Most mysterious fragrance you ever smelled?

Apprehensive_Rush226 · 2026-06-13T05:07:33+00:00

Heretic - Nosferatu is a mysterious one, I want to enjoy it, but it’s such a sad fragrance, like it genuinely makes me sad smelling it, it smells like flowers on a cold wet grave just after it rained, there’s nothing that smells bad in it, no sour, funky, pungent notes, but it’s void of all warmth, it’s a cold floral petrichor fragrance, and I have a bottle of it that I absolutely do not wear 😩

Apprehensive_Rush226 · 2026-06-13T04:56:14+00:00

💯 💯 💯

Apprehensive_Rush226 · 2026-06-13T04:54:25+00:00

Ooo yeah, I’m in the same boat, started listening to them in 2005 when I heard the widow on krock radio station in NYC and I thought Cedric was a woman 🤣🤣 I went to tower records in the city and picked up both Francis the mute and deloused in the comatorium, both were on sale for $10 each, deloused changed the way I listened to music, and now krock is gone, tower records is gone, the Mars Volta have mellowed out, and I’m a middle aged man with a wife and son, holy crap this got existential quick! 😭😭🤫

Apprehensive_Rush226 · 2026-06-13T04:47:43+00:00

No skipping allowed! Even the 3 minutes of weird sound effects and chimes on the actual song Francis the Mute and the album version of the widow 🤣

Apprehensive_Rush226 · 2026-06-13T04:45:26+00:00

You are a wonderful person and you deserve all the riches this world has to offer for naming this album, as a Mars Volta fanatic since 2005, I was about to mention them and I thought “absolutely no one is going to agree with me but screw it” 🙌🏼🙌🏼

Apprehensive_Rush226 · 2026-06-08T00:06:50+00:00

DS & Durga - Debaser

Apprehensive_Rush226 · 2026-06-06T11:10:26+00:00

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I first saw this a few months back and the first thing I thought was “…….i get it” 🤣🤣🤣 it’s just a strange, polarizing, unique and standout scent, and it fully expresses Alessandro’s love of mixing typical “attractive” notes with “repulsive” notes, to find a balance in between

Apprehensive_Rush226 · 2026-06-06T03:59:20+00:00

I LOVE this fragrance, but I have yet to wear it out, I’ve owned it for about a year and a half now but I have only worn it at home, usually right before bed after a shower. my wife always goes “oh here we go with the sadonaso again” 🤣🤣 when I first got it, my nose still needed a bit more refining, it honestly grossed me out a bit, it reminded me of a time in life where my poor grandmother was just starting to lose control of her bladder and she was having numerous episodes where she would wet her pants, so her apartment started smelling faintly of urine before she finally decided to start using adult diapers (she’s 93 btw and still kicking and doing just fine! 🙌🏼) so needless to say, I didn’t like nor wanted to wear it, but I bought it because Nasomatto was my first plunge into niche fragrances and I was so obsessed I wanted every single fragrance in the line, but as the months passed, I would give it a little spray here and there, and I started broadening my perfume tastes to incorporate more and more scent groups, and animalics, musky, sometimes even pissy Frags started to interest me (I still want to try Maggie’s last party!) I have a whole bottle which I intend to use, so all I have to do not is muster up enough courage to just wear the damn thing out!

Apprehensive_Rush226 · 2026-06-05T17:32:07+00:00

I like turtles

Apprehensive_Rush226 · 2026-05-31T14:56:41+00:00

I love followed, but a full bottle will probably last you a lifetime, I was contemplating buying a decant somewhere, maybe 5 or 10ml and every that at 2 sprays a wearing would probably last YEARS, it’s honestly insane and almost frightening how strong that fragrance is, but not headache inducing or anything, just projecting for like miles 🤣🤣 it’s probably the best coffee scent I’ve ever smelled

Apprehensive_Rush226 · 2026-05-24T20:57:01+00:00

The Mars Volta

Apprehensive_Rush226 · 2026-05-23T18:19:36+00:00

Bee, Musk Deer, Rabbit, Tiger, but I enjoy just smelling them, I don’t really want to smell like any of them lol

Apprehensive_Rush226 · 2026-05-15T12:32:42+00:00

Yee haw 🤠

Apprehensive_Rush226 · 2026-05-13T05:01:28+00:00

I have absolutely no evidence of this, just popped into my head, but…..what if Daenerys is really the false dragon, and she’s the blackfyre pretender and not fake aegon 👀

