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pocketvenuslux · 1 year
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I’ve been meaning to review Bruno Fazzolari’s scents for some time. I think it’s been years as the house has since rebranded as Fzotic and redesigned its bottles, which look fantastic. I seem to recall the Fzotics reviewed very well but I was not so personally enamoured with them. However, in today’s climate of outrageously inflated pricing in the fragrance market, these scents have taken on a new light. Assuming they have not had any major reformulations, at US$130/30 ml, they represent good quality for the price and perform well.
Five is a pleasant and balanced citrus herbal scent that is the easiest to wear of the set. The hespiridic opening is assertive but never aggressive while rosemary lends it a bit of herbaceous, woody depth. The neroli and a spicy petitgrain soften the scent on the dry down. It’s a bit too reminiscent of Irish Spring soap bars for me to enjoy.
Monserrat is another easy-wearing fruity floral. Opens with a bright grapefruit that mellows out with musky florals and a subtly tart apricot. The dry down is a bit denser that I would like and I think that’s the “plaster” note. Having said that, I prefer this kind of density over a fluffy musk and it gives the scent an unexpected bit of heft.
Lampblack opens innocuously with zesty, carefree citrus notes and a light touch of vetiver which might give you the impression this is a nondescript freshie. However, as the scent develops, the smoke starts to enter, building until it’s transformed from bright and clean to standing on blistering hot tarmac. After a couple hours, the aggression tones down and the grapefruit appears, as if charred. A creative take on the cliched smoky genre.
Room 237 is not nearly as eerie as its ad copy suggests. Having said that, I don’t find it to be an easy wear. In addition to vinyl, I’m reminded of household cleaners, or the smell of barbacide, that blue-hued disinfectant you find in hair salons where stylists store their combs. As the scent dries down, the scent’s initial artificiality becomes more human with musky notes emerging from below. More of a niche experiment than something one would wear.
Ummagumma is a rich and spicy chocolate gourmand flavoured with woods and resins. While it’s not particularly creative, it’s perfectly balanced and unlike other chocolates, it’s never overbearing, harsh or overly sweet and does not veer into coffee/toffee territory. An easy, comforting wear that I would consider a staple in this genre. It’s probably my favourite of the set.
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odoroussavourssweet · 8 months
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Fzotic Ummagumma
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Fzotic Ummagumma
Nose: Bruno Fazzolari
notes: dark chocolate, saffron, carnation; labdanum, tobacco, leather, sandalwood; olibanum, cedar, vanilla, tonka
Ummagumma is a rich, dark, sweet contraption with an unusually salty-animalic underlayer. Yes, there’s chocolate in the opening, but it’s not dominant; Ummagumma is all dark resins and woods and leather and tobacco, with that little thread of salty gold at the heart.
@noseandnous had a great mental image of Ummagumma as an stray cat brought into a cozy book-lined study and fed sardines. all the tropes are there (the dark wood paneling; the leather armchair; the crackling fireplace) but Ummagumma is saltier, furrier, and wilder than you’d expect from the usual “Dad’s study” sort of Oriental.
By about 2 hours in, Ummagumma transforms completely. It’s shifted to a warm reddish-brown spicy incense base, almost like cinnamon candy, or like the spicy incense of Lita, but here it has a wild, roaring, crackling texture. It feels like flame and booming drums, like some kind of crazed Samhain bonfire dance. We’re not in the cozy study anymore; we’re rocking out, and the thunder is rolling in.
This fiery incense phase is extremely potent — it lasts at least 18 hours, sending up tendrils of warming spice all day long.
I’ve encountered Ummagumma’s satisfying salty-gold-animalic chord in a couple other rich dark indie perfumes: Pryn Taiga is salty-gold + pine-sap leather, and Slumberhouse Sova is salty-gold + cloves.
Ummagumma is in the same rough, potent indie style as Taiga and Sova, but more multifaceted and chaotic than the other two; it’s salty-gold AND dark resins AND chocolate AND spice. Is it a hot mess or a reckless delight? I’m still not sure.
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secret-third-thing · 6 months
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I see you are a perfumer! What’s a good advice to give someone with a terrible sense of smell and by that I mean I smell a perfume and all I can say is that it smells like the label. I don’t understand what it means to detect differences in cheap perfume, good perfume, also the titles— if they’re even realistic. Basically Ive never picked up a perfume I genuinely liked above all the others because it just all becomes one big blend of good smell (I hardly find bad ones)
AH I could write you a full paper on this or make a ppt, but I will try to keep things short. The truth of the matter is that perfumers actually have to train their nose to smell the different individual scents making up a fragrance so it's normal/expected that it's hard to figure out specifics without doing a looooot of intentional sniffing of your own. For my class, I spent so much time memorizing scents LOL and I'm nowhere near what I'd need to be to be considered for a proper degree in it lol.
