Hi Looking Glassers, Flesh by Pekji is newly arrived at Chez Portia. My buddy Scotty bought the set as soon as they came out and brought them over for sniffing. It’s taken me a while but now I too have a set of the 2021 releases. They came all the way from Fragrances and Art because Australia has no stockist of these tempestuous beauties anymore (yes, I paid retail, they’re worth it). Omer is such a perfumista himself, and so stringently interrogative of fragrances in general, that the weird, wonderful, confronting messes he makes are also a story running along the knife edge of gorgeous and disgusting. I don’t know how he manages to do this with every single release and still make wearable perfumes that smell excellent. It’s a gift that few share. Yeah, I’m a fan, also he’s a buddy of mine.
Flesh by Pekji 2021
Fragrantica gives these featured accords:
Apricot, Spray paint, Vanilla, Iris, Ambrette (Musk Mallow), Musk, Civet, Osmanthus
Before we start on the scent I’d like to take a moment to talk about the packaging. Sensible, very heavy card, lovely print on sleeve and the holographic paper behind the perfume bottle is so beautiful on opening. Like looking at a mermaid. It’s sturdy but not an enormous wank of a box. The bottle is a simple heavy rectangle and the sprayer nozzle is so thoughtfully white against the black of the rest. Making it very easy for super blind me to see where I am spritzing. Bravo!
How does Flesh smell? Iris, but not cardboard or dough or carrot. I probably wouldn’t have smelt the spray paint but now I know it’s in the notes I keep laughing about it. It’s there alright but I probably would have called it a hair lacquer note. Powder, make up, humanity. Like a drag queen dressing room, NO like the women at the end of Death Becomes Her. THIS is what the over made up, powdered, glued together, spray painted, broken pieces of undead would smell like.
Sounds terrible? Nope, gorgeous. Fluffy and feral, but low key. Iris, leather, osmanthus and tonnes of well powdered but slightly sweaty human.
Have you tried any of the Peckji oeuvre? Favourite?
Portia x
Undina's Looking Glass 
This sounds really interesting!
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OOOH RR! I can’t remember if weird is your ham? If yes then you’ll revel, if no it’s still so wearable.
Portia xx
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Sounds nice, although I’m not wild about the name. Haven’t tried any of this line because too much perfume. LOL.
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HA! TaraC, yeah, a problem we all suffer.
The name? Flesh? Why? Is it something you don’t want to say if asked?
Portia xx
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Just not appealing to me.
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Fair enough.
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I have Omer’s first sample set but nothing from the 2021 releases. Too much time has passed for me to remember them. They are now in the “box”.
Your post has reminded me I need to review all my samples
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I’d LOVE if you went back to your sample set to hear how you like them now Alityke,
Portia x
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That sounds right up my alley. You know I’m a sucker for anything that smells industrial, strange, or plasticky!
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Daisy, I think we have some serious frag love cross over. I love an industrial, strange or plastic note too. One day we should compare collections.
Portia xx
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Never heard of the brand, but am chuckling at “spray paint”. ;)
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Hi there Vanessa,
If you ever want to find a brand that is mind glowingly out there yet manages to remain wearable and only slightly confrontational then Peckji is a good place to start.
Yeah, I’ thinking the skate crew should know about this perfume. No officer, I wasn’t tagging. It’s my perfume.
Portia xx
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This was my favorite of Omer’s newer bunch! I’m with you, it smells like someone completely made up or even fake but, then turns around completely and is so addictively cozy!
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Hey DubaiScents,
So good to see you here.
It’s a weird thing to be so easy wear. Glad you liked it too.
Did you have a fave from the first set?
Portia x
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