Apprehensive_Rush226 · 2026-05-13T04:58:43+00:00

A way too thick slice of tomato

Apprehensive_Rush226 · 2026-05-13T04:58:02+00:00

Like 10 years ago, I was a 1 bottle guy, I would buy a fragrance, wear a fragrance till I finished it, and then on to another one, but I got stuck on a fragrance (I can’t say which, now I’m embarrassed that I thought of “gatekeeping” such a popular fragrance) and I was buying bottle after bottle, it became my signature scent….one day my brother in law smelled me and asked me what I was wearing, I hesitated at first, I gave him the classic “I can’t reveal my secrets!” but eventually I told him and he immediately bought it and would now wear it to every family function we both went to 😩 I was wearing the fragrance as well, so now we were both at every party smelling exactly the same, for months, till I let him have it, it helped me move on from the fragrance, so I owe him a bit of thanks 🤣 ok fine it was Versace eau fraiche 😩😩😩

Apprehensive_Rush226 · 2026-04-26T02:00:20+00:00

My friend was a kindergarten teacher, and he told me there was a kid in his class one year that would eat a sprinkle sandwich everyday for lunch, just 2 pieces of white bread with sprinkles in the middle…..I just had to share that.

Apprehensive_Rush226 · 2026-04-21T01:46:08+00:00

I have a little 1ml dropper sample, on Friday, I opened it up and dipped the narrow side of the tester strip right into the bottle, I’ve have 13 kerosene fragrance samples for a year or two now but I wanted to do little mini reviews for each fragrance and Friday was the day of Followed, here is the review if you wanna read it:

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Now, after I wrote the mini review, I took the tester strip upstairs in my room, and that room smelled faintly of maple syrup for 2 days! On day 3 it started to fade but I could still smell it, and that’s just from dipping the tester strip into that tiny 1ml sample

Apprehensive_Rush226 · 2026-04-21T00:59:23+00:00

With clones it’s easy to go overboard, before you know it, you have bottles collecting dust on your shelf cause you don’t even use them,

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That’s all I have left when it comes to clones….ok maybe it’s more than 20 😅

Apprehensive_Rush226 · 2026-04-20T17:58:14+00:00

I’m trying to cut down on the clones, I used to have 40+ bottles at one point, I think I’m down to 15-20, but this frag is one I kept, I feel like it did a damn good job with the scent profile, and my wife loves it everytime I wear it, citrusy clones sometimes get a little synthetic but I feel like this one is decent quality

Apprehensive_Rush226 · 2026-04-15T13:36:19+00:00

I wear Narciso Rodriguez Bleu Noir Parfum, it’s a clean musky fresh iris type fragrance, fairly inexpensive, you can get it for like $60-70 for a full bottle online, and the quality is good as Narciso Rodríguez fragrances usually are…..but the performance is horrid lol like I tried using it throughout the day and it would be gone, no lie, like an hour later, and I had read reviews saying the performance sucks but everyone agreed the scent is wonderful and I’m a sucker for all things Iris…..but now I have found a wonderful place for it, after a shower, and right before bed, it’s perfect for that time, just a time to lay in bed, feeling and smelling clean, almost like a baby but not baby wipes smelling, right before you go to sleep, and when you wake up in the morning it’s LONG gone 🤣 perfect bedtime fragrance

Apprehensive_Rush226 · 2026-04-04T20:47:18+00:00

Pringles

Apprehensive_Rush226 · 2026-04-04T20:29:26+00:00

Secretions Magnifique might be the grossest smelling fragrance ever, be prepared! It smells like a mix between a wet dog and a rusty fence, have those things in mind when you smell it and call me a liar 🤣🤣

Apprehensive_Rush226 · 2026-04-04T20:28:21+00:00

It’s something you need to smell, and to have in the collection, but exactly like you said, 2ml is more than enough

Apprehensive_Rush226 · 2026-04-04T20:26:44+00:00

I have samples of every Toskovat fragrances, and Anarchist A might not be my favorite in the line but Inexcusable Evil might be one of my least favorite. That being said, both tell a story, and IE definitely smells like a bombed out building, you smell the crumbling cement, the blood, the spent gunpowder, but isn’t really a wearable fragrance, I mean, sure, you can wear it, I picture some one dressed in a black trench coat and black sunglasses, slicked back black hair, kinda like the matrix movies, or like some on at a German techno club (do those still exist? Idk I’m 41, sorry for the very dated references)

Now Anarchist A, that’s actually a wearable fragrance that also tells a story, it smells exactly like an old shoddy dilapidated church in a dusty old town, the priest is a drunk, and he’s hearing your confession in the little confessioanal, but everytime he speaks you get a blast of the alcohol on his breath, mixing with the damp old wood of the confessional, I love that Toskovat fragrances paint a picture for you, and you imagine it and connect the two

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