Mortal Skin Stéphane Humbert Lucas 2015

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Mortal Skin is a popular perfume by Stéphane Humbert Lucas for women and men and was released in 2015. The scent is spicy-woody. It is still available to purchase.

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Stéphane Humbert Lucas

Fragrance Notes

Top Notes	Blackberry Saffron Cardamom
Heart Notes	Opoponax Iris
Base Notes	Musk Ambergris Sandalwood

Ratings

Scent

8.3350 Ratings

Longevity

7.6308 Ratings

Sillage

6.8306 Ratings

Bottle

9.2305 Ratings

Value for money

6.651 Ratings

Submitted by Hermesh, last update on 24.01.2022.

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05/06/2021

9.5
Scent 9
Longevity 9
Sillage 10
Bottle 7
Pricing

Haschm
16 Reviews

Haschm

Dry skin

The beginning is very, very juicy. This is dominated by fresh forest fruit. But the ink comes with the fruit hand in hand. The process fades away and the aroma becomes mostly dry. Dads, the dryness evokes the dry, stripped skin of a snake. It is a specific scent, definitely for those who already have something to smell. I'm curious about spring and summer as they sound. Due to the strong dryness, it does not seem optimal to me in the bitter frosts, when the humidity is minimal.

03/17/2021

6.5
Scent 4
Longevity

Friesin

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Friesin

Top Review 39

FrisianHerb

"Everything with the calm and then with a jerk",
that is such a typical Frisian saying. The Friesian is not a friend of many words, while others are still chatting is tackled. The cliché that "Moin, Moin" is already babble, because "Moin" is also enough, comes not by chance. I've been living in exile for a long time now, but when I return home, when the sky opens up and I can look into the distance again without being distracted, I immediately regain my composure and focus on the essentials. Boasting and extroversion are as suspect to the Frisian as vegetarian food and yoga.
This stubborn attitude towards new things is often annoying, but at least honest. With the opinion is not kept behind'm mountain, it is spoken openly, what one says, one means also in such a way - clear edge This may sometimes come across harsh, but if you take a little time, you can see a wide heart, even if you just got to hear "Orange sneakers? Dor in de Stadt machen se dich kaputt . So, sit down, drink tea ! "

Frisian review of ' Mortal Skin ' S.H. Lucas
The bottle is already times so of "over", no Friesian I know, would want this gold glitter EdHardymäßige snake part at home.
The name is as striking as it is strange, and one wonders if a fragrance needs such a constucted skin-changing story.
One is relieved, however, that is not in what it says.
So, let's get to the inner values.
A loud prelude with blackberries, cardamom and ink, there I smell and marvel. This is exciting and I have not smelled so yet.
Incense I can still detect and a touch of leather. All together gives a pleasant spicy warmth with this special Tintentwist, really very convincing.,. Only, as so often, after a fulminant start, is weakened on the long haul. Promising so much, 'Mortal Skin' becomes more and more cloying, arbitrary and skin-deep when musk and amber are added. And after 3 to 4 hours, the snake is dead.
The idea of the composition can be guessed and is really nice, in the long run, however, more calm and power would have done the whole thing good.

Cheers, tea !

