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SoroExorsesax – :
And there you go: a straight-up animalic musk, with civet predominating. Those who have sampled real civet, castoreum, ambergris, hyrcium, etc., will not be alarmed at all by this: it’s just that pure, dusky animal pheromone, and yes, slightly fecal, but the other ingredients here– delicately floral, aromatic, woody– smooth it out into something just wonderful. My first thought on smelling it is: Guerlain. The notes of #8 are very much like the foundations of MITSOUKO, SHALIMAR, L’HEURE BLEUE, JICKY, SAMSARA, et.al. Or like the base of Rochas FEMME. In short, what you’re smelling here in #8 is a very old, venerable accord from history’s greatest perfumes. It’s marvelous, ultra-glam, ultra-Old World perfumery. Note that #8 has very low sillage, and hugs the skin tightly… like a suggestive animal purr. the ultimate perfume for your Little Black Dress or black leather aviator’s jacket. Easily unisex. Best, probably, for autumn and winter wear. Would make a superb blender for any floral or oriental. I want a full bottle, please!
Aerohoplenerikuz – :
As a lover of florals or animalics I knew this one would be a winner and it did not disappoint. I know that it is supposed to contain civet. I small a huge amount of synthetic civetone and synthetic white musks as well as leather, tobacco. The jonquil provides just enough sweetness to contrast the bitter civetone. Natural civet has a very sweet fecal smell that this perfume lacks so this is why I believe it to contain civetone rather than natural civet tincture or absolute. The musk in it is very nice and powerful. It even reminds me a bit of some of the musk ketones and nitro musks that I have in my perfumer’s organ. It is a long lasting oil that is not overpowering at all, in fact, sometimes it seems to stay very close to the skin and not project out much at all but then out of nowhere I will smell it, so I believe it must have better sillage than I think, but maybe it is a smell my nose gets nose blind to rather quickly. But to me this is a wonderful perfume for anyone who likes to get down and dirty with the animals and it not afraid to get dirty and smell like it.
melv – :
Mmmm – skank-o-rama – I love it! Comments have ranged from “lush” to “that smells like sh*t”. I have used it solo (my preferred medium!) and layered it under Knize 10, Narciso’s Musc pour homme parfum, Guerlain’s Heritage and Mancera’s The Aoud – all to very good effect. If you aren’t afraid of pushing those (olfactory) boundaries, then give it a go!
Gomosapians – :
Leonesio should rename this juice Cavity Check. It’s a pretty accurate representation, dental OR rectal.
arq220intitytek – :
Dear Lord, this is one seriously animalic ‘fume. Upon applying I was taken back to the first time I tried Muscs Koublai Khan and the way it made other purportedly raunchy perfumes seem cute in comparison. Nowadays, with MKK being a fragrance I wear regularly, something of a desensitization has happened to me, and it took a perfume as raw and musky as our feral furry friend No. 8 here to get that same reaction out of me. Musk and civet absolutely dominate the opening, with notes of brand new leather, narcissus, and fleshy white flowers just barely poking through the animalic haze that floats above a base of (actually rather inoffensive) oud like a thick, low cloud.
The oud note here reminds me quite a bit of the smoke from Nippon Kodo’s Morning Star aloeswood incense, which is to say it isn’t a harsh oud like that which you’d find in Tom Ford’s Oud Wood or the general category of Arabian perfumes, but a rather tame, lighter oud. The oud is just about the only thing tame about No. 8, though; the animalic notes don’t become any less prevalent and they seem to bloom as the perfume oil permeates and blends with the oils from your skin.
As far as I can tell, all the notes are base notes. It’s as if somebody took MKK or Parfum d’Empire’s Musc Tonkin and stripped them of any florals, spices, and ambery/powdery sweetness, then took the remaining fragrance and distilled it down to a strong concentrate. Though, as strongly scented as this oil is, it doesn’t project very far and just sort of hovers over the skin, something that musk-heavy fragrances share in common in my experience. This, compounded with the fragrance being composed solely of base notes, means that nobody other than yourself and whomever may be within intimate distance is going to pick up on the scent.
Heady stuff. Fans of hyper-animalic fragrances will be pleased, anyone expecting sharp, dirty oud will be disappointed. If you find Bal a Versailles or MKK to be too much, then this isn’t for you. This smells different on everybody, so use common sense and try before you buy.
A large feline, though not one which is kingly or majestic like a lion, but instead a beast more akin to a knight-errant, drying off upon a rock in the summer sun after a visit to the watering hole, its own imposing scent just barely perfumed by the local flora and carried off by the warm breeze, all the while baring its teeth, growling at the onlooker.
the Knight of Swords card made fragrance
alsatian – :
After all these reviews I was really prepared to smell something, well, amazing. So I get to the Scent Bar in Los Angeles, where they have a bottle. A paper strip is dipped in and handed to me. With some wariness I raise it to my nose and… nothing. I can smell nothing. What’s going on, here? So I give the strip to my wife. She, too, smells nothing. The sales assistant sniffs – nothing. Is this a joke?
Алехандро – :
Brent:
God Bless ya, man. I just liberally slathered the whole 8ml bottle all over my hands, chest and goatee and it’s off to a night of speed dating. ; )
I’ll let you know the results.
grigoriy0307 – :
I purchased my sample of this about six months ago and only today have I worked up the gumption to give it a try. I have to say that some previous reviews gave me a fright, and I daubed the juice on a paper a couple of times and it did smell poo-ey, so that stopped me cold in my tracks.
