'Inexcusable Evil' & Four Other 'Unique' Perfumes We Were Left Speechless By
We cannot imagine wearing these fragrances in public.
By Syazwan Bahri — 20 Jan 2025, 11:52 AM
Perfumes, also known as fragrances, can be challenging to get right given the wide spectrum of scents available
Fragrances are a simple addition to one's daily get-up; luxurious scents and bright fragrances accentuate your presence in a crowd, so it's more than just about smelling nice.
However, we stumbled on a couple of peculiar fragrances with comments and reviews that are highly questionable. In fact, these fragrances are so outlandish that we can't imagine applying even a spritz before going anywhere in public.
1. Inexcusable Evil by Toskovat
Imagine someone being shot in a flower nursery, the air heavy with the suffocating scent of ignited gunpowder. Crimson blood spills as the body hits the hard, cold, concrete floor.
That is exactly how Inexcusable Evil would be described by its maker, Toskovat.
A review for the fragrance reads as follows:
"Very interesting fragrance. This scent evokes emotion, it smells of blood and war. It is not an easy wear but it is named perfectly. Not your common 'feel good' fragrance, but that seems to be the point."
2. Secretions Magnifiques by Etat Libre d'Orange
This perfume evokes the image of a sweaty gathering of sexual encounters, flanked by the stale scent of dried bodily fluids in a luxury bedroom. In other words, it smells like a sweaty orgy. However, the strong scent later dries down and its scent profile starts to appear. A strong iris scent makes itself pronounced as the sweaty, pungent odour fades away.
We had the unfortunate opportunity to experience what this smelled like first-hand at a fragrance store. The putrid scent immediately triggered our gag reflex and unfortunately, we are not exagerating this claim.
The French perfumer is known to come up with fragrant scents such as Ghost In The Shell and Attaquer le Soleil Marquis de Sade. It is said that Secretions Magnifique was conceived as a gag perfume (literally) and it sure put the brand on the map.
3. Anarchist A- by Toskovat
Another entry by Romanian perfumer Toskovat. This fragrance was described as having notes of credit cards, money, ink, plastic, and... checks note... priests' clothes.
We have absolutely no idea how that smells like, though, the scent profile is pretty interesting.
Here's what someone had to say about this fragrance:
"If you accidentally found your local priest cooking up meth in an abandoned, permanently closed church, it would smell just like this. The ink is very prevalent for me, as well as the candle wax and the money."
4. Dusita by Oudh Infini Parfums
Another fragrance that we tried at The Exchange TRX was Dusita by French perfumer Oudh Infini Parfums.
The fragrance emits a strong, animalic scent that is so pungent, it evokes a fecal, skanky barnyard image in our heads. Our sample of Dusita that sat in our bag smelled like someone took a deep, warm shit in the bag.
After a day of drying down, we totally understood the fragrance, as a regal, oud scent, fitting of an Arabic prince, started to appear from our sample. However, the offensive initial scent turns us away from ever touching this bottle of fragance again.
5. Tyrannosaurus Rex by Zoologist
We can describe this fragance in one word: primal.
The heavy Jurassic air fills your nostrils as you catch warm scents of evergreen coniferous trees over detritus. Wildfire spreads nearby, engulfing fallen trees and dinosaur carcasses, emanating wafts of resinous smoke and dead primitive animals.
The fragrance has been described as having wafts of fir, black pepper, bay leaf, champaca, geranium, rose, resins, leather, cade oil, and more.
Here's a comment explaining the fragrance:
"The easiest way to describe it is what I think the world would have smelled like after an asteroid hit planet Earth and killed all of the dinosaurs."