29 Replies

01/29/2021

9
Scent 7
Longevity 6
Sillage 9
Bottle 7
Pricing

FioreMarina

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FioreMarina

Top Review 43

Rockstar

When did we actually bury rock 'n' roll? Did we bury it together with Kurt Cobain, its last, tragic hero? Did he go over the Rainbow Bridge with David Bowie, wrapped in stardust and weeping with shimmering tears? Did he perhaps simply take the fate of a Keith Richards, to grow old and survive wise and all, even himself in the end?
What actually happened that we stopped debating the provocation of a trashed hotel room, or the radical feminism of groupies? Instead, I listen with growing dismay to a federal drug commissioner who, after careful consideration, concludes that cannabis is not broccoli, and take irritated note of a penetratingly fresh-looking Gwyneth Paltrow on Netflix promoting orgasms as an anti-aging concept, part of the Daily Workout, as it were. Christ, where, I wonder, did we lose rock 'n' roll along the way?
And: am I the only one who misses it?
As of today, I at least believe there is one person who knows what I mean. That one person, Stephane Humbert Lucas, created Mortal Skin. And Mortal Skin is rock 'n' roll.
The provocation starts with the bottle. Shiny black, glittering gold. And with my grudging admission that, despite my painstakingly refined tastes over the years and 180 hours of instructional analysis, I do find this golden cobra on a black background almost as hot as a Red Hot Chili Peppers performance, and somehow already pretty good.
In this moment of admission, the scent makes a promise.
It's the promise of a concert hall, filled to bursting, the moment the lights go down. When the drummer counts in and all you hear is the sticks clacking on each other.
When you hold your breath for a few seconds and your pulse races. When the crowd pushes into the small of my back with the hard force of a storm wave, and the barrier pushes into my stomach from the front. The promise of something wonderful about to happen.
Press spray button, spot on the band, and what happens next is as wild and untamed as it is intimate and tender: it's the sensation of warm, fragrant, breathing skin. Of course, I can now claim that this impression comes from leather, ambergris, musk, and civet, but if I'm being completely honest, I can't smell any of those scents out. I just get this impression of skin, subtle, unobtrusive, soft and beautiful. On top of that, like a second track, is something sacral, frankincense and myrrh, and that fits very well, rock 'n' roll is always cult too. Woody and powdery notes, all very finely tuned to each other, give the perfume the depth of an intense experience, and all the time the fragrance stays very close to me. Only a true rock star can do that: that feeling of intensity and exclusivity for every single person in the crowd - and it's wonderful, "like making love to a hundred thousand people". It's crossing boundaries, from this-side blackberry to other-side styrax, transcendence and fusion and party and fun.
I'm heading over to my record collection. Free Mötley Crüe from the thin layer of dust. Sum Absolute Beginners in front of me and suddenly know: the rock 'n' roll is not dead. It's alive, as long as there are people like you and me. And a scent like Mortal Skin.

28 Replies

12/28/2020

10
Scent 7
Longevity 7
Sillage 10
Bottle

Gandix

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Gandix

Top Review 37

The Wolf and the Girl

Silent silence,
the forest coal black.
Cautiously, I put one step in front of the next.
Suddenly, the back of my neck starts to tingle,
Adrenaline rushes into my blood.
I start running,
trampled flowers line my path.
Threads of myrrh hang in my face.
I feel something is beside me,
behind me,
in front of me.
It makes no sense.
I stop.

Eyes stare at me from the darkness...
gleaming, menacing....
My breathing is heavy.
You step out of their circle,
proud, erect.
Your eyes, black as ink rest on me.
They are attentive,
yet somehow sad.
My fear falls away from me.
I bow my head and kneel,
to submit.
You circle me,
sniff me,
rubbing your spicy-fruity fur against me,
to mask my human scent.
Acceptance.
Your pack still looks warily,
but one look from you
and they humbly lie down on the ground.
Then you settle down beside me
and show me your flank.
So great your trust.
I smell the warm, balmy amber scent
of your soft, black fur.

Suddenly I can feel it between my fingers,
the wound, still wet.
Tears come to my eyes,
who did this to you?
Hectically I search for something
to clean the wound.
Blackberry leaves,
still damp from the rain...
i wipe them out with this...
make a fire...
burn it out...
You howl for a moment.. but lie still.
Still this blind trust.
Smell the myrrh on my face...
disinfect with it...
Then I lie down with you,
safe, protected.
I know you would defend me
until my last breath.

Many days go by...
You carry me...
We roam the woods.
I have long since left my humanity behind...
You are my companions...
Have long since joined the pack.
So carefree
So beautiful
So free.

