Discotheque Discovery Set

An olfactory jive...

[unpaid/sample/affiliate] There’s definitely an accidental cigarette theme this week - this pack of Discotheque fragrance samples reminds me of Sobranie Black Russians before the warning labels were enforced. Maybe it’s supposed to - I hope so. Discotheque was founded by Jessie Willner and Hanover Booth from LA and each fragrance represents a moment, a city or nightlife destination - really, there’s a night vibe to all of them as well as an uninhibited create freedom.

Genuinely, if you love a fragrance sample set, you are going to have a lot of fun with this. I’d say that some of the scents are challenging and Discotheque is not a brand chasing the algorithm. I can’t imagine there are many searches for Sweat, Tears, Paradise. It’s actually fresher than you might imagine - floral (lily, mimosa), salty and musky, overseen by absinthe.

Eye Contact is described thus: Leather and gin and glistening skin, crimson nights and black box peepholes, a bath of glowing amber, a key on a chain, a figment of the subconscious in a saffron haze, silhouette reflections in infinite mirrors, eyes that can’t look away. Someone fetch my fan! I truly don’t know what a black box peephole is but I think I know better than to Google it. To me, it’s quite masculine so perhaps we are talking about Heaven night club - there’s a lot of leather and oud going on in this fragrance and it settles beautifully on the skin to a kind of nuzzly effect. I will say that these fragrances have very good last.

I will get to all of them but for the purposes of this post, I’ve tried three and the final one is Heathens, Cowboys and The Santa Ana Winds that opened for me with a whiskey accord and yet, no whiskey in the notes. This is described as ‘naked hips, Freudian slips, loose lips’ with palmarosa, amyris, sweet grass and tea as the top notes. I’m 100% getting the tea and love it with the golden amber bottom notes. I can only tell you this - Cindarella’s in Wakefield did not smell like any of these so clearly I was nightclubbing wrong all through my teens. I genuinely think this is one of the most intriguing sample sets I’ve come across - each one is a statement fragrance and each one changes during wear. Where you begin is not where you end and where you end is up to you. The set is £39 HERE.

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