Allen Ginsberg-Howl EDP Spray

Price range: $8.00 through $57.00

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.

We only sell EDPs inside the continental United States. All EDPs contain perfumer’s alcohol, which can only be shipped by ground transport, so all orders that include an EDP must ship by ground. We apologize for any inconvenience.

 

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Weight0.25 lbs
Dimensions4.5 × 1 × 1 in
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2 reviews for Allen Ginsberg-Howl EDP Spray

  1. Michelle (verified owner)

    Howl (the oil) has been one of my favorites for more than a decade, as I love the rich, dark scent with just a tad of sweetness. The EDP delivers the same punch of musky patch except it is longer lasting as you can spray it on clothes as well.

  2. Ginny (verified owner)

    Darkly sweet, magnetic in a sad way. When my parents had me in the orchestra in elementary school, we were only supposed to use light rosin. I know now that there were practical reasons for that, but at the time I imagined all the good grown-up orchestras were probably using rosin that was darker and richer and better in every other way (and of course, the best players in the kids’ orchestra probably had some and were holding out on the rest of us). In my head, before I knew dark rosin was just rosin, this is what I thought it might smell like

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