This took almost three months to arrive, and for any other fragrance that would impact my review, but my god, this was worth the wait.
This fragrance is excellent. Incredible. True to its name - I've seen a lot of "blood" fragrances that are too cowardly to actually smell like blood, and instead just use spices and musk and such. But this fragrance delivers exactly what it promises. I respect the audacity.
Potent - you only need a single spray for your whole body, and the scent lingers in the room (and on your skin) for hours. I wore it before attending a Halloween event, and two days later I can still smell the ghost of this fragrance on my leather jacket.
It's sharply metallic when first sprayed, but the sharpness quickly dries down to a more consistent musky metallic scent, it's genuinely impossible to describe other than, well, lots and lots of blood. I also get some forest-y notes in here... Like something gored a deer in the woods, and you stumbled across its mangled corpse bleeding out into the wet moss a few hours later. I've never smelled anything like it, and I'm obsessed.
I have to save it for special occasions because it evokes such a strong reaction from my partner. They described their reaction as something akin to a "predator instinct activated" so... do with that what you will. I understand what people might say about feeling slightly nauseous when first smelling the fragrance, but I didn't get that feeling personally. It was just like, holy sh*t. I could almost see a shift in my own behavior as I wore it throughout the Halloween event. I felt more confident, more alert, more dangerous. It doesn't let you forget you're wearing it. This fragrance will DEFINITELY turn heads, too. Watch to make sure you're not being followed by folks who'd rather avoid the sun, if you know what I mean. /|\ ^•-•^/|\
