What perfume would drag queen Mayhem Miller wear?

Mayhem Miller, The Only Mayhem

Drag queen Mayhem Miller is a woman of polished ingenuity. While she sometimes faded into the background during the outlandish acting challenges on this season of RuPaul’s Drag Race, she delivered precision-point elegance on the runway.

In the first runway design challenge of the season, the queens were tasked with making couture out of materials from a 99 cent store. Mayhem won the challenge by turning black gloves and trash bags into a gorgeous number.

Black (Bulgari)

Bulgari Black smells like elegant hot rubber. It should not work, but it does, and this is no accident. The perfumer who constructed the scent is the ingenious Annick Ménardo, who was also behind the classic Lolita Lempicka and the Sephora blockbuster Hypnotic Poison.

For Black, Ménardo sets leather, vanilla, and tea on three axes, then throws us into the clouds. The result smells like crushing on a guy wearing a leather jacket who picks you up on a motorcycle to go get Earl Grey flavored ice cream together. It’s a fitting perfume for Mayhem Miller, because she is a classy lady, and if you want her affection, you better come correct.