“The smell of something worse than death”: I tried the Internet’s most divisive cologne

“The smell of something worse than death”: I tried the Internet’s most divisive cologne

““This fragrance has severely degraded my life and it will take a few weeks to recover,” writes fragrance reviewer @aksf789 of Amouage’s Opus XIII Silver Oud. “Certainly the worst fragrance I have ever smelled and likely the worst smell in general I have ever experienced. The perfumer belongs in federal prison for life after creating this atrocity to the human race. This is the smell of something worse than death.”

_{September 16, 2025 at 11:38PM}