07.31.07
Metamorphoses #2: Black March
by CB I Hate Perfume, 2006
Much has been said about this, or any other, Christopher Brosius scent. That they’re unusually evocative, that they don’t smell like perfume (duh!) but are more like olfactory art. Black March smells like dirt, specifically classier dirt, otherwise known as humus, and very specifically in the wet spring with green shoots of weeds growing out of it. What it specifically evokes to me is the Dirt flavor jellybeans from Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans. Its scents of humus and young greens makes other perfume bloggers go into flights of purple prose about “Springs From My Childhood”, but not me. Springtime where I’m from generally happens in April, the dirt isn’t humus, it’s clayey-sandy DIRT, and there’s a lot more harsh wet wood, more noxious smelling weeds, and at least one dead animal rotting in a ditch somewhere. Read the rest of this entry »