Not A Perfume Superdose

Not A Perfume. No kidding! Not even a fragrance in fact. No smell at all. Nothing. Nada. I tried this in a store and loved it's dark smoky muskiness but when I bought it (the Superdose version) there was no fragrance at all. No matter how much I put on my skin and clothes there was nothing, even before it dried down. No one else could detect anything either. A complete waste of money. Such a disappointment. Ouch.

I'm a sucker for this type of fragrance, so I didn't waste a moment before pulling the trigger on this. I love JHAG Not a Perfume, and this one is even better. Nothing funky at all on my skin, but you might want to try before you buy (even though I didn't). If you are a fan of the Escentric Molecule series, Le Labo Another 13, or the original Not a Perfume, you are probably going to love this one. No buyer's remorse here. I love this stuff.

Of course it’s not a perfume, silly; it’s Cetalox, a warm amber-like synthetic compound that makes a good stand-in for ambergris, or so I am told. This has a papery aspect I really like, but on my skin it spent a good portion of the opening in a pong-y, funky state that made me think it was about to be a scrubber. I gave it a while and was rewarded with everything from oak to Concord grape skins, but I take serious issue with the marketing person who tried tacking “superclean” to this one.