TEN was created to celebrate Smell Bent's Tenth Anniversary. It's based on the traditional 10th anniversary gift of aluminum and blends a family of ingredients which create the olfactory illusion of metal. TEN features notes of frankincense smoke, dry spice, ozone, aluminum sheeting and liquid wood.
Smell Bent TEN Reviews
Fragrantica: As a fragrance puzzle, it was a fascinating one to undertake and certainly not an easy endeavor. Metals have smells that are difficult for the nose to detect easily, but they are there: the smell of oxidation and the smell of iron, copper, and brass as they react with the fatty acids on our skins. But there are also the smells that metal suggests to us: the bright spots of illuminated light bouncing off bright metal surfaces, the scruff of steel wool, and the cool sensation of holding an aluminum tray in your hand. Brent approached this illustrative process intuitively, using materials often associated with incense or ice - ozone, the smoke from burnt frankincense. More specifically, he created an aluminum sheeting accord and what he refers to as "liquid wood" (something that feels akin to "liquid smoke"). The resulting fragrance is rich with elemi resin, flashes of pink pepper juiciness, a bright opening crispness like lime, and a sweet but soft wood in the center, something like an aged cedar mixed with rosewood. I like the way it melds with skin to form a very sweet and gently woody scent reminiscence of its more electric beginning as the day wears on, finally resting on a fully wood-based ending. It's a curious and effective experiment in the realm of smell depiction.
