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Squid

Extrait de Parfum

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[Edited from Fragrantica] Those cold depths are still home, and black-brined pressure wraps warm and steady around a living myth. I was fascinated by this perfume from the get-go. I didn't get it, but I liked it. Salt and ink surfaced within about 15 minutes. Not quite gourmand-sweet? More like the fondness between captain & ship. Everything finally sunk into place when I stepped outside. Watery gray light, low fog, damp skin. Squid loved it - awash in a new vitality I didn't or couldn't catch from the living room. A drifting ambergris warmth. I have no idea how to recommend this perfume. It's so strange, but wearable. Sweet, but nothing edible. Unisex, but not neutral. Snag a sample, I guess! TLDR: If wanna date Cthulhu, here ya go!
By   - Editor from California on 9/16/2024
One sniff and I’m at the pier from my childhood smelling the salty, briny sea, the distant sweetness of baked goods and that one shop with the pewter dragons and tiny ceramic fairies that is always burning incense. Eventually, I’m sitting on a barnacle covered rock, eating funnel cake. Extremely transportive scent.
By   - Decorator from Oakland, CA on 12/22/2023
I think a previous reviewer mentioned that this scent grows on you. That's definitely my experience. I had initially placed this sample in my "no" pile. After a few weeks, I was going through my samples and decided to try it again, and I felt quite drawn to it this time. There is something about Squid that is extremely craveable. Salty, inky, with a slightly sweet resinous incense quality. I'd say this is best for cooler weather. It can be a bit cloying in warm weather. Mysterious, deep and definitely unisex. I find one spray is plenty for me, as I prefer my fragrances to not overpower a space. I'd wear this on a nice date, to the goth club, or an overcast walk on the coast (unexpectedly versatile).
By   - tattoo artist from bay area on 4/21/2023
This is very realistic. This doesn't smell like a fragrance, this is an experience, it takes you in nature! This is a dark, deep, blue-green, under the water sea scent. A light, beachy, salty air, sweet, warm, and sunny scent. Best of both worlds. A dark marine and light aquatic unisex. It's a scent of nature for everyone. It's a noticeable skin scent 1st 5hrs and skin scent next 5hrs, 10 total hrs. Not too loud or gentle, so perfect for this style. I can only see myself wearing on days I miss the ocean, beach, waves, and warm sun. I feel this scent would be great for days I have with anxiety. This is very realistic and it takes you in and on a journey. Wow.
By   - Spiritual advisor from Italy on 4/7/2023
Opens with the scent of alchohol, then you get incense & salt. It drys down to baby powder. I was looking for a unisex marine scent and this is not it. It also gave me a headache after 30 mins.
By   - Business owner  from Dallas on 12/6/2021
Sweet, aquatic, smokey and spicy. Squid also has ink notes. A fragrance with an interesting ozonic contrast that's unisex. One of Zoologist's best beside Bee.
By   - n/a from n/a on 4/25/2021
This is a fragrance you have to 'get to know' before you make a final judgment about it. At first I really thought I would hate it. Something about the sweet incense with the salty ocean bothered me and kind of repulsed me at first spray. But the more I sat with it, the more I really came around and felt intrigued by this fragrance. I ended up feeling like a sea witch wearing it, voluptuous, dark, and deep. This isn't something easy to wear on a daily basis, but it's hard to stop thinking about it once you try it out. I'm hoping to save up for a full bottle purchase in the future.
By   - Homemaker from Woodstown, NJ on 12/31/2020
The squid is a creature forever associated in my mind with the film 20,000 Leagues under the Sea. A relevant association because this fragrance does somehow evoke the elegant interior of Captain Nemo's Nautilus. There is a black tar and oily aspect, like the pleasant effluvium from the deep sea equipment aboard the vessel. This attractive fresh-oily scent, an animalic take on the odour of the sea which successfully avoids being overtly fishy, gives Squid a highly original character. I rate it as one of the all time great sea fragrances, Equally intriguing is the colour, a blue-black shade which I have never before seen in a fragrance, Top marks all round for this outstanding product.
By   - Retired from Stratford on Avon, UK on 11/8/2020
This is one of the random samples LS put in with my order and good golly, it was most exciting. And for me, that's honestly the fun part of being on this fragrant hobby/adventure - is to be surprised. I thought I knew what I liked (which is smelling like a bakery), and Squid completely opened up my mind. I live in San Francisco where the beaches are cold but you're out there in a fleece hoodie under the sun playing ultimate frisbee. It's cool aquatic in a comforting, warm solar scape. Stone, not sand. Salty, not tropical. I made a promise to myself that this will be my first full bottle purchase here after I finishing up my huge pile of sample shame.
By   - designer from San Francisco on 8/16/2020
This is an amazing composition that is an unexpected paragon. The incense, solar salicylate, and pink pepper bring an opening that is like an open splash of of water. The salt and ink heart is wrapped in opoponax resin and reminds you that you're in the ocean. As the dry down reveals Amergris, Benzoin, and musk it reminds me of the depths of the sea.
By   - Archives Technician from Olathe on 6/21/2020
I wasn't sure about this one at first. The first few times I wore it it smelled like baby powder. Then I put it on right after the shower and I could smell all the notes! It opens with something vaguely fruity but fresh and watery. On clean skin it develops in the mid drydown to pure ocean with a hint of salt. Not tropical ocean but middle of the Atlantic ocean. The end product was a watery clean smell that lasts for HOURS. Projection is great, on clean skin. On regular dry skin it's very powdery. For that reason and the fact that ocean smells are not really my style I won't be buying a big bottle. But this would be good for the office or the summer, very clean and watery.
By   - Accountant from Clinton on 10/1/2019
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