Even now I feel I'm flying on your back.
Suddenly your run slows,
you stop.
I feel the tension under my thighs,
even before I see the hairs on the back of your neck stand up.
You look at me,
in your eyes that look,
it tells me 'you have to go now, you better not be here'.
I want to resist but your attitude brooks no opposition.
That's when I hear it, the voices,
the gunshots my heart grows heavy...
You stride to the clearing, your stance so proud...
I want to go after...
The pack is grouping around me,
i know they want to protect me,
it was your order.
My pulse is racing...
My heart is so heavy...
The bang...
no one can hold me anymore...
I scream and cry...
run to you...
My heart is bursting...
your eyes are empty....

And I still cry,
when I lie in front of the fireplace
on your fur.
I smell the leather,
wet with tears.
My soul is broken...
My heart aches aloud...

In that place
irises now bloom for you...
Even though your shell has passed away,
in my heart you are immortal....
This fragrance is so complex. It is for me less fragrance, but primarily feeling.
Mystical, somber, proud...yet at the same time full of warmth, security, connection, sadness
and freedom.
It is full of emotion.

29 Replies

11/21/2020

9
Scent 8
Longevity 8
Sillage 10
Bottle

Bastian

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Bastian

Top Review 19

Mystical elegance

A month and a half ago I received a sample of Mortal_Skin. I had to say that the scent had really captivated me.
Today I received a bottle of a great perfume sent to me.
And I can only say that I am very proud to own this beautiful and noble and truly unique bottle.
I will not and cannot break down the fragrance into its fragrance components. What's inside is written at the top of the pyramid of scents.
What interests me is the result of the composition.
And it's truly mighty class!
The fragrance seems mystical.....elegant to me...seductive.....stylish and not really explainable.
Whether other fragrances smell similar, I don't care Mortal_Skin smells like Mortal_Skin and that is brilliant.
A fragrance I can't wear all the time.
But for special moments, moments, this is exactly the right fragrance.
Greeting Sebastian

13 Replies

09/25/2020

9
Scent 9
Longevity 7
Sillage 10
Bottle

DarkWinterCS

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DarkWinterCS

Very helpful Review 12

The snake kills quickly

There he is now. At last, I almost have to say. I've been looking for this fragrance for so long, and I finally got a sample. (Many thanks again to the generous donor). Mortal Skin, the red snake flacon with the glittering eyes. I had already tested his brother Harrods and was very impressed, but not sure how to evaluate this differentiated work. But I can already foresee that it will not be easier for me to make a final decision with Mortal Skin. So many notes, so many chords and such a mixture, as one finds it so rarely.

In general, it must be said that the fragrances of Stephane Humbert Lucas are always something special and stand out clearly from the mass of common fragrances. Whether it's certain chords that you don't expect or fragrances that don't want to fit into the fragrance pyramid at all. But there is always a way to create special perfumes which are more than just a means to smell good. In the case of Black Gemstone and Harrods, fragrances have told whole stories, aroused emotions and given a feeling that you can't get with most fragrances. But it is not only the fragrance itself that is convincing. It's also the general presentation and presentation in the high-quality and artistically attractive flacons.

I will first talk about Mortal Skin and then show the differences to Harrods, which smells quite different.
In any case, MortalSkin is more transparent and sensitive than I had imagined. The association with the stripped skin of a snake fits perfectly, because as soft and unobtrusive as the scent attaches itself to the skin is inimitable. As with all other SHL fragrances, it is difficult to make out a clear progression for Mortal Skin, as the chords alternate relatively quickly and new components are added, creating a completely new mixture. Therefore I try to show it a little bit more pictorially again.

