You won't forget the smell of these 10 odd scents anytime soon

If you're tired of the same old floral notes and aquatic scents, we've got the answer on how you can shake things up. Every perfume today doesn't have the generic cookie-cutter scent you've smelled so many times in testers and beauty aisles. As the season of autumn looks, maybe consider this a sign to put aside the usual musky, spice and vanilla scents for perfumes that smell like pizza, cannabis, and damp soil. Known across the fragrance front for their unique notes, these odd perfumes have the most distinct scents that will either transport you to a Middle Eastern city or a Parisian bakery or even a tennis court. 

Scroll below to find some of the most quirky-smelling perfumes to add to your closet. 

1. Pizza By Demeter Fragrance Library

A foodie at heart? Then this scent by Demeter is meant for them as it has a scent that smells like everybody's favourite Italian delicacy i.e. pizza. Think cheesy goodness with the citrus scent of tomato. The notes can be described as savoury, aromatic, spicy, green and animal-ic. The fragrance has the unique blend of cheese, tomato and oregano running through it.   

2. Crush Balls by DS and Durga 

DS & Durga's Crush Balls is a unisex fragrance inspired by tennis that is evident with its top notes of green grass and rosemary and base notes of sporty accord and hard court. The fragrance is meant to capture the energy of a tennis match. This makes a perfect gift for the sporty folks in your life or for personal use if you're a sportsperson yourself.

3. Duro by Nasomatto

Whether or not the perfumer intended, Duro by Nasomatto has a strange scent that would have many heaving for fresh air. Described by many as "a hypnotic scent that enhances all the manifestations of strength and all the incarnations of power", it's a woody chypre fragrance with notes of spices and patchouli on a touch of smoke on a resinous amber base that is designed for men that is hard to describe and even tougher to sniff.

4. Mississippi Medicine By D.S. & Durga

 A woody and smoky fragrance with herbal and earthy undertones, Mississippi Medicine by DS & Durga has quite the back story. It is based on the rituals of the proto-Mississippian death cult of the 1200s. The perfume opens with herbal top notes of freshly gathered juniper branches, lichen-clad bark and sweet grassy violet.

5. Cannabis Intense By Fragrance Du Bois

Cannabis Intense by Fragrance Du Bois is an oriental, woody unisex fragrance that has hints of notes of cannabis. The top notes of the scents are orange, cardamom and pink pepper; while middle notes are of cannabis, saffron and nutmeg, with base notes of oud, cedar and musk. 

6. Dirt By Demeter

Dirt by Demeter Fragrance is an unisex woody aromatic fragrance that is designed for those who enjoy the smell of mud after the first rains; a feeling termed as 'petrichor'. The scent smells like damp soil with a hint of corn stalks, and was made to smell like the dirt from the fields around the Pennsylvania family farm of the founding perfumer.

7. Memo Paris Abu Dhabi 

Memo Paris Abu Dhabi is a unisex fragrance that aims to capture the essence of the Emirati capital through a blend of woody and gourmand notes. The scent is built around the date, a key element reflecting the region's cultural and botanical heritage. It's designed to evoke the tranquil balance between sea and desert, with a touch of spice and warmth. 

8.  Atelier Des Ors Blue Madeleine      

Imagine walking into a French bakery with air filled with the scent of butter and chocolate. With the scent of a gourmand madeleine, spiced up with smoky tea notes and a drop of spices, Atelier Des Ors Blue Madeleine will transport you to the streets of Paris where you'd casually pick up a baked treat for a walk on the cobbled streets.

9. Fzotic Monserrat 

With earthy undertones of carrot seed and osmanthus that make it slightly bitter, this scent has fruity, floral hints of apricot-like nuances with jasmine's sweetness. At first glance, you may wonder why this is a weird scent but it's all because of one teeny-tiny note: this scent has a wet plaster note, one that is highly unusual for perfumes. 

10. Le Labo Another 13 

"An unnatural cyber-synthetic concoction of poisonous molecules, vomit, cold metal, smoking wires, burnt fuses and smelted plastic"– this is a user description for this perfume by a Reddit user. It’s composed of ambroxyde, a synthetic animal musk, making ANOTHER 13 by Le Labo an addictive yet dirty potion.