How to Smell Like an Avatar of Fear
-A Comprehensive List-
From a hobbyist perfume collector and avid TMA listener
Did you know that smell, out of all the five senses, is the one most linked to memory and emotion? With my help, you too can invoke a sense of unease in the minds of friends, enemies and strangers everywhere !!
DISCLAIMER: I have not tried every, or even most, of the perfumes on this list. However, I have purchased and enjoyed perfumes from all of the houses listed.
-The Buried-
Name: Geosmin
House: Osmofolia
Scent profile: wet aldehydes, ozone, geosmin, fresh water, petrichor, soil
-The Corruption-
Name: Pile of green goo
House: Death and Floral
Scent profile: Partially rotting wood and oakmoss, white oudh, deep & enchanting crushed rose resins
-The Dark-
Name: The Raven
House: Alkemia
Scent profile: Ebony heartwood, black amber, black pepper, blackseed (habbatul barakah), black Bengal cardamon, black ink, nigella (black coriander), black iris, violet leaves, and leather.
-The Desolation-
Name: A City On Fire
House: Imaginary Authors
Scent profile: Cade oil, Spikenard, Cardamom, Clearwood, Dark Berries, Labdanum, Burnt Match
-The End-
Name: Bones melting together
House: Death and Floral
Scent profile: Dusty dry bone dust accord, coffin wood, bergamot
-The Extinction-
Name: Industrial Sabotage
House: Alkemia
Scent profile: A cataclysmic wreckage of burnt wires; twisted melted steel; shattered machinery, and gunpowder.
-The Eye-
Name: Book of Shadows
House: Alkemia
Scent profile: A biblichor of eldritch books - heavy parchment paper, ancient iron oak gall ink, crumbling leather bindings, and wafts of rare incenses.
-The Flesh-
Name: Writer’s Blood
House: Alkemia
Scent profile: iron-tinged blood, a manuscript soaked in spilled black coffee, and an overturned tin of rolling tobacco.
-The Hunt-
Name: The wolf only needs luck to find you once
House: Death and Floral
Scent profile: Crisp forest night air, lunar musk, large drifting oakwood trees, the musky scent of a trailing shadow.
-The Lonely-
Name: The people you love become ghosts inside of you
House: Death and Floral
Scent profile: Heavenly musk, lingering funeral flowers, cold scent of vanilla in an empty corridor, handprints on a foggy window
-The Slaughter-
Name: The Highwayman
House: Alkemia
Scent profile: Sweat stained black leather, night air, a dirt road under galloping hooves, tobacco, bloodstained lace, gunpowder
-The Spiral-
Name: Finally A Star
House: Osmofolia
Scent profile: The glitz of cardamom and sparkling grapefruit stars, outer space ozone, dreamy tuberose, searing gunpowder, and a ham hock for a head. Inspired by Jack Stauber's song The Ballad of Hamantha.
-The Stranger-
Name: Wax museums
House: Death and Floral
Scent profile: Sweet and warm liqueur, elegant suede, black currant, beeswax absolute, magnolia heart
-The Vast-
Name: With the fishes and the dead
House: Death and Floral
Scent profile: Black squid ink and mile long oceans. Black ambergris, black labdanum absolute, salty ocean water, and black pits of stretched out emptiness.
-The Web-
Name: Dustsceawung
House: Alkemia
Scent profile: The scent of forbidden explorations and an olfactory meditation on dust: attic air, the inside of old trunks, abandoned haylofts, library stacks, and abandoned buildings.
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I’ve been both a tma fan and a literature bitch for long enough to realize that, as much as it pains me to admit, I’m kind of Jurgen Leitner. Evidence:
- I collect books. The area where this is specifically relevant is that I have a penchant for texts that caused a huge stir, horror or gothic fiction (particularly if it’s a 100+ year old text or edition), or I’ve heard first/secondhand accounts of it being in some way haunted or really off-putting.
- In my free time, I enjoy appraising my books (my antique Shelley anthology and my 1st ed. hardcover 13 Storeys will be protected with my LIFE <3)
- I’ll make things up about myself and feign accents just because I think it’s entertaining to see how long I can keep it up
- I don’t have a healthy sense of danger at all, and fail to realize the gravity of whatever I’m doing until after the fact
- I’m blonde
Do with this information what you will, I realized this in a cold sweat in the dead of night and it’s haunted me ever since
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