films and their fragrances
dark disturbing valentine's day movies and their perfect scent match
The idea for this post was: what if there was a social platform that was Letterboxed meets Fragrantica?
How to smell like the new witch in town on an accidental murder spree
The Love Witch is a campy fever dream that’s equal parts Pinterest blue eyeshadow inspo and TikTok tarot readings. It was an easy match to Dark is Night by Henry Rose, which is supposed to be a patchouli vanilla. I get more vanilla than patchouli (which I don’t even really like that much) but I LOVE this. It smells thick and spooky like a haunted house fog machine, but also very sensual. Pagan, occult and earthy. A spidery Victorian house with frilly velvet curtains. A witch brewing a potion with vanilla extract spiked with a bloody tampon that puts men into a trancelike infatuation before he succumbs to a psychedelia-laced death and she buries him.
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How to smell like a young doe-eyed cannibal in love
Bones & All uses cannibalism more as a metaphor for being an outcast and wanting to do or be things that are culturally taboo. But it doesn’t shy away from emphasizing how flesh and bone and consumption represent the intensity of human relationships. Hysteria by Mondo Mondo smells like somewhere remote…away from human civilization and social contracts. It’s cheap sunscreen that leaves a white cast on the back of your neck as you pass by a sign that says “next gas stop 50 miles.” Dehydrated and woozy, waking up on a hammock finding out you’re stranded on a desert island, the sweet about-to-turn-rotten smell of a rotten mango covered in flies.
How to smell like a May Queen leaving a toxic relationship
Omg I was hooked on Midsommar from start to finish. It’s a folk horror piece that has nightmarish creepy shit unfold in the broad daylight of a remote society in Sweden. Aesop’s Eidesis (I wore this a lot last winter) has all the earthy woody notes that match the film’s portrayal of nature’s cycle…birth, death and all the rites of passage in between. It’s being alone in the woods barefoot on hallucinogens at the crack of dawn. Wearing a white linen smock, rolling out dough for wood-fired meat pies. Burnt flora, char, cleansing.
How to smell like a rebel in a relationship police state
I watched The Lobster because it was directed by the same person who did Poor Things. While I loved Poor Things way more, I appreciated the dark comedy premise of The Lobster where singles have 40-something days to find a romantic partner at this dystopian hotel resort or else they turn into an animal. The liminal space-ness of the film reminded me of Floating by Liis. I smelled this at a store in San Francisco. It’s inspired by the “weightlessness of a day without plans.” It’s light and a little peachy and lulls me to close my eyes. It’s a fruity tranquilizer that the dystopian overlords inject you with for breaking the rules. The blankness of hotel sheets and towels. Anesthesia dream. The twinge of hope that you’ll make it out on the other side, somehow, someday, against all odds.
Hope you enjoyed this concept :)
What’s your favorite disturbing/dark film and what fragrance does it remind you of?
there's actually a perfume based on The Lobster XD The Lobster by Moth and Rabbit
obsessed & very well written - imagining this when it comes to horror movies omg ❣️