Be Very Afraid is a Fall 2024 limited edition fragrance. It is a floral herbal fragrance that takes inspiration from the films of undisputed king of body horror, David Cronenberg. It is both beautiful and unsettling. Opening with the sweet, enticing floral of champaca and ylang ylang, it transforms into a gritty, green tangle punctuated by hints of skin and sweat.
This fragrance is for those who seek metamorphosis through scent, and aren’t afraid to step into the darkness. It smells like checking under your bed for monsters, paranoia, a walk in the dark on a fall evening and changing into a fly which is captured with notes of TV static, red champaca blooms, flesh, cannabis buds, tarragon and ambergris. Be Very Afraid is an eau de parfum, edp.
PEARFAT PARFUM BE VERY AFRAID REVIEWS
Reddit: Let me tell you. It is WEIRD. But it has a not-so-scary, very wearable drydown! Here's my review... Be Very Afraid assaults your senses with an acrid, bitter burst that leaves the impression of scorching the back of your throat - not the actual sensation, but what that might smell like if it were a scent. It's reminiscent of a blast of canned air and clingy plastic on cold metal, with an undercurrent of something inexplicably familiar yet eerily alien. Scorched rubber morphs into singed leather as ozone crackles on deranged wavelengths and electricity arcs through your fingertips. It evokes a storm cloud wearing a leather mask, or a tuft of cotton candy spun from TV static - a harbinger of the chimeric evolution to come. Within seconds, it shifts and softens, mutating radically. The initial character lingers, but it's altered into a much gentler thing. That leather storm deconstructs into a whisper of quantum foam infused with dermal matrix nanofibers; bioengineered herbs emerge with a faint electric hum, while tendrils of ionized spectral vapors delicately intertwine with a moss-derived floral musk pulsing softly in a miniature supercollider of scent. On the skin, it continues to evolve, the original identity fragmenting and recombining as that once confrontational and unsettling opening transforms into something unnervingly inviting, now floating just at the edge of awareness. The scent's newly fleshed final form is a metamorphosis complete - subtly strange and softly electric, yet no longer unsettling. The dry-down reveals a sophisticated, green, barely-there tingle in a woody-mossy framework that feels both molecularly aseptic and ingeniously verdant. This enigmatic synthesis evokes an angel gently resequenced in a lab, emerging from a whisper-quiet decontamination chamber - a seamless fusion of the otherworldly and the synthetic. What began as something exceptionally weird has settled into an infinitely wearable fragrance that still carries ethereal echoes of its uncanny origins.
Reddit: To me, it smelled just like TV static when wet, or rather it had the same vibes as the ambient smell in an old video rental place. Then I got a burst of herbal cannabis with the earthiness/muskiness from the ambergris (like they blended together to create an entire new scent). This scent is so unique, completely unlike anything else I've ever tried before.