In general, I encourage folks to figure out what scent family and or vibes that you like. (Here's a link that goes into depth) or just use this over generalized list:
Florals - Rose, Lillies, Ylang Ylang
Fruity - Pear, Orange, Apples
Fresh - Linen, Cotton, "Water"
Gourmands - Chocolate, Vanilla, Coconut, Cake
Woody - Cedar, Pine, Sandalwood
Spicy - Cinnamon, Patchouli (which is also considered woody tbh)
But once you figure out the vibes you like, I would pick a brand at a store (Replica @ Sephora is my fav pick for beginners) and look up the perfumes on Fragrantica. Then see which perfumes fit the vibes you like from above. If you can make the trip in or get your hands on a discovery kit, spritz some onto paper, let it settle and then sniff. Sniff again in 30 min. Write down your thoughts! Only spray your final picks on you- see how they smell after an hour. The base notes will be revealed by then.
A lot of picking out perfume is just trial and error. But once you start narrowing down what you like, you can generally suss out the scents you like. And it's easier to tell the differences between them. Basically the more you do it, the better you get.
Example: At the beginning of my perfume journey I wanted to find something new to year. I love my Mother's Chanel, but wanted something less "perfumey" so I went on fragrantica and looked at the notes ---Rose and Jasmine stood out so I checked out what Replica had and tried out several scents before settling on Lazy Sunday Morning. They smell completely different but it has similar notes that I love (ROSE). I had to shop around a bit to find it and probably wouldn't have picked it up on my own.
Fwiw: If you can tell me things you like (both perfume or bathroom products i.e. shampoos etc) I can give you starting points! I keep a collection of perfume at home so when my friends come over, I can give them suggestions based on vibes or scent families.
ex. I want to smell like a basic bitch candy rose -> Rose Goldea (no hate to this scent; i wear it often)
ex. I want a warm gourmand scent that's unique -> Ummagumma
HOPE THIS HELPS!!!
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lindenattic · 9 months
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have tracked down geoffs perfume website account... i know about 2 niche perfume designers period. and i am so validated to see that not only does he have perfumes from both of them. but one of them is in like. his top 25 most worn perfumes <3
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impishglee · 1 year
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lampblack by fzotic it’s like initially borderline unpleasant bc of the acrid ink smell but i really enjoy the dry down and it lasts FOREVER. i’ve been milking a sample of it for ages bc i only need a few sprays and i can smell it on myself the next day
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machudson · 1 year
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i want my SMELLS
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princessofmissouri · 3 months
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my top 5 2023 perfume releases are
5. i’ll never learn by pearfat parfum
4. hexensalbe by stora skuggan
3. warm bulb by clue perfumery
2. poof! by fzotic
1. butterlily damselfly by 4160 tuesdays. literally has become my new signature scent <3
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qvincvnx · 1 year
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other smell reviews:
etat libre d'orange - ghost in the shell. this smells awesome on me. powdery but not like baby powder; floral but not feminine; citrus but not sharp. really delicate scent.
etat libre d'orange - i am trash. pretty generic citrus scent; it's fine on me but nothing interesting one way or another.
cb i hate perfume - CBMUSK. if you like musk you'll like this. works best to amplify and intensify other smells with faint musk notes, it somehow bass boosts all the other notes in a scent.
FZOTIC - corpse reviver. this smells amazing on first hit but the whisky note ends up mellowing into something treacly and sugary-caramel on my skin after the first few hours in ways i do not like.
FZOTIC - monserrat. really fresh, clean summer scent. smells like sitting in an ornamental garden eating apricots - initially it smells like plaster and green leaves and deepens into a really strong fruity smell. some floral notes (jasmine, osmanthus) that don't overwhelm the shout of LEAF. delightful.
FZOTIC - lampblack. the CLEAR winner. initially smells like grapefruit and ink (!!) and then deepens into something rich and peppery. ink without paper or leather. peaty while still coming off crisp and autumnal. total success across the whole lifespan.
