Only A Witch Cat is a limited edition Halloween fragrance. It is a spooky season ode to Nobuhiko Obayashi’s brilliant 1977 cult classic HAUSU - nods to the dressing table of Auntie, the Japanese countryside, and of course, the famous melon scene. Generously spritz yourself with this before a Hausu watch party, or wear it to enchant a piano and dance with a skeleton. It smells like a compact of powder on your vanity, a cool & sinister breeze and psychedelic horrors beyond the earthly realm. With notes of shiso leaf, climbing vines, melon, coriander and powdered makeup. Only A Witch Cat is an eau de parfum, edp.
PEARFAT PARFUM ONLY A WITCH CAT REVIEWS
Unquiet Things: If I recall correctly this was a film wherein Toho, attempting to replicate the commercial success of American movies like Jaws, hired a renowned ad-man known for his creativity and aesthetics to make a blockbuster movie…and then this man enlisted his 12 year old daughter to help. I love that story, and it made for one of my all-time favorite films. With notes of shiso leaf and climbing vines, melon and coriander, and powdered compact, this is a fragrance of melancholic breezes tangling gorgeous powdery citrus shampoo-perfumed hair, fraught with a crisp, crushed oppressive green tension. It’s a scent of loss, lost love, lost youth, and ghosts and spectres shadowed by generations of loss. For all that, it’s not a dense or heavy scent, it’s light and flimmering, but you can feel its presence–like the gaze on the back of your neck, like movement from the corner of your eye, like a past that you can’t escape.
Parfumo: As a lover of House/Hausu (1977), the movie that inspired this fragrance, I bought this mostly as a curiosity and collector's piece, and am very pleased at how wearable it is. This scent is green, fresh, and dewy, with a pleasantly crisp and tart melon note that sticks around on my skin much longer than I thought it would. Though I mostly get the melon, there's a smoothness that I attribute to the "makeup powder" note which reads as a creamy iris-like note, which cuts some of the tartness and makes it a very easy, wearable fresh scent. The opening of the scent is very strong and green, almost peppery and smoky, but do not let the opening fool you, the lingering impression is as light and fresh as a music box melody. Quirky but wearable, deeply fun, and a cool bit of memorabilia for lovers of fragrance and the movie House.