Also in terms of the scent pyramid, one can imagine a snake moving through a green forest through the undergrowth. While hungrily looking for its next prey, it tries to wipe off the drying old and scaly skin. On trees dripping with resin as well as on bushes it tries to get rid of the annoying cover. Suddenly she hears rustling and moving leaves in front of her. Not too far away, she is sure of that thanks to her experience. Elongated ears seem to protrude over the green. A hare, what a treat on this rather damp autumn day. The rain had stopped before and so some forest inhabitants are now walking in the thicket again. Slowly it snakes its way towards the prey, carefully and cautiously so as not to induce the victim to flee.
In slow motion she opens her mouth, the two gib teeth flash in the dark surroundings of the forest and drops of the toxic agent fall unintentionally to the ground.
The next moment: Silence No sound penetrates the forest, everything around the moment falls into a sleep. You only see little fur paws moving wildly back and forth to escape the situation. It is too late. The huge jaws have already bitten hard and inject the poison, which takes effect within seconds. Wild kicking, fast movements, it's no use. The snake has found its victim and killed him. It's the course of nature, following the food chain. The snake stands much higher up and has shown this with all its might.

In sales I have at least been able to find the following chords:
- Ink
- fruity and woody, reminiscent of a high-proof berry brandy
- powdery leather
- woody leather
- woody saffron
- dry unsweet resin of a coniferous tree
- Birch
- smoky wood
- woody cardamom

Everything in interplay, always something new, no definitive course that I could describe in simple words.
What is the shelf life and silage of this extraordinary fragrance? In something like you can imagine with this quite cuddly scent. The sillage is not excessive, which the fragrance does not want to show at all. It wants to be inconspicuous, wants to please its wearer and not be a firework display for its surroundings. On my skin, therefore, the durability is not such that the next morning I still smell intensively of the snake of the forest. The certain restraint is noticeable in the fragrance at every point of its being. If the wearer is allowed to stroll proudly around here for six to eight hours, then this is a quite realistic statement. If it's more, all the better.

Now the question has come for me, what are the differences between Mortal Skin and Harrods ?
Harrods is a little more conspicuous, a little more present and more uncompromising. The fragrance reveals a completely different appearance. Harrods is fiercely smoky and resinous, brutal and always ready for action. As dark as this fragrance presents itself, as light is the forest that Mortal Skin and its inhabitants represent. To describe it a bit more figuratively, Harrods tells the whole dark and raw story of man, while Mortal Skin wants to show the bitter reality of the peaceful forest.

Despite my faible for dark scents, I think the Mortal Skin is the better scent. Not only because I appreciate the transparency, but also because of all the DNA and design. These changing chords, the unpredictable changes in alignment always make you wonder. Once again, the brand has inspired me and created a certain urge to buy.

5 Replies

05/15/2019

8
Scent 7
Longevity 6
Sillage 9
Bottle

DonJuanDeCat

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DonJuanDeCat

Top Review 18

Writing the scent on the skin

Good evening, snoopers! Today I come to a somewhat more luxurious fragrance brand, Stéphane Humbert Lucas, of which I still have many fragrances to test, but I already know that I like this brand very much, because Taklamakan is one of my favorite fragrances, which hopefully some day will move in with me :)

Today I come to Mortal Skin. Of course, many of you who know me will now expect me to tell Nerd something about the video game series Mortal Kombat (because of the term Mortal in the fragrance name), because by chance the latest game in this series came out just a few weeks ago. And yes, despite all the brutality in the game, I like this series of games because it's just fun (and I guess I'm a sick sick idiot too :D), but I don't think it's right to combine this nice smell here with a game where you can rip out guts and stuff, eh, you didn't think I'd say that, did you? D

So, the fragrance here is called Mortal Skin, because it thematizes a renewing snake skin, i.e. how a new skin forms under the old skin. And the fragrance should also have the same effect, so it should renew itself again and again during the course of the fragrance. You'll see if that's the case. In any case, I can already say that this fragrance is very beautiful and could be noted for the autumn.

The fragrance:

The fragrance begins with sweet blackberries and spicy herbaceous scents that should come from the cistus rose. The top note now contains ink. This is very special and probably you wouldn't necessarily get it if you didn't know that it should contain ink. But as soon as you look at the scent pyramid and discover ink in it, then yes, the scent actually seems like ink to you.
Furthermore, I smell nice, but slightly weak resins like frankincense and myrrh, but here you can't say exactly what kind of resin you really smell, because it seems to be a mix of these great scents. In the background there are green notes, which could perhaps come from the galbanum. In addition, the scent of the iris is also beautifully powdery.
A little later a clear leather note is added. In the background I also smell a somehow fiery-warm note that I can't determine any further.
Towards the base one still smells light blackberries. But leather and now also woody notes smell better. The resins are a little stronger, so the fragrance remains soft (and powdery due to the iris). The amber gives a slight but fine sweetness. Otherwise there are general, spicy notes in the base in the background.
All in all, the fragrance is very beautiful.

