Complex® Inspired Unisex Perfume - No.542

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   Rated 4 out of 5

   Thomas Martin – 8 September 2022

   Ok, so this one’s a grower and in-no-way for everyone but it’s immediately striking and has almost imperceptibly become one my main go-to’s for daytime wear. Making the usual allowances for subjectivity: no, it doesn’t strike me as ESPECIALLY complex, although neither is its impression two-dimensional or superficial. What it is is downright strange: it smells a bit like wet, earthy grass or weeds. Closer inspection, and the usual mellowing effect that comes with the dry-down, reveals leathery and incense notes, but the prevailing impression for me is of soggy old Mother Nature. The extent to which this this strikes you as a good thing will depend on your temperament and your politics, but I will say this: if at first you don’t like it, give it a chance to grow on you, like the moist green moss it smells like. I’ve been wearing it on and off for three weeks and it still strikes me as (compellingly) bizarre but, for whatever reason, I’m more-or-less won over. Maybe it speaks to the atavistic child in me that would rather be out playing in the schmutz and brushing off bugs than pseudo-adulting in front of a computer screen. TLDR: striking, weird, marshy, green, niche. Give it a punt, you might love it.