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adz · 8 months
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i want to smell all the fzotic perfumes but it’s over $20 for three of their testers. i don’t need to own them all i just wanna SNIFF and then buy one or two
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theholycuration · 9 months
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Fzotic, Lampblack ($135) and Corpse Reviver ($145)
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obscurelittleheart · 4 months
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some of my favorite obscure perfume
Female Christ by 19-69
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usually described as smelling like an old rotting church, some find the scent to be head-ache inducing
UNUM But Not Today by Filippo Sorcinelli
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inspired by Ridley Scott's Hannibal, many deem this an unwearable fragrance
Eau de Space
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made to replicate the smell of space and is a collector's item rather than a wearable fragrance
Reliqvia by Filippo Sorcinelli
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another old church scent, most describe it as an old church that has used incense for centuries
Room 237 by FZOTIC
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based on The Shining, many say it is a good tribute to the movie and say it has a vinyl shower curtain scent
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yotsubaarc · 5 months
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Any tea fragrance also reminds me of L so also Golden Ticket by Snif, Remember me by Jovoy Paris (it has a delicious Frangipani note for sweetness yet smells musty to me and like paper), or Unsettled by Fzotic for the Black Tea, Labdanum, and Clary Sage notes ...
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odoroussavourssweet · 9 months
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Fzotic Feu Secret
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Fzotic Feu Secret
Nose: Bruno Fazzolari
notes: orris, turmeric, birch, cedar, pink pepper, spruce, eucalyptus
Feu Secret opens with *very* sharp, stony, blinding-white iris, followed by an almost equally pale, perfumey, fragrant, refined woody note.
Half an hour in, it’s gone softer and a touch smoky; a pleasant, mellow, woody iris. a pale-woods scent like a Scandi modern-design interior.
finally, it sweetens slightly and becomes a sheer pale woody vanilla. Not super sweet, just a barely-there radiant aura.
Feu Secret is subtle throughout, a light translucent “office scent” that’s almost gone in three hours. I prefer more substantial perfumes myself, but if you like a light touch, it’s finely done and even haunting. it really does capture an effect of “secret fire”, a contemplative inner radiance in shades of white and beige.
(If you like subtle, minimalist, unisex “beige” or “ivory” scents, Lost Alice and Fleur du Peau are also good bets: a milky iris-sandalwood and a cotton-soft iris-ambrette respectively.)
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basenotes · 6 months
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Five Squared is latest scent from Fzotic – inspired by earlier scent, Five http://dlvr.it/Swb8cL
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nguyenthanhlinh · 6 months
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FZOTIC By Bruno Fazzolari: Sự Kết hợp Táo bạo giữa Nghệ thuật và Hương thơm
FZOTIC của Bruno Fazzolari thực sự là một loại nước hoa độc đáo và quyến rũ, kết hợp hoàn hảo giữa thế giới nghệ thuật và mùi hương. Loại nước hoa này là minh chứng cho tài năng nghệ thuật cũng như sự hiểu biết sâu sắc của ông về trải nghiệm khứu giác của Fazzolari. Sự kết hợp của những nốt hương táo bạo và bất ngờ tạo nên một mùi hương vừa hấp dẫn vừa quyến rũ.
FZOTIC của Bruno Fazzolari là một loại nước hoa đặc biệt kết hợp nghệ thuật với niềm vui khứu giác. Nếu bạn đang tìm kiếm một mùi hương táo bạo và quyến rũ, nổi bật giữa đám đông, thì không đâu khác ngoài FZOTIC.
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kenperfume · 9 months
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Tinh hoa của sự sáng tạo: Tìm hiểu về FZOTIC By Bruno Fazzolari
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Nước hoa FZOTIC By Bruno Fazzolari là một tác phẩm nghệ thuật độc đáo và tinh tế từ nhà nước hoa nổi tiếng Bruno Fazzolari. Được ra mắt với sự tinh tế và sự sáng tạo đặc trưng của nhà thiết kế, FZOTIC là một loại nước hoa hấp dẫn và độc đáo, mang đến cho bạn trải nghiệm khám phá thú vị về mùi hương.
Mùi hương của FZOTIC là sự kết hợp táo bạo và tinh tế của những thành phần tự nhiên, tạo nên một tầng hương phức tạp và hấp dẫn. Sự pha trộn táo bạo này tạo ra một sự đối lập độc đáo, kết hợp giữa sự tươi mát và sự đậm đà, tạo nên một mùi hương thú vị và tinh tế đồng thời.
Với Nước hoa FZOTIC By Bruno Fazzolari, bạn sẽ khám phá được một tầng hương phức tạp và độc đáo, đem lại cho bạn một trải nghiệm thú vị và khác biệt. Hãy để mùi hương này tạo nên những kỷ niệm và hình ảnh đáng nhớ trong cuộc sống của bạn.
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