ANARCHIST A_ BY TOSKOVAT - Some of the most interesting notes out there
Key Takeaways
- Anarchist A_ by Toskovat was released during the Christmas season as a deliberate critique of modern consumerism, spiritual decay and systemic hypocrisy.
- The composition uses symbolic ingredients including snow, credit cards, dirty dollars, priest's robes and holy water as narrative devices rather than decorative ones.
- The fragrance moves from bright artificial indulgence through bitter corruption and into a base of contradiction, where precious woods and sacred resin sit alongside plastic and violence.
- David-Lev Jipa-Slivinschi has described this as an uncomfortable release, but one that had to exist.
- This is a fragrance for people who want to say something, or start a conversation.
Anarchist A_ is not just a perfume. It is an act of defiance. Conceived by David-Lev Jipa-Slivinschi and released during the Christmas season, it is a direct critique of modern consumerism, spiritual decay and systemic hypocrisy. It asks what we have traded for comfort, and who pays the price for our illusions of safety, success and salvation. The scent is a slow-burning metaphor, referencing drug use, corruption, violence and religious contradiction through suggestion rather than statement. David gives us clues, symbols and shadows rather than answers.
Top Notes: The Illusion of Escape
Credit cards, snow and whiskey. The opening is bright but artificial. Snow might sound pure, but in this context the reference is clear. Paired with credit cards and whiskey, this is a portrait of indulgence masking emptiness. The luxury we are sold and the cold detachment it leaves behind. Vivid and immediately unsettling in the most controlled way.
Heart Notes: Cracks in the Facade
Dirty dollars, ink and candle wax. The heart is bitter, symbolic and deeply human. Dirty money and permanent ink reflect systems built on exploitation. Candle wax feels sacred but spent, the ghost of ritual. These are the accords of confession rooms, silent deals and trauma buried under the weight of power. The beauty of the composition is that none of this is explicit. It is all suggestion, and the suggestion is enough.
Base Notes: Confession and Collapse
Plastic bag, priest's clothes, holy water, precious woods and olibanum sacra resin. The base is thick with contradiction. Plastic bag: cheap, suffocating, disposable. Priest's robes and holy water: sacred symbols turned sour, power cloaked in reverence. And yet in the precious woods and olibanum resin something redemptive emerges too, a last flicker of truth that refuses to go out entirely. The tension between these elements is where the fragrance makes its most honest statement.
A Fragrance That Does Not Flinch
By David's own admission, Anarchist A_ was an uncomfortable scent to release. But it is one that had to exist. It critiques both society and perfumery simultaneously, questioning our need for beauty while holding a mirror to what beauty can obscure. Unapologetic, intelligent and disturbingly real in a market crowded with fragrances that say nothing at all.
Wear it if you want to say something, or wear it if you want to start a conversation.