The Sillage and the shelf life:

The charisma is rather moderate. The scent will be smellable, but only for people who are nearby, because soft and gentle scents usually have a lower charisma anyway...
But the shelf life is good, because I could smell the scent on my skin for seven to eight hours.

The bottle:

The bottle is rectangular, shiny black-gold with a mosaic card snake head whose eyes are made of Swarovski crystals. The onion-shaped lid is golden with black structures that are partially highlighted. This is supposed to be a skinning or renewing snake skin. All in all, an interestingly designed and very high-quality bottle that looks good.

Soo, I think the fragrance is really good, because it shows a lot of complexity and you can smell a lot of fragrances, which are all good and also harmonize well with each other, even if it might seem a bit special to some. According to the description, this scent should be like a snake skin that is constantly renewed. And with a little imagination, you can actually divide the fragrance into several phases, where in each phase the fragrance is redesigned and renewed. It begins with a fruity phase, which radiates a nice and unusual fragrance with the ink. In the second phase, the resins and gentle fragrances such as iris are added. Then the fragrance becomes leathery and finally the fragrance returns again to change into a woody and spicy direction.

Of course, you can only enjoy all this best if you have this fantasy in mind and are enthusiastic about the fragrance instead of saying like a philistine that everything is just the typical division into head, heart and base :D

Anyway, the fragrance is a very nice companion, especially for the evening, and I also think that despite the fruity-sweet notes and the soft-powdery fragrances, it does not come across as feminine, but as unisex. In my opinion, it is best to use it in autumn (for winter, its Sillage might be too weak).
It is one of the SHL fragrances that are definitely worth testing.

So, that's it, then. I wish you all a nice evening, until then :)

1 Replies

03/06/2019

9
Scent 8
Longevity 7
Sillage 9
Bottle

PureNeugier

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PureNeugier

Top Review 34

My (Im)Mortal Skin

I snuck around Mortal Skin for a long time. I definitely wanted to test it, but something always held me back, like a soft warning of what it could do to me.
After testing it several times, I thought for just as long about how I should put this fragrance and what it triggers in me into words. Really not easy, because this scent triggers pure feeling in me! Pure emotion - powerful, passionate and completely confused. I was not exposed to this kind of feeling for a very long time, lastly when the relationship began with my first great love after 4 years, her one-year ascent and descent to the final end.
Every single day tore me apart anew. Then deepest pain alternated with unbridled joy, all consuming longing overflowed with unbridled passion, loneliness and silence were replaced by thunderous, hurtful words to find oneself in a cosy togetherness or to lose oneself completely. But omnipresent and unbroken I always felt the love in me despite everything. Love for him.
I smell the ink with which I wrote down my diary entries, which were still regular at that time, the leather of his jacket, the scent of which I absorbed deeply when he held me in his arms, the powder I applied when I tried to hide my tears, the incense very similar to the incense sticks which often burned on our cozy evenings in his apartment to fragrant ashes...
And the song "My Immortal" from "Evanescence" was omnipresent. At that time this song was able to unite and channel all those confused emotions that raged unruly within me. The singer's voice dug deep into my heart, melody and lyrics spoke from my soul.
This relationship did not end nicely, yet it ended in love!

