The first time I smelled this perfume I assumed it was a joke. Indolic Horror. A mothballing Eros/ Thanatos: overwhelming and oversaturated in/ with itself. Vile, even.
Now it is definitely in my Top Ten. If not my Top Five. I cannot live without it. Only this perfume rushes to fill the void on a Hot Summer’s Night – I spray it on my body and underclothes and go into some kind of ecstatic sweat trance; it physically stains the skin and clothes red – see frequent complaints online – so beware – but I don’t care, and enter a very particular, deep-breathed space away from daily refrigeration where everything feels hot-blooded and Real.
A stupidly rich, and extremely intoxicating, Pakistani jasmine absolute : rich ! filthy ! is cradled with ylang ylang and rose oils in the offset of this perfume but neither is perceptible as such : these essences are merely there to exalt the JASMINE, glorious !which is bolstered cleverly in the base by clovey sandalwood and vanilla – and which on me – D has just confirmed this – smells quite fantastic
I too Lust for Lust but wear it rarely. It is a private pleasure as DH finds it morbidly mothbally. There again his interpretation of stargazer lilies is filthy men’s public toilets & elderly flesh yet he’s anosmic to roast dinners, hawthorn flowers & the wonderful smell of gardens after sunset in summer.
I have been wearing almost nothing else – hence the lack of posts. Lust is definitely ‘morbidly mothbally’ from some angles but from others just gorgeous. And I agree with your DH about stargazers – they are growing wild everywhere at the moment and I sometimes pick them and then regret the almost seminal undertones. I hope he can at least taste the roast dinners!
He’s a quantity over quality man when it comes to food. Not at all fussy
People said it has been reformulated to be a lot less indolic? I don’t know if its true or I just like mothballs and dirty scents too much
NOOOOOOOO
I really hope that isn’t the case because I need another bottle.
Having said that perhaps my bottle was already a reformulation ? I do remember a shocking sense of indoles the first time I smelled it
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