10ml
10ml
10ml
MARISSA ZAPPAS
TRAGEDY OIL
Perfume Oil
Women
Sizes
Starting
$55
Description
Tragedy Oil by Marissa Zappas is a captivating floral perfume oil launched in 2023, drawing inspiration from Ruby McCollister's one-woman show. This fragrance aims to transport you to the atmospheric solitude of a haunted theater, evoking the spectral presence of beloved tragic icons. It's a modern homage to the opulent, hyper-feminine white floral perfumes of a bygone era. The scent unfolds with a prominent embrace of tuberose and orange blossom, which then gracefully transitions into an earthy, grounding blend of fir balsam, sandalwood, and oakmoss. The overall impression is one of glamorous voluptuousness, underscored by a cool, mossy, and subtly medicinal edge, offering a unique and intriguing take on a white floral.
Perfumer: Marissa Zappas
Scent Profile
Floral
Woody
Mossy
Green
Spicy
Cool
Notes
Top Notes
Orange Blossom
TuberoseMiddle Notes
Fir Balsam
Base Notes
Sandalwood
OakmossAbout MARISSA ZAPPAS
Marissa Zappas is a perfumer, scent designer, and poet based in New York City, whose ethereal and nostalgic fragrances blend fantasy, reality, the gothic, and the modern, drawing from her anthropology background and admiration for early 20th-century avant-garde perfumes. Her signature Redamance collection, launched in 2022, features olfactive portraits of overlooked historical women like Imperia La Divina, Ching Shih, and Queen Nzinga, using notes that reflect their eras, personalities, and environments to connect past and present through perfumery. What makes her unique is this poetic, anthropological approach, creating personal and collaborative scents that evoke history, death, and sensory transport.
Perfumer
Marissa Zappas
Marissa Zappas is a New York City-based independent perfumer, writer, and poet whose approach merges her anthropology background with admiration for early 20th-century avant-garde perfumes. She trained at Givaudan, starting as a receptionist and apprenticing under master perfumer Olivier Gillotin for two years before freelancing in 2017, and holds an M.A. exploring perfume's history, death attitudes, and cemetery construction. Her ethereal, nostalgic fragrances like Annabel’s Birthday Cake blend fantasy and reality, gothic and modern, often through collaborations with NYC artists and projects like co-founding Gumamina with Courtney Rafuse.
Reviews
Community Insights
Reviewers often describe Tragedy Oil as a hauntingly feminine yet cold white floral, with a mesmerizing tuberose and orange blossom expertly blended with earthy notes. It's praised for its unique character and ability to evoke a specific mood, offering a cool, spicy, and aloof take on tuberose.
Pros
Performance excellence: Leaves a sensual trail and will cling to your skin for many hours.
Quality composition: Expertly blended to create an elixir that instantly captivates the senses.
Unique character: Offers a hard-boiled wintry tuberose, rather than a yielding tropical one, with a cool, mossy, almost mentholated androgyny.
Vibe & Emotions
Seductive and enigmatic: Perfectly embodies a seductive and enigmatic essence.
Haunting and feminine yet cold: Evokes a haunting, feminine, yet cold feeling.
Magical and protective, glamorous and voluptuous: Feels magical and protective, glamorous and voluptuous, with a medicinal edge.
Evokes being alone in a haunted theater: Designed to evoke the feeling of being alone in a haunted theater, waiting to see the ghost of your favorite tragic icon.
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