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Scent Name:  Fancy Pups

Manufacturer:  Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab – 

Scent Description and Notes:  “

I am his Highness’ dog at Kew,

Pray tell me sir, whose dog are you?

― Alexander Pope

A genteel affair that presses against the constraints of common decency: tumescent black silk, pink sugared patent leather, rich tobacco leaf, sunrise papaya, and mango cream with crystalline trickles of clean pup sweat.

Illustration by Maximiliano Pino

Instagram: @jugodepapaya.” -https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/shop/lupercalia-2024/fancy-pups-perfume-oil/

Oil Color:  The color of a newly minted penny.

Bottle Design and Artwork: This is a standard vial / imp size (1/32 oz) that has been decanted from Ajevie. The label features the year and the scent name in stylized large black font with the perfume company name in a more normal and smaller black font underneath it. The back of the label has the scent notes in small black font, while the spine of the label features the name of the company and year in burgundy and red font.

Scent: 

  • ITI:  It smells like expensive unisex fresh perfume with lightly sugared tobacco leaf, a whisper of leather and a spiced silk. The spice itself smells like cardamom and faint anise, but I’m not sure if that’s just from the silk itself.  I’m not getting much in terms of fruit tones, though.
  • Wet:   Thankfully the fruit tones emerge  upon application with chilled mango and papaya nestled against sugar-kissed leather threaded with airy silk, and a whisper of tobacco leaf.  The phrase ‘Debutante Daddy’ is circling my mind whenever I sniff this. 
  • Dry:  After 9 hours, a faded, powdered, crystalline mango sugared cream lightly laps up against silk that caresses tobacco-kissed skin musk and a glimpse of leather far in the background.  Light and seductive. 

Other Impressions:  [Wet] “GetaGuru orange clove soap with a touch of cinnamon.” -Tony