Sacred Whore Of Babylon
Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab

Company description: And upon her forehead was a name written, Mystery, Babylon the Great, the Mother of Harlots and Abominations of the Earth. An ancient formula that inspires unrepentant decadence, lechery and debauch.


The description does not exactly give you much to work with, does it? My notes read: almonds, cherries, cinnamon, clove, white floral, and dragon blood resin. Possibly not the most accurate list ever, but surely enough to give you a vague idea of the general tone of Sacred Whore of Babylon. It is, in essence, a luridly-spiced cherry bomb with the poisoned-apple bitterness of cyanide.

As you might surmise, it smells highly unnatural, syrupy, and loud. Later on, when the thick wall of cherry-almond fudge parts a little, it is possible to smell the beginnings of a heavy floral note, possibly jasmine or Casablanca lily. Some reviews peg the note as gardenia, but there is nothing of that flower’s buttery ‘cream cheese’ character. Picture instead the kind of fuchsia-pink flower you find plonked in a beach-side cocktail.

Sacred Whore is a total sledgehammer of a scent. It possesses, I suppose, a rough and ready sexiness that might appeal to girls on the pull, though the artificial cherry note makes it difficult to recommend to anyone who is not in the sixteen-to-eighteen age group. (Mind you, recommending something called Sacred Whore of Babylon to a teenage girl is a bit dodgy).