Scentzilla!

The company S-Perfume is the brainchild of artist Nobi S-, who utilizes the skills of various perfumers to create the company’s scents. There is an openness at S-Perfumes about which perfumer made which scent, and if you click on each scent, it will list the name of that perfumer as a hyperlink, which you can further click to read a resume of other perfumes that person is credited with. I love that. I wish other companies would take heed.

I’d like to take a moment to comment on the packaging for the wee atomizers for Jet-Scent. The bottles are imprinted with an “s” shaped sperm, and the words “for surfers.” Well. Gross. Maybe I just have a filthy mind, but I’m sure I don’t have to be explicit in describing what I instantly imagine is the kind of surfing that seems to imply. Is it a joke? Is it not? I honestly am unsure.

Both Jet-Scent and the version of it called S-Perfume list a “spirit of life” note. Seriously? “Spirit of life?!” Oh, barf. I sure hope that’s a joke, too.

Some scents scream at you, some use an indoor voice, some manage to stage-whisper. These perfumes? Are disembodied voices from another room.

Now then, I’ll move on to the Alberto Morillas created ‘fume itself, which wears much like an eau de toilette. Jet-Scent opens with a saline blast. And as that evaporates, the fragrance next takes me back to a workshop I used to work in making picture frames. After spending just an hour at the miter saw I’d be enveloped in wood-hazed air, smelling the particulates of the fresh dust and the layers of newly exposed wood. It’s really the particular sort of smell you’d find in any woodworking shop. Next I smell this accord that is almost like a salad of wild baby greens and chopped herbs. But it’s somehow different, and more raw than that. It’s one of those smells I think I “know” but can’t quite place. Jet-Scent throws off sillage with these notes, but it’s mixed with traces of something that smells like a hair salon, and a note that reminds me of the putty we used to fill the joins of our frames. Despite the description from S-Perfumes, I really get no musk from this scent at all, and the vanilla is particularly indirect to the point of being mostly imperceptible. I’d describe this scent as salty, woody, dusty, and green.

Of all the S-Perfumes, Jet-Scent would be my favorite, but sadly it’s too faint and distant on my skin to warrant a purchase. Well, not that I could anyhow. Jet-Scent isn’t available for purchase online, and I only received it because it came with my samples.

First photo of Jet-Scent bottle. Second photo taken this afternoon of a trail of jet exhaust against the sun. Music clip is from “Disembodied Voices” by the Finn Bros. off their Everyone is Here album.