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Avant Garde & Unusual

Avant-garde perfumes are daring creations, rebellious against the bounds of tradition, blending unexpected elements into a harmony that both unsettles and enchants. In these elixirs, traditional perfume notes are replaced by notes that defy convention—sharp as cold steel, or as fleeting as a wisp of smoke. They stir abstract emotions, conjuring visions both unique and captivating. Cement may mingle with the scent of stormy skies, ink with the metallic iron of blood, or the fragile sweetness of florals with the crispness of a new hundred-dollar bill. To wear these perfumes is both an experience and a statement, where art meets olfaction in a paradoxical way that feels both modern and timeless, evoking nostalgia yet also pushing the boundaries of scent.

Curious Oddities Sample Set

A collection of odd and avant garde perfumes for the olfactory adventurer.

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Enigma Perfume

Iso Super E Aroma Molecule - Anti-Perfume

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St. Louis Cemetery #1 Perfume

A brooding of Spanish moss, crumbling stone, old cement, red clay brick, and graveyard dirt

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Smoke & Mirrors Perfume

An elusive, smokey blend of burning wood, Madagascar Vanilla, and Tonka

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Supernatural Perfume

An ethereal alchemy of aroma molecules, Iso-E, Ambrox, Vegan Tonkin musk

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A well lit carnival in the evening hours. Hundreds of figures move about the space: men, women, and children take in the sights, smells, and sounds. A carousel turns, horses of all colors spinning wildly, and the lights of a ferris wheel shine vividly in the background.

Pink cotton candy, Hot kettle corn, Funnel cakes, Candied apples, and Saltwater taffy

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Lola Perfume

Coca Cola, Blood orange, Brazilian Cherrywood, Nutmeg, Tonka, Pink Pepper

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The Center of the Universe Perfume

Raspberries, Rum, Hot Metal, Ozone, Gun Powder, and Charcoal

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A human skull sits alone in the hollow of a mantle. The ledge below is scattered with copper and silver coins.

Dust, Shadows, Wood raspings, Attic air, Library stacks

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The home of a bibliophile, a lover of books. A built-in bookcase holds it's charges carefully next to a lounger. Closer to us there is a low table with a bowl of fruit, two saucers supporting tea cups, and several small ornaments. Behind the lounger a thin gauzy sheet hangs like a protective barrier in the doorway

Leatherbound books, Vintage vinyl records, Mahogany, Fountain pen ink, Black tea, Plum brandy

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First Dandelion Perfume

A bright meadow of fresh dandelion flowers, green dandelion leaves, and warm dirt

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Old Books and Fresh Flowers Perfume

Neroli, Heliotrope, Paper, Leather Bound Books

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Nature of the Beast Perfume

Amyris wood, Elemi balsam, Dark musk, Haitian vetiver, Ambroxan, Patchouli, Labdanum, Pheromones

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Electric Fur Perfume

A shockingly sensual scent of aroused skin and soft musky fur

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Industrial Sabotage Perfume

Burnt Wires, Hot Forged Steel, Broken Machinery, Gunpowder

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A heavily stylized depiction of a strapping young man's back. Abstract designs frame what is visible of his rippling sinews.

Fire hardened steel, Rusted iron, Motor oil, Wet cement, Burnt copper wires, Grey amber

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Mermaids in the Basement Perfume

Seawater soaked linen, Aquatic incense, White ginger, Pomelo, Cactus flower, Loquat, Hinoki, Guaiac

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Raxeira Perfume

Golden amber, Sawdust, Woody aldehydes, Old newpapers, Vetiver, Orris root, Dried leather harnesses

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A fun twist on a mysterious work of art, the Mona Lisa. She watches you with her knowing smile, behind round rimmed and colorful sunglasses. She wears a paisley printed bandana, a bedazzled CND Peace Sign pendant.

A Bohemian vibe of wild Mountain mint, coriander, blue lavender, green patchouli

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A woman sits before a vast frigid landscape, peaks of glacial ice rising like mountains in the distance. Her hair is worn in a high bun, and she wears a pink kimono, vibrant against the blue hues of the ice behind. She plays the guzheng with a masterful caress, but does she sing about the joys of spring, or the sorrows of winter?

Wet snow, Melting ice, Warm skin

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Voice of the Sea Perfume

Salinaceous Seabreeze, Sunbleached driftwood, Crushed seashell, Meyers lemon, Mineralistic sand

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A man guides a plow through a virile field, while a woman scatters seeds in his wake. The plow is pulled by a great winged horse, and it's muscles tense as the it rends the earth asunder, leaving it open to the gifts of life the woman offers.

Greens, Fresh soil, Worn leather, Anise hyssop, Smokey lavender, Indolic jasmine, Vanilla grass, Oak

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Writer's Blood Perfume

Iron-tinged blood, a manuscript soaked in spilled black coffee, and an overturned tin of rolling tobacco

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Love Among the Ruins Perfume

Stone ruins, Lichen, Tangles of flowering vines

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Feu Follet (Swamp Fairy) Perfume

Artemisia, caraway, bergamot, Swamp azalea, Tamarack, Blackgum, bog rosemary, vetiver, black patchouli, oakmoss, tobacco leaf, leather, and wet mud.

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Tulips & Chimneys Perfume

Fresh tulips, Rainy aldehydes, Wet asphalt, Industrial engines, Toulouse violets, Mint pastels

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Pi in the Sky Perfume

Warm apple pie rising heavenward on effervescent billows of spiced aldehydes

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Poudre d'épicine Perfume

Gender Neutral Powder, Japanese Musk, Mint Creme Anglaise

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The Libertine Perfume

Cashmeran, Bergamot, Japanese boudior incense, Botanical pheromones, Ambroxan, Licorice

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Incense of a New Church Perfume

Incense of agarwood, costus, mentholated tobacco, steam-heated radiators, and old machinery

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Prairie 66 Perfume

Linden Blossoms, Citrus, Aldehydes, Flowering Sage, Concrete

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A stern dark haired feminine figure seated cross-legged, holding a short staff upright on the floor. On the ground before her lays a puppet-like caricature of a man in a bowler hat, pierced through his chest by a basket-hilted hairpin. The woman's eyes are dark as she holds another hairpin at the ready. What has this man done to be such anathema to her?

Beeswax candles, Ritual incense woods, Santalum, Liquidambar, and a Copper athame

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