![]() ![]() It’s a distinctly human smell, one that’s neither good nor bad, it just is. Nicotine, alcohol, something floral (vapes?), sweat and a mixture of perfumes. She gets in the car and I smell an evening on K Road. She adds her own Jo Malone (wood sage and sea salt) which helps, and I assure her it just takes a while to settle in.įive hours later, at 2.30am, I pick her up again. It’s a small house and I can smell it in every room. “I smell bad!” she yells, walking around the house and fanning her front. To honour her upcoming trip, she takes the bottle and gives a hearty spray down the inside front of her shirt. She used to live on K Road and when I’d asked her what her strongest scent memories were, she replied: “piss, synnies, Curionoir Pablo, asphalt, bus”. I show her the bottle and insist that it ended up smelling alright. I take the bottle home after work and my partner is, fittingly, getting ready to go to K Road on a Friday night – to work the door at Whammy Bar. Not bad! Stings the nostrils (Image: Anchorman) With a bit of human (why does that sound so gross) smell, it becomes an earthy, bittersweet scent with just a hint of petrol. The sweet notes find their way through and mix more with my clothing. But as the afternoon stretches on and the scent settles in, it starts to smell…quite good. I sit at my desk feeling like Brian Fantana in Anchorman. ![]() And smelling like K Road is all well and good, but not in an office setting. Because here’s the thing: it smells like K Road. It’s genuinely overwhelming and I’m scared to walk around the office too much as people will notice. There’s metal, as promised, and definitely a bit of petrol and alcohol, and not much else. ![]() The smell is instant, an assault on the senses. ![]() There’s not much to it but a hint of…oil? I spray once on my wrist and a lot squirts out. I remove the lid and sniff the nozzle, as is custom. All proceeds will be donated to Lifewise. The locations for sales each day will be posted on the K Road instagram account for the next six weeks (today there are 10 bottles at The Caker). It’s a limited edition run, with only 150 being sold and only on K Road (no online sales). It’s a real perfume that would look at home in any duty free gift shop. The bottle itself is a standard, sharp-edged, heavy glass with an even heavier chunk of concrete (allegedly from K Road itself) for the lid. Vacuum-sealed in a silver packet, this bottle is ready for war. So what does Road by Karangahape smell like?įirstly, the packaging is excellent. Taare promises a “special occasion perfume” with a “surprising magnetic smell that will compel deep nostalgia in anyone within the wearer’s radius.” (Images: Supplied/Motion Sickness) “What makes a perfume interesting is contrast, the pairing of potentially off-putting notes with the pleasant ones, and the finding that balance.” “All great perfumes contain ‘bad smells’ and ‘good smells’, and K Rd contains those things in droves,” he said in a statement. Nathan Taare, chief scentsmith at OF BODY, says it’s all about using every smell, delicious and disgusting, to make the perfect scent. Launched yesterday and rather ironically produced by Wellington-based “fume-ologist” OF BODY, the perfume is a genuine attempt to bottle the smell of New Zealand’s most smell-filled street. Road by Karangahape promises all those smells and more. What does K Road smell like to you? Is it exhaust? Sweat? Nangs? Piss? Or is it the fruity smell of shisha? Uncle Man’s roti? The specific-yet-indescribable smell of Sal’s? The dust and must of the secondhand clothing stores? A new perfume promises the smell of Karangahape Road, good and bad. ![]()
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