a unisex fragrance, however on my skin it smells quite feminine. For a Lush scent, Superworld Unknown is surprisingly soft, not a sillage bomb in any shape or form. In other words, it’s very easy to wear.
The rose, ylang ylang and black locust accords are fairly non-existent on my skin. Superworld Unknown smells predominantly of green citrus and spicy-sweet woods and resins.
Superworld Unknown lasts for around six hours on my skin, and has light projection. It’s one scent from the exclusive Lush series that I keep going back to. Great for all seasons and a pleasant composition overall. I do recommend.
cirkul – :
Simon Constantine, Lush perfumer who created Superworld Unknown wrote “If running away to join the circus smells of something good, this is it. The smell of candy floss, sherbet fountains, toffee apples and the seaside, yet it’s also sophisticated… escapist perfumery really”.
Superworld unknown is inspired by- and named after an album by a swedish singer Karin Park who wrote the song for “someone who had lost a loved one, to get them out of bed and make them see the world as a wonderful place again.”
Now about the perfume. Main notes include cocoa, vanilla, tonka, cassie, juniper, petitgrain, neroli, lime, lemon, bergamot, rose, ylang ylang, bensoin and sandalwood. Sounds like a mishmash, but it’s truly something beautiful. There’s some tension between bright citrussy notes and warmer notes like cocoa, vanilla and bensoin. There’s also something sea-salty and unusual. And wafts of flowers (although not very obvious). With some powdery comfort in the drydown. Somehow it all works beautifully, as in a composition of contrasts that cooperate very well. The result is a fun and imaginative scent- that reminds me of carnivals, fall festivals and Alice in Wonderland (Superworld unknown could have been easily named “Madhatter teaparty” or “Carnival”).
This fragrance also reminds me of The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, a bittersweet and very colourful movie about a traveling theater company, filled with most amazing fantasy and whimsy, where the line between dreams and reality is nearly non-existent. So this is an unusual fragrance that brings to mind all these colourful and playful images of naive art and surrealism.
But it’s not at all difficult or complicated or too busy to wear. It’s all the happy things everyone is familiar with. Not at all an unknown world, but maybe unspoken of, hidden in our childhood memories. It’s nostalgic and dreamy. Bright and hopeful, but also warm and comforting. Fresh and juicy, but also sweet and earthy. Those of you looking for a fragrance to capture that typical carnival mood, look no further. Like I said, Superworld Uknown is all the happy things! 🙂
Togliatti – :
Smells exactly like avon’s soft pink bubble bath.
No other description required 🙂
Mewsd181JeomiWogkig – :
Lush SUPERWORLDUNKNOWN has the same strong citrus oil facet as most of the other perfumes of this line. Fortunately, it is tempered and tamed here by the presence of sweet notes, including cocoa, but also tonka or vanilla, it seems to me. These sweet elements help to smooth out the rough edges of the citrus oil, which I personally find pretty difficult to wear as a straight-up perfume. I have a large sample set of the Lush perfumes which I’ve been slowly meandering through, trying to be as fair to them as possible in reviews, but I have to confess that I only test them when I have a bath on the horizon. They’re just too intense!
Never one to complain about excellent longevity and mega-sillage, the problem I find with the Lush citrus oils and base is that they seep into one’s pores and all the way into the marrow of one’s bones. Well, that’s how they feel anyway. In my experience, the only other house with perfumes as penetrating as these may be Serge Lutens. My sense, however, is that the Lutens perfumes have been much more thoughtfully composed. It may be that I am prejudiced against this whole flurry of 2010-2011 Lush multi-launches, but I do find them pretty difficult to take seriously as perfumes. To be perfectly frank (quoi d’autre?) I am not even impressed with the alleged masterpiece of this house, BREATH OF GOD, and I felt vindicated somewhat to learn that it was the perfumer’s very first perfume! Well, that’s another story…
Back to SUPERWORLDUNKNOWN. Here we have the Lush base plus the Lush citrus accords with their usual frontal assault on olfactory receptors, but then the cocoa-tonka (or whatever) sweeps in like a deus ex machina to save the whole composition from disaster by muting the nosehair-singing effect of the citrus oils. Those listed among the ingredients of this particular perfume are lemon, lime, and neroli oil. Rose absolute is listed way down in the list somewhere, and thankfully this composition does not appear to contain the killer lemongrass oil favored by this perfumer.
The overall effect gestures toward gourmand territory and might call to mind vague memories of the house of Lolita Lempicka, but the Lush base abides like a fingerprint, marking this perfume as a Simon Constantine creation. Nonetheless, all things considered, this smells pretty good–for the “house” of Lush.
Pivovarov555 – :
I really love lush and their products, but most of the perfumes in the gorilla line are just too strange to wear. Superworld unknown is one of them. It make me nauseatic. Honestly. It’s an odd mix of benzoin, bug repellent and herbs in my opinion. As others have stated, it has nothing to do with candy floss, and candy floss is what i had hoped for. The only lush fragrances i enjoy are Vanillary and Imogen Rose. I love love love the smell of American Cream though! Wish it was a regular perfume in the line, not such an exclusive forum potion.
rokin3 – :
This is s strange, but not wholly unpleasant scent. Starts out pine/citrus fresh, like a cleaner or a bug repellent, but morphs into something more like fruity sweets/bubblegum. Nice, but not something I’d wear very often.
vlaad – :
I have to write a new review for this one.
It smells very medicinal, not feminine…smells like pine and a bit Jean Nate, and it is NOT what I remember! Not what I thought it would be!!
I am NOT sure which Lush product a had before, maybe Karma?
Superworld Unknown does NOT work for me.
WAY too odd. Superweird Unknown.
Kena22 – :
This is quite a unique smell. It’s very hard to describe, but for me, it smells initially of lime and citrus, but then it softens into a bit of a sweet and sandalwood-y scent. The website describes it as “candy-floss”, but I think that’s misleading because it’s not really that sweet. It’s slightly sweet, but not like sugar. The scent to me is quite effervescent, if that makes sense. It’s like 7-Up meets sandalwood. Ok, that sounds weird, but it’s hard to describe. Let’s just say, it works. It smells like nothing I have ever smelled in my life. I really do like it. I was excited to finally get my hands on some since I live in the USA.
EDIT:
I’ve realized two things about this scent:
1.) It really does grow on you after a while
2.) It could really be unisex