Allen Ginsberg-Howl Perfume Oil
Price range: $24.00 through $95.00
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness...
---Allen Ginsberg Howl
Perhaps the iconic poem of the Beat Generation, Howl needed to be cast as a perfume. By "cast" we mean to make a mold of it, as in the lost wax process, so that you can feel the time it portrays with your mind through scent. This was a time of big perfumes, the discovery of patchouli, cigarette smoke, chypre with a wild touch of something from the east. There was sweat and sex, the world was discovered for the first time.
Possets' interpretation of Howl is unabashedly sexy, driven mad by welling passions. Black, red and amber musks wrestle furiously with sandalwood and opium tar resin. There is nothing light or gentle about this scent. A burning incense backs it up, black patchouli stands in the forefront. Dark, musky, resinous.
Tremendously savage, dark and sweet like molasses rather than sugar.
...and yet, there is something innocent about it all.
You can find the EDP spray version of Howl here.
Additional information
| Weight | 0.07 lbs |
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| Dimensions | 2 × 0.75 × 0.75 in |
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4 reviews for Allen Ginsberg-Howl Perfume Oil
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Melissa –
This is such a unique scent and one of my favorites from Possets for sure! On my skin this is a musky resinous patchouli scent with a chocolate-like molasses twang. I’ve never smelled anything quite like it. It lasts and lasts on my scent eating skin and I can smell it on my clothes well into the next day. This is a wonderful scent for the Fall and Winter months but honestly, I rock this bad boy all year round.
Wendy –
Biscuity opening that rapidly darkens with heavy spices and black musk. A smouldering heat entwined with the cool Possets chypre. Powdery edge. Deep and curious. As it dries down, other, creamier musks come into play amongst sweet incense and spices.
JOANN WHEELER –
Working my way through the new goodies from Possets — I love the samples option! This one is sheer time-travel for me — Haight-Ashbury (not that I was there, I was in Pittsburgh, buying cone incense at A Shop Called East). It is dark behind the beaded curtain and a little funky, a little animal, even a little medicinal — is that Tiger Balm under the long, cool patchouli flourish? This one will not be a regular for me but it packs a wallop in the nostalgia department. It evokes an entire era and does Allen Ginsberg proud!
Melody Konrad (verified owner) –
This is THE holy grail scent for me. Sexy, dark, lingering and powerful, this scent is scrumptiously chocolate, musky in a sexed up, animal way, and the patchouli is a smooth, gorgeous kiss, not a hippie or head shop nose bomb. I office tested this bad boy, and my coworkers went as wild for it as I did. The highest praise I think I can give it came from one said coworker, who went to go scrub it after a brief stint on her skin- not because she disliked it, but because she said, and I quote: “If my husband smells this on me, he’s gonna wonder what I was out doing and with who.” Sexy, masculine but not overwhelmingly male, confidence imbuing, this is my holy grail scent.