Recommending 13 songs like perfumes for the cold spell before spring, inspired by Gumamina’s Odette and Odile

BOYS AND GIRLS

Boys and Girls (1985)

Nose: Bryan Ferry

Boys and Girls: Sin

Main notes

Asphalt, Saffron, Jasmine, Absinthe, Dragon Blood Resin

This bruise town is a strange and steamy jungle, but you are a strange friend. Have you told me your name? Do you have someplace you need to be? Are you meeting Death tonight, or is it Love first?

10/10

https://open.spotify.com/track/21pDyGWIblgpeDTi3SjP9q?si=f45baca67f1a4ac2 

RIGHT BETWEEN THE EYES

4 Way Street (1971)

Nose: Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

Right Between the Eyes: A Man Is…

Main notes

Star Apple, Blue Poppy, Night Blooming Cereus, Marzipan, Dreamwood

A man who looks a man right between the eyes. Yes we are blind, but we won’t be much longer. I feel your pain, do you feel my pain? Things do not change, we change. Herald the Water-Bearer.

8/10

https://open.spotify.com/track/2d0l1nUvvECLlQOCHTHHG8?si=a4adac0836fd4c6b 

SLEEPING BEAUTY

Carnival of Souls (2000)

Nose: Miranda Sex Garden

Sleeping Beauty: Spindle of Blue Vein

Main notes

Blood, Winterberry, Dried Rose, Acetyl Furan, Cedar

Prince is late. But for just a moment he thinks True Love’s Kiss might still work. Her skin is Mottled and Cold-But under the briars her heart is Red, Wild, Free. Prince moves her hair out of her face-No, he has come too late.

7/10

https://open.spotify.com/track/18wPoAvIMAksYAtmn1vllY?si=aa5fa469d7984f72 

LOTUS FLOWER

Tearwave (2007)

Nose: Tearwave

Lotus Flower: Shalom

Main notes

Lotus, Apple Blossom, Condensed Milk, White Chocolate, Blood

Translucent teeth from childhood vomiting. If I were both The Groomer and Groomed, The Trapper and Trapped, The Wolf and Rabbit, then who would need me-who would hold me-who would love me? 

8/10

https://open.spotify.com/track/5PgYqQEFDXkLktHyiJ1mOz?si=5c5b6fc642cc409f 

PLACID

Walk Softly, A Dream Lies Here (1994)

Nose: This Ascension

Placid: Empty Wolf

Main notes

Fig Tree, Burnt Sugar, Raspberry, Tuberose, Musk, Aldehydes

Did you scrape your chin? Don’t be scared. Are you scared? I used to be scared of them too. I said Don’t be scared. Damp fur-Hidden sugar fear-Cornered in the dark. Did you just flinch? Did you not hear me?

9/10

https://open.spotify.com/track/2Kjd9i3quhzvcxqcZItYCs?si=565bc1ec969d4b08 

I ADORE YOU

Taxidermy (2000)

Nose: Queenadreena

I Adore You: I’ll Eat From Your Hands

Main notes

Datura, Zefir, Ylang-Ylang, Biscuit, Musk

Please come up. You know small birds need to eat more, and I fear everyone but You. Will you come on up? No glass in the window anymore. Does that scare me? Only until You turn on the light.

8/10

https://open.spotify.com/track/1BbDZgQZYGJGiheuQ3HdLD?si=21258ec713b74fcd 

MY ONLY LOVE

Flesh + Blood (1980)

Nose: Roxy Music

My Only Love: When You Need To Know You Remember Me

Main notes

Hazelnut, White Willow, Oakmoss, Honeysuckle, Lakewater

He will sleep with his hand in the water. He will have been crying, wet face in the soft grass, under the shadow of love. Then I should tell him “You’re making the water pure, just sleeping and crying like that”, but I will have left him already.

10/10

https://open.spotify.com/track/0Gy2Mq49a3qb79jwlEa59o?si=cb370a78e70445f9 

LOST

Lustre (2009)

Nose: Claire Voyant

Lost: Whether He Has A Heart Or Not, It Won’t Change The Fact That I Love Him

Main notes

Smoke, Ylang-Ylang, Smoketree, Candied Lemon, Forget Me Not

If the only person who could love you was the person who loved all living things, you would do anything to save him too. I swear it wasn’t me who hurt him. He just got stuck in a dream. I have him. I mean his head on my lap.

8/10

https://open.spotify.com/track/1ZVP3RlBFrvjPV22UxSQmP?si=7c08c30e4a254fb3 

HER

Claire Voyant (2010)

Nose: Claire Voyant

Her: Hope

Main notes

Frankincense, Myrrh, Labdanum, Patchouli, Vanilla

She won’t remember your secrets because she doesn’t dream. Don’t give her dreams. If she had wanted to learn how to swim she would have said that-But what good would it do now? If I am her I have damned her. 

9/10

https://open.spotify.com/track/1qFhfXR1OEaRXHwWxRLd6R?si=b4ea162abdd747c2 

ROSARIA

Metronom (2017)

Nose: Die Milch

Rosaria: Märchenwald

Main notes

Dreamwood, Dark Chocolate, Black Currant Blossom, Cedar

Rosaria lies in the forest of love, has lost the key to the chest of love, surrenders herself to the dark night of love… Rosaria in the maze of thorns, bewitched, bewitched, let her sleep like this…

9/10

https://open.spotify.com/track/0h9afL35KZRPbGWUGqh8Tk?si=4b5c50b3c4604b36 

感情生活

唱遊 (1998)

Nose: Faye Wong

感情生活: HDCD

Main notes

Seawater, Ambergris, Peach, Osmanthus, Honey

Legend, Not love. Blowing bubbles in sugar water. Avoiding long nights. If he asked me to come into the water I would-But it’s hard to measure the depth because of the seafoam, and I have weak nerves.

10/10

https://open.spotify.com/track/60QRSdOkLycKdx4nid6Qbm?si=712e5b3074814ca5 

TRUE LOVE WAITS

A Moon Shaped Pool (2016)

Nose: Radiohead

True Love Waits: Whatever Forever

Main notes

Milk, Toffee, Marshmallow, Benzoin, Juniper, Tonka

Candied cobwebs-Twisted ankles-Dusty baby hair. I’d do anything for you and unless you’re sick or in trouble you don’t even know I’m alive. When I asked your niece for her nice blouse I was doing it for you.

8/10

https://open.spotify.com/track/07XaOyTS5hyaWiUK1Bc3bR?si=2f7525ad08354439 

CALCIUM NEEDLES

Small Craft On A Milk Sea (2010)

Nose: Brian Eno, Jon Hopkins, and Leo Abrahams

Calcium Needles: Child Tool Afraid

Main notes

Milk, Aldehydes, Birch Tar, Pistachio, Heliotrope

Crawl to me for your shot if you won’t get up-No the next one will be the last one-This one for your hands which are prone to disengagement-I can’t help you hold your fork forever-This one for your heart-No the next one will be the last one.

9/10

https://open.spotify.com/track/0IOakztmCAALc10W2A6iaV?si=a79395f8502f4341