S. Elizabeth@ghoulnextdoor
stunningly beautiful but slightly off-putting
CreedAngelique Encens (1933)4.121 ratings5/5
This is the unsettlingly mysterious woman in the film noir who is instantly pegged as the murderer because she’s stunningly beautiful but slightly off-putting. You later find out she is hiding a terrible secret that has nothing to do with the murder, maybe her twin sister drowned in Monte Carlo and she has stolen her identity in order to escape a lecherous uncle or something like that. It smells of some sort of enigmatic green flower whose essence has been preserved to deepen and darken before it is crushed with a handful of strange, sweet herbs and left in an antique potpourri dish in a dusty lady’s boudoir. A beautifully strange and enigmatic scent, for lipsticked and rouged facades masking dark, dramatic pasts.
