SOTD: L'Artisan Dzing!

This is a fragrance that's been on the Kinda Sorta Maybe Wanna Buy It list for a long, long time. Years. It's also been rumored to be discontinued for a long, long time. (Years.) But it seems to still be around, if only in the massively oversized 100 ml size.

Again, I can't decide. But again, I'm enjoying it. I just put it on, so it's still in the early leather/vinyl stage. I'm waiting for the cotton candy and elephant ... er... elephants.

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SOTD: L'Artisan Parfumeur Dzing!

It wasn't weird enough.

I love the idea of Dzing!. The circus scent. Leather and horses and rubber and stale peanuts and cotton candy. I love the bottle, with the lady-riding-the-tiger logo.

And I love the idea of its weirdness. I like weird. I like scents with gasoline and mothballs and dry cleaning fluid and pencil erasers. I don't like the ones with stale nuts, but I'm sure they'll grow on me. After comparing Bandit's animalic note with that of Dzing!, I decided to wear it today and bask in the weirdness.

But I don't actually experience it as weird. And I find this disappointing.

It's nice. It's very nice. It starts out with an odd rubber/leather/animal note, and progresses to a soft ambery sweetness. Very enjoyable. I'm more than willing to try it again. But when I do, I hope I get the weird.

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