How brave are you feeling today? For episode 180 of Love At First Scent, Max Forti and I challenged ourselves to come up with a list of the most daring, most courageous perfumes in our collections. Cue: lots and lots of truly frightening descriptions, and some entertaining banter in the live chat. Here’s a link: Top 10 most daring perfumes.

If you’re pressed for time, here’s a list of the scents we covered, with timestamps:

Geoffrey Beene Grey Flannel 2:45
Zoologist Bat 6:30
Dior Leather Oud 11:45
Etat Libre D’Orange Secretions Magnifiques 15:45
Frederic Malle Musc Ravageur 22:15
Frederic Malle Superstitious 26:30
Swiss Arabian Dehn Al Oodh Malaki 31:15
Amouage Fate Man 36:00
Comme Des Garcons Synthetic: Tar 40:45
Dior Fahrenheit 46:15

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