It may be an unusual description of the scent, but this scent cannot be captured or even approximately described for my sensation with analytical procedures. "Mortal Skin" is not for rationalists, because it gets under your skin and lets you feel what you are capable of feeling. He's a rush! Full of melancholy, longing, desire, bliss, gentleness, passion... He rummages through the body until he has upset every single synapse to numb all perception at the same moment as a narcotic and give you the gentle tranquility of a dreamless night.
A symphony of heart-rending emotions of all kinds, in which a feeling always remains omnipresent: Love...
Like "My Immortal" at that time, "Mortal Skin" touched me most intensely and intimately, so that I am absolutely addicted to this scent with skin and heart. He's a soul catcher!

18 Replies

12/17/2018

8
Scent 10
Longevity 7
Sillage 9
Bottle

Mydarkflower

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Mydarkflower

Top Review 30

The little fear

"Mortal Skin" was on my watch list from the beginning.
I found the name incredibly fascinating.
How do you think the scent of mortal skin, i.e. that of every human being and perhaps also that of every animal, is converted into bottles?
Can this succeed?

I don't know the answer even after repeated tests yet, but yes, "Mortal Skin" reminds me of certain situations of being alive.

First of all the summers of my last school years.
As soon as school was over, I dashed home, grabbed my swimsuits and cycled to the outdoor pool.
I stayed there until I was totally exhausted from swimming and the blazing sun and drove through the dry fields on the dusty way back home.
There I rested briefly, then I had dinner and sometime I sat down to my homework. I abhorred them, like probably everyone who ever went to school, but I loved to write with the fountain pen and colourful ink, which is still the case today.
The fact that I already smoked makes the overall picture of Mortal Skin almost complete: It smells of hot, sunburned, dusty skin, of cooling sweat and of cigarette fingers that have touched the fountain pen too far down and are now smeared with ink.

That smells somehow strange, but I still like it really well.

Well...I said the overall picture was almost complete...because now comes the big but.

In the background of this fragrance is something that gives me goose bumps.

A shadow before the bright summer sun.
Something lurking beneath you in the water.
Someone who secretly follows you on a dirt road.
Eyes that watch you rest.
A strange feeling when crossing the inadequately illuminated alleyway.
Sudden steps behind you that make your pulse shoot up.
Someone with whom you have just enjoyed yourself deliciously and who looks at you all at once with a look that makes you all cold, who extinguishes the lights on this so far shining evening and makes it dark.

Fascinatingly beautiful and frightening "Mortal Skin" is unbearable for me.

8 Replies

11/16/2018

10
Scent 10
Longevity 9
Sillage 10
Bottle

Lazolkov
3 Reviews

Lazolkov

Naked in Space

A 2015. év egyik legkülönlegesebb hipnotikus művészi alkotása, nem egy hétköznapi viselet… egy brutális, de mennyei utazás kezdete…
Meztelenül állunk egy kristálytiszta térben, az abszolút sötétségben, bőrünkön érezzük a világegyetem, az örök éjszaka lüktetését, a távolban égő haldokló csillagködök lassú hullámzását, melyek csak az ionizált anyaguk miatt világítanak. A halandó bőr és egy összeomló távoli csillag feszültséggel teli illata…
Az utazás mesésen indul, fekete tinta füstös tömjénnel párosul, egyesülésüket a kardamom is támogatja, mindehhez a gyanták kellő meleget kölcsönöznek az írisz fagyosságával szemben. Finom füst lebeg mindenfelé, olyan érzésünk támad, hogy mindez az élet törékenységéről szól, melyet körülvesz a nyírfából, szantálfából és cédrusból készült erős keret.
Mindehhez nagy koncentrációban csatlakozik a parfüm tökéletes egyediségét biztosító, pézsmába és forró tintába mártott szeder igen különös illata. A háttérben egy száraz, illuzórikus zúgó erdőt hallunk, amely tényleg csak egy káprázat, hiszen valójában az erdő egy sima üvegre festett kép csupán.
Ez nem az a fajta parfüm, amelyet egyszerűen csak viselünk, ez olyan, amit akkor kívánunk meg, amikor olyan emberrel találkozunk, akivel érdemes együtt lenni, és amikor felnézünk az égre, tudjuk, hogy nem vagyunk egyedül.

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