Miguel Matos Electric Dreams Extrait de Parfum is a wildly experimental and incredibly fun scent of 80s computer plastic, overheating harddrives, VHS tape cleaner, retro drinks and tutti frutti. A celebration of the pre-internet digital age, Electric Dreams is named after the cult 1984 film that depicts the love triangle between a man, a woman and a computer.
This technological romance is captured in the whir of hot air from plastic fans – the smell of digital hormones trying to understand an emotion but failing. Electric Dreams is doubly artificial. It is a 100% synthetic perfume that replicates man made aromas from a fabulously synthetic decade – an act of retrofuturism captured in perfume form. While hard hitting computer circuitry and plastic bytes dominate the opening, the heart reveals notes of cheap wine, tutti frutti, fake banana and a dash of strawberry bubblegum – less techie but equally artificial.
Electric Dreams is unashamedly pop. The film itself featured the iconic soundtrack ‘Together in Electric Dreams’ by Phil Oakey and Giorgio Moroder, and Miguel Matos’ perfume veers between vinyl, tape and VHS and floppy disk to highlight the sense of multimedia olfactory exploration. The fruity, floral notes underneath have a rainbow iridescence. This may be the perfume of our trashy past, but it speaks of a time when we boldly gazed forwards towards a glittering neon future.
Notes: metallic citruses, cheap wine, tutti frutti soda, plastic flowers, banana, ambrocenide, leather, clean laundry, iso E super, strawberry gum, overheated computer smoke
Here is the video clip that was partly the inspiration for the perfume:
You can try the perfume with the samples and in 7scents:
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