Today, though, I have a different perspective on what I was smelling as a poop sort of smell. In 1985, I worked at a business next to a Chinese shop, and I would go buy things like tea and soap there. At that time, I think I was one of the few non-Asians to shop there, and they always seemed so pleased to see me. One soap I bought was jasmine, and the fragrance was so overwhelming that it was almost poop-like, and I couldn’t bring myself to use it. This perfume reminds me of that experience – the shop with the strange scents that smelled almost repugnant to me, yet were fascinatingly exotic and outside my usual experience, and a soap with such a strong flower scent that it was difficult for me understand. It’s that indolic thing with certain flowers, and the Narcissus is throwing that stuff down in spades in No. 8.
This is very intense, and I’ll see how this settles after longer wear, but I think I won’t want to wear this around other people. For now, if I close my eyes and just breathe it in, I smell overwhelming flower with leather and civet, and it’s intense, but it’s a flower, not poop.
UPDATE – the references to tooth decay and mothballs are not off-base- this does seem an abstraction of those types of scents, but not so off-putting, more just interesting. I’m so glad that I was able to delve into this, but it will not be on my list of favorites, as it never seemed to move beyond the very startling opening stage for me. I am glad I’ve tried this, and it may be one that is quite dependent upon qualities of one’s own chemistry.
If I describe this fragrance in one word, it would be “challenging”, but seeing some whose noses I respect wax lyrical on this beast of a perfume, I would not dismiss it. It’s a difficult thing to not just succumb to the first flash of perception and declare a final ruling on something – I’m glad I tried this on my skin. I’d like to smell this on someone else and see if other qualities emerge, but it never tipped over into the realm of what I consider happy-making, which is really what I want from a fragrance.
MashaUdalova – :
Unwashed sex toy is an almost apt description- I would take it a step farther to “crusty, never been washed, heavily used by an unshowered individual sex toy”. Could not get this away from my nose fast enough. I feel like if the stereotypical unkempt, greasy haired, Cheeto powder stained wife beater wearing mullet having, oral hygiene lacking roofie having molester had a scent, this would be it. Vile, vile. Only fragrance to have ever turned my stomach.
OVODSV – :
This is the most vile smelling fragrance I’ve ever encountered. Yes, as already mentioned, this is tooth decay, bad breath, and bad underwear all rolled into one. Why in the hell would anyone want to smell like this?
jeff.82 – :
I wish I had experienced what others describe here. I am a fan of animalic, skanky fragrances and don’t normally shy away from them. (I love: MKK, Jicky EDP, L’air de Rien, Bal a Versailles, etc.) But this one went beyond animalic into downright funky territory.
It didn’t smell sexual or a like a human body on me. It smelled like an infected tooth, or like when someone gets their ear piercings stretched and doesn’t clean them properly. Basically, I smelled rotting and decay, not bodily intimacy. Too bad, as I wanted to be friends with this one.
ахрютка – :
Yesterday I was in a lift and the doors opened and a man entered. He was early 60’s, slightly unkempt with unwashed hair. It was late in afternoon and the day had been hot. By his attire, he was a working man who had been outdoors all day. His odor was pungent and I tried to dissect what I was smelling. From him emanated a strong musk odor that becomes stronger as males age. Mingled into that was the smell of human sweat that had been sitting on his body for the better part of the day and this was overlaid by the hint of the cigarettes he had no doubt been smoking during his breaks, now stale with the passing of time.
His smell was powerful and I was embarrassed by it. Not because it was offensive, but because it was somehow so intimate. It told his story and revealed so much to me about him.
This is what Untitled No 8 smells like.
serj006 – :
This reminds me of those cozy, smoky lounges back in the 70’s. Dimly-lit, walls carpeted, comfortable upholstery. Yes, the languid gasp of a daffodil is the sharpest knife in this drawer- come closer… Wow- my cats really dig me when I’m wearing this! The possibilities are endless tonight. Aren’t these little bottles the cutest!?
This actually smells like a guy’s taint.
Lee123 – :
I could not wash this off fast enough. It literally made me feel sick. Smelled to me like the water in a vase when you’ve left the flowers in it way, way too long. Or, I’m sorry to say, a toilet, with just a hint of suffocating white florals. Perhaps it settles into something more pleasant later, but I just could not wait around for that. I don’t mean to be rude–I’m just stressing that this is my experience. I am endlessly fascinated at how different people react to scents.
postmaster24 – :
All base notes, but some very nice ones I might add. This isn’t as loud or penetrating as the more prominent animalic scents in the fragrance world, but it proves to be a contender for most skanky skin scent in the realm of oils. Supposedly containing “feral” musk, narcissus, civet, oud and leather – it’s not nearly as brash out of the bottle as it might sound. However, give it some time and body heat and it will give you a dangerously sexy aura and is fabulous on its own and used synergistically with other similar fragrances. For example, it’s amazing when barely (really, barely) spritzed with some Kouros or Shalimar – adds some of the backbone that got removed due to IFRA nonsense. It can also secure and reign-in floral musks, like Bal a Versailles, Knowing and Fleur de Cabotine. It even works beautifully with vintage Femme PDT.
I’ll add more/edit this later, but wearing it this evening over my work-a-day expired Teck and Tonka, it gives the weakened oriental the gleam of a black panther stalking its prey. Perfect for going out for cocktails tonight – and for the “tail” that will hopefully follow!
саша789 – :
Unwashed body that hasn’t “soured” (I wouldn’t call it “body odor”, just unwashed body). I LOVE IT. It is definitely a step beyond MKK. It smells like people who have been out at the beach all day, and have returned to their cabin which has it’s windows open, salty ocean wind blowing through and stroking sun-soaked skin that’s been deeply tanned (or even burned a little bit). These people are lovin each other and the day. It reminds me of the air on the Adriatic sea that blows over salty skin, Yum.