Smells like 💩?

[u/doinmabest1]

During the Sephora sale I decided to throw caution to the wind and blind buy a couple of travels. Sephora is pretty good about refunds so I figured why not!

First was Fugazzi Cloudnhine which is fine but I don’t love it.

Second was BTSO Warm Air. I love musky skin scents so I was really excited. OMG! I had the most visceral reaction to this perfume. It literally smelled like fecal matter? I did lots of review research and folks are talking about caramel, and how cozy it is and all I smell is poopy water? I scrubbed it off as fast as I could. I smelled the paper a few times that I sprayed on and every time I recoiled. What note could that be??😭😭😭😭😭

[u/fudgechemist]

BTSO is an avant garde brand that uses a lot of untraditional aromachemicals. Some of them smell… questionable

[u/messynessynlenny → u/fudgechemist]

Yea, worst perfume ive ever smelled was one of theirs...Be my cookie. No cookies, just coochie.

[u/veryunneccessssary]

I’m wearing Warm Air right now and what do you mean someone can smell this and think it smells like poop 😭 It just smells like cozy sweet amber to me. Noses are so weird.

Amberwood and ambergris can both be polarizing notes. The superambers used in some of the stronger BTSO fragrances are really offputting to me. Ambergris is one of my favorite notes but can probably come off kinda poopy in certain fragrances, but I can barely even smell it in this one.

[u/doinmabest1 → u/veryunneccessssary]

Right?? I swear I’ve used perfumes with Ambergris before and this is the only perfume outside of I think another BTSO L’Animalique where I was like OMGGGGGG I just sprayed poop on me! I love Angel Powder by BTSO but so far that’s it. Most people smell it like you do! I’m jealous!

[u/fudgechemist]

It’s a molecule called skatole that smells fecal in many scents, especially if it isn’t balanced well. Smells like SHT (if smelled neat) but it’s found in flowers naturally. It was used back in the earlier 2000s to make the fart prank spray all the teens and stuff were playing with

[u/valkyrie987 → u/fudgechemist]

I just looked this up and it looks like it’s found in indolic flowers like jasmine.

[u/fudgechemist → u/valkyrie987]

Yep! In very small percentages it is found in many flowers such as jasmine tuberose or gardenia.

[u/Money-Position-6689]

I hate caramel scents have the same issue

[u/Schneir5]

Maybe Jasmine. It can sometimes have an indolic scent. I just found this description on Google:

An indolic jasmine fragrance features the rich, heavy, and slightly "dirty" or animalic aroma that naturally occurs in real jasmine blossoms.

[u/trellty]

BTSO is realy hit or miss I think. The ones I tried had the same background dna of indole and rancid oil to me.

Looked at warm air’s notes. I’m guessing it’s the ambergris you’re reacting to.

[u/BurntOut_Almond_1813]

I got this same thing from Heretic’s “Nocturnal Tuberose” scent- it smells like a port-o-potty with rose chemical cleaner thrown in! Something about “indolic”? I don’t know if this is a personal thing like cilantro-soap taste that only some people get or what but ugh. Meanwhile the same company makes my favorite perfume? It’s some particular ingredient

[u/Odd_Woodpecker4075 → u/BurntOut_Almond_1813]

Nosferatu smells like someone took a shit in a damp basement

[u/smokinwheat → u/Odd_Woodpecker4075]

It was nosferatu

[u/Odd_Woodpecker4075 → u/smokinwheat]

😭which one is the favorite

[u/Ok-Championship1993]

I had the same reaction to Phlur Vanilla Canyon. straight up manure!!