Dangerous Complicity

I got a few samples of this and kept coming back to it. On the same day I got 500 years, La Fin du Monde, and Une Amourette. 500 years was my obvious favorite, but I'm not going to fork over $225. Anyway, Dangerous Complicity was next best. I couldn't really put my finger on exactly why I was so drawn to it. It has slightly powdery, fruity apricot osmanthus and tea like scent. The bay leaf really comes through on me, and reminds me of Lalique le Parfum. It's very pretty and easy to wear. Nothing groundbreaking, but I was tempted to buy a full bottle, and I couldn't figure out why. It's not really a sexy scent, the name is misleading, I agree with the other reviews. I'm a Mugler girl, Womanity and its flankers are my faves. I prefer loud, unique scents with massive sillage and longevity. This has low to moderate sillage and moderate longevity on skin. Lasts longer on clothing and hair. For me, Dangerous Complicity is not what I would normally gravitate to. This morning I figured out the attraction. I sprayed some on at 8 am, and a couple of hours later I was working out and it hit me. It reminds me of a softer more mature Exclamation by Coty!!! Exclamation was my first perfume, I practically bathed in it as a 9-12 year old. It made me feel so grown up. So it's nostalgia that is making me crave this fragrance. Coty Exclamation, with a dash of grown up Le Lalique Parfum.

poor misunderstood dangerous complicity. it just goes to show how consequential a name can be ! in my mind, it is not meant to smell dangerous. it's meant to smell innocent, and dangerously so ! which is why it's...dangerous to be....complicit (it's in the name !). ANYWAY, like most reviewers, the first time i smelled this i was underwhelmed. nothing special, perhaps even (shock ! horror !) conventional. i moved on, and tried it again weeks later, and this time something happened: i couldn't stop smelling myself. it was exhilarating. the sweet booziness of the rum mixed with the creaminess of the cashmere wood and coconut was pleasant, but the osmanthus was a revelation for me. it may border on the conventional, but there is nothing teenybopper mall scent about this (i assure you). the osmanthus and ylang ylang grow it up -- this girl has come of age, and she's curious and open to what the world has to offer; any lingering naïveté gives her strength. it's a mood lifter, it's optimistic, and it holds the potential to charm the jaded (how dangerous then indeed, actually). but don't be fooled: you don't have to be young to wear this--just sensual. i never want to be without her. consider me complicit.

Putain Des Palaces baby sister. This one is fresh and non powdery. It's probably the barely there fresh coconut. Perfect for both him and her. Don't be scared of the notes, everything is blended in the softest way, almost silky. It's creamy, not a warm perfume but it does turn COZY, very elegant. Harley and Joker probably smells like this when they're together. Suicide Squad version. Without all the craziness, a more toned down, less psycho version of them. Do I love it YES, I do indeed. Will I die for it, I mean... Would I live for it, yes. Some people really have no vision. Just because a perfume has a certain note listed DOES NOT mean it's going to give it to you HARDCORE, it's there but in a very subtle kinda way. There is rum, fresh coconut but not to your face, soft leather, Jasmine and probably ONE bay leaf added to the concoction. Fresh ginger and sandalwood. No it is NOT churchy, but if it smells like this, wow. What church do y'all go to? Who's grandmother smells like this because I would LOVE to be around her. This has a baby lotion (pink bottle) smell to it. In a sensual type of way. Boozy, creamy, sweet (not too sweet) cozy but FRESH. A night time, very sexy perfume. BISOUS

Oh my god, this smells like heaven. I didn't expect to love this fragrance as much as I did. This is so invigorating, complex, delicious, and exciting. When I first spread this on my arm, I got a wiff of strong florals and bright greens. I could definitely smell ylang-ylang, backed up by some deeper, richer green notes. Mabey, it was the bay leaf of calamuas. Then, as I let the opening develop more, I smelled coconut, and then some of the wood finally came in. This was so rich and complex; every note played off of each other in such a beautiful way. It had this calming and warm green herbal smell that I just couldn't stop smelling. In the drydown, I got a bit more of that spice, and the floars faded. It now smells like a sexy, green, spicey, woody fragrance. It was intoxatingly spicy yet sweet. This is a very unisex fragrance; the florals in the opening are great, and the woody, hardy green base really rounds it out. This lasts forever, and the project is great. I really fell in love with his fragrance. It is perfection in a bottle. This is a 10/10 fragrance everything about it is perfect.

Adam and Eve, and the Forbidden Fruit they were tempted to, is the most significant part of the sprawling premise behind Dangerous Complicity. Complicit acts lead to dangerous outcomes, more or less. It’s a good creative mandate for Etat Libre d’Orange as it opens up a world of the Biblical, mythical, and baroque, the advent of humanity and fight between good and evil, blah blah blah. The perfume doesn’t really make any of that happen. The opening of the perfume isn’t forbidden, dangerous, or complicit, if I’m to follow the brand along, but perhaps more like the scene of the creation of Earth. It’s an explosion of all things coming into existence at once and barely able to contain themselves. Hot alcohol vapors and caramel-vanillic rum notes, big whollops of cold green herbs, nose tingling citrus, and the strange fatty, white, tropical creaminess of coconut. A full spectrum of note types. When someone presses down on as many piano keys as they can, the opening smells like that sounds. Bizarre and attention grabbing.