M5 Where We Are There Is No Here by CB I Hate Perfume

$135 for a bottle of invisible perfume makes me think of the "Emperor's New Clothes" hush you silly boy, only the most superior and intelligent of us can see his fantastic outfit. He most certainly is not nude, he is fully clothed and smelling fantastic. it's such an absurd gimmick, it just may work...but not for me. My poor underdeveloped conscious demands stimulation too.

The following is a commentary by an "Average Joe" and in no way reflects the thoughts of the fragrance community.
Where ever in the world you may be, please read the following out loud with a "working class" accent.


Cop a squat, we're about to start...

Greetings to you my Internet friends, I am "Average Joe"... Let me begin this here commentary with this delightfully flowery dollop of doo-doo that MR. CB uses to shill this scent he calls the antithesis of perfume...

" "Invisible" is a good description for the entire fragrance, which is created to be nearly undetectable, perceived only at the subconscious level and in the realm of the imagination."

Well, Jesus Christ in a chicken basket, am I on earth?

Or did I just get transported to planet Stoopid, part of the Dumbass solar system, in the Galaxy of Ignoramus?

So let me get dis straight...you're going to sell me a perfume that I CAN'T SMELL?!

No. No. Never.

Oh, ok good.

You're going to sell me a perfume I CAN BARELY SMELL?

YES.

Oh, that makes it all bet...WAIT WHAAAAAAATTT!!!!!!

So, you're basically going to take a bottle of real perfume and water it down so you can fill 100 bottles of your "CB I Hate Perfume" with it and sell it for the same price?!? I could do that at home for nothing!!!

Crap sandwich! The entire world has just been slipped a roofie. We must all be asleep right now, cause if we were all conscious this couldn't possibly happen.

So why make this crap anyway?

Because he says it was "created to be nearly undetectable, perceived only at the subconscious level"?

And CB has the balls to slap the perfume industry in the face by calling his product "CB I Hate Perfume"?

Does CB need the money that bad?

I am going to skip buying this "anti-perfume" and do my OWN home diluting so I can impress my friends with my perfume that no one except hound dogs and pregnant women can smell. And when they come over to sniff my new fragrance, I'll be wearing my new pants and new underwear...don't tell anyone, but they're i n v i s i b l e too.

I have a depressing suspicion that this is the equivalent of the art world highly valuing cardboard and concrete and blood slapped together in a guy's basement, thinking that it says something about the alienation of man's local truth in his subservient self-denial, or something.

I am a little confused about this...
presumably my subconscious is also connected to the single nose i have growing out of my face (i checked but have noticed no other noses growing on me).
Thus if it is undetectable to my conscious, i think my subconscious will also not give it much notice.

$135 for a bottle of perfume with an almost undetectable fragrance....I think this might just be an really elaborate joke, like when they give cheap box wine to professional wine connoisseurs and tell them its some rare vintage

I share everyone's curiosity about this scent. :-)

I am hoping I'll get a chance to try it when I visit New York in the next few days to attend the Elements Showcase.

"Invisible" is a good description for the entire fragrance, which is created to be nearly undetectable, perceived only at the subconscious level and in the realm of the imagination.

I guess I don't understand this part of the concept; isn't everything we perceive in the physical world ultimately perceived and understood through our individual imaginations anyway? Hence, the variety reviews on this site?

:/

I like the idea of alternatives to alcohol solutions for fragrances though.

And maybe invisible cash to pay for it! LOL! Where we are there is no here? It sounds like a Twilight Zone episode. Weeeeeeeeeiiirrrrrrd. Well hopefully it doesn't smell like a**.

is it only me who has enough of the "this is something totally new, it is not a perfume" hype? this said, i like his source of inspiration, and i d like to smell the scent too

Invisible fragrance, eh? Half of me thinks 'Hmmm pretentious...' and the other half of me thinks 'Wow, deep, let me at it!' *has invisible cup of tea and invisible scone* :P