I don't master the art of simplicity! I love complexity and beasts in a bottle. There's never enough raw musk, animalics and smoke!
My ideal scent incorporates incense, gasoline, dark vanilla, tonka, rum, musk, patchouli, almond liqueur, smoke and leather. I dislike roses, ylang, fresh and sweet light scents. If there is a fresh note present, a dirty animalic or heavy note should balance it out: bergamot and smoke, for example, or lemongrass with a marine note. I wish I could create my own fragrances; I wish I was the nose working for an independent fragrance house!
I wear heavily animalic, rum-adorned scents, regardless of weather or time of the year. Some may say animal scents are for mature people, but I've loved them since age 12. I am fondly attracted (addicted) to leather, gasoline (benzene) and oudh notes.
My all-time favorites are:
* Percival (Parfums de Marly);
* Habdan (PdM);
* Oriental Express (Thierry Mugler);
* 40 knots (a nautical-themed scent by Xerjoff);
* Black Phantom (Kilian);
* Oajan (PdM);
* Black (Comme des Garcons);
* Falcon Leather extrait (Matiere Premiere);
* Vanille Havane (Les Indemodables).
Fragrances I want are:
* Solstice "Midnight Marquee" (a gasoline perfume);
* Profundum "Martyr" (another fire-and-gasoline, of course);
* Bortnikoff "Lao Oud" (for being a realistic oudh);
* Barre "Smoulder" (smells like fire);
* Rubini "Nuvolari" (gasoline, motor oil and asphalt! What could I wish for more!)
Oriental Express has been discontinued, sadly.
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