#Etat Libre d'Orange

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look for the name: KYARA

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aniye records "neda" crop top w/ long drape sleeves in stone color

nimph "tristan key and lock" mid-rise upcycled denim trousers

harlot hands "fallacy" silver ring w/ white stone

etat libre d'orange "the ghost in the shell" eau de parfum (unisex)

simona vanth glitter and spike stud "princess" slipper shoes

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scent of the day: hermann à mes côtés me paraissait une ombre (état libre d'orange)

am i... an eldo groupie now? i've loved all of their scents i've tried so far, and i am just obsessed with hermann à mes côtés me paraissait une ombre*. but this is a very personal obsession, that goes beyond mere appreciation for a well-crafted fragrance. everyone i've shown this perfume to, myself included, has found themselves smiling perpexedly and saying it smells unique yet... familiar? "woody", said my dad; he also noted its strong sillage, albeit in less technical terms - "wow, that's strong!" (it was just one spritz, dad.) "a winter perfume. smells like woodworking and your grandfather," said my mom. "very different, very intriguing," said my boyfriend.

my own association was crystal-clear: the catholic churches i grew up attending, their elusive smell of wooden pews and wet basalt stone from the holy water basins beneath a thin haze of frankincense. it's eerily exact, as a bottled scent memory, and upon checking other reviews it would seem i'm not the only one who thinks so. it leans a little masculine, but i like that. it's really the most realistic church-smell i've tried to date.

and there is rose here too! so enmeshed with the petrichor scent of geosmin and the pepperwood that you might miss it, but it makes the whole fragrance transcendentally beautiful. the subtle florals actually reinforce the churchlike feel for me, like arrangements placed beneath the altar. i'd wear this to a funeral. i'd wear this when i miss my grandfather's woodworking hands. if you like woody and earthy scents, you'll love this, and you might find it reminds you of your dead past, too.

*as a side note, i recommend reading the victor hugo poem that lends this scent its name. you can find the original french on eldo's french website, and a translation on the english page, it's very beautiful, and i think the fragrance suits it well.

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My perfume diary 11: This smells like leather, clean skin, musk and pine/wood 6/10 (I love Tom of Finland and I wish this was stronger )

[katebvsh]

This is heartbreakingly beautiful . It took me a while to review this because I couldn’t get over it.

On paper this smells like some beautiful aromatic rice-based dish I’ve never tried before. It is stunning and almost brought me to literal tears (I don’t know what it is about ELDO but their perfumes are extremely evocative and make me see or imagine things visually and I don’t think it’s fair to say it’s just a case of clever marketing). This also isn’t the first perfume I’ve tried from ELDO but this one is, in my opinion, criminally slept on. It is also wearable in public imo despite being a rather eccentric choice.

I would have bought a 100ml in a heartbeat if this hadn’t reacted with my skin. It is calming musky and powdery,almost lactonic rice that is somehow enveloped in a smoky dark lime. The synthetic animalic notes may have been why this “turned” on my skin into an offputting Lou-Lou Cacharel gone wrong burning rubber smell on my wrists. Tremendous disappointment. But if the shoe fits (and the fragrance hits) this is a very original take on a savory gourmand. Perfectly unisex and signature scent worthy for someone who lives in a hot climate.

[mellorine-dreams]

[justperfumeasks]

A gorgeous Christmas gift from my boy bestie. Such a luxurious scent that I’ve wanted such a long time. A masterful mix of sweet jasmine, smoky tobacco and ripe apricot with a clean musk base, plus a little warmth from the amber. Such a unique blend, evocative of its inspiration - a chic French girl, scented with jasmine and trails of cigarette smoke. Just stunning.

[nofearforthesettingsun]

Decided to try semen-based scents. Had mixed results. Here are my reviews.

[regulushair]

Tom of Finland by Etat Libre d'Orange

I finally returned to it and Oh My Gods... It's so good! So, this was a bit of a specific choice - it's pride month and I wore a leather jacket and very tight black jeans (and a very see-through deep v-neck t-shirt) and then I came to the store and did something unimaginable for me - I made six (6. SIX) pumps of this fragrance. And I never regretted it - I felt amazing wearing it while it lasted (unfortunately not too long on me - a couple hours - but definitely for a while on the jacket).

It bears repeating - I can bet something important that people who say it smells like latex and condoms because they know it's named after an artist who draws gay porn have never seen a single work by Tom of Finland, much less used by its intended purpose (I did though) - because I've never seen a single condom or a latex garment in his work. So, as you could have guessed this is no what it smells like for me.

For me and on me it sounds like an old suede/soft leather jacket straight out of laundry (I feel more aldehydes here than in Number 5, last time I tried it), Finnish forest in the summer - pine needles and birch tar - especially in the middle of its development - and some slight nicely added sweetness (pyramid-wise, I'd say it's more tonka beans than vanilla). It's very gentle but while it's there it's pretty noticeable.

I get that part of my fascination with this is the fact that I love Tom of Finland and his work but even if so - I loved this fragrance and I'd love to have a bottle.

[crazy-meringue]

Finally I received my New Year's gift! Real happiness. I was really looking forward to this scent because of its composition.

This is HIS scent. His young one. When, having collected all the laurels of the Seven Years' War and having given a few more years to the service of France, 23-year-old Donatien Alphonse Francois returns home. The beauty that blooms like a fragrant orange flower merges with a craving for secrets and mystical freedom, brought up in the basement of the uncle-abbot's castle, where there was always the smell of incense. He puts on a baby blue suit with silver embroidery and takes out the oldest book in the family library. The smell of these pages embraces him and touches him tenderly, like a girl. And from the depths of his soul and body, passion finally bursts freely and fully.

This is such a scent. Youth, lust and mystery. All that my creation associates with my dear friend

//I'm also waiting for two volumes of "Juliette" and a complete edition of "Justine", but they will most likely be delivered next week

[windy-apple]

Put on some jasmine et cigarette to sit around the house for the rest of the night. ✌🏻

[thebeautycove]

ETAT LIBRE D'ORANGE - SOUS LE PONT MIRABEAU - Eau de Parfum - Novità 2023 -

P+P what a terrific alchemy. Poems + Perfumes. Is there anything better than that to shake your S+S? Senses and Soul reply right away.

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Che stupefacente alchimia quando le fragranze scuotono la curiosità e sono ganci di riflessione su quanto si è appreso nella vita, soprattutto sui testi scolastici, sulle buone letture fatte nel tempo, su quanto certe esperienze si siano poi trasformate in una trama fitta di passione e condivisione.

Ritrovare Guillame Apollinaire in questa nuova fragranza di Etat Libre d'Orange - Sous le Pont Mirabeau - è stato come aprire un varco di luce nella memoria.

Apollinaire è uno dei grandi della poesia moderna, coniò il termine 'esprit nouveau' dando significato alle avanguardie artistiche francesi d'inizio 900.

La sua poesia multisensoriale vive nella sostanza del ricordo, affrancata dai confini del tempo, ne contrasta la forza dissipatrice per divenire incorruttibile.

Nei versi della sua celeberrima ‘Le Pont Mirabeau’, cui la fragranza si ispira, scorre la malinconia per un amore perduto, la nostalgia di un tempo che non conosce futuro e quella speranza violenta e timida che fu cara a Baudelaire.

E questa sensazione di fluire, del moto perpetuo e sincopato delle acque della Senna traspare da rigorosi accordi acquatici e minerali.

La sensazione in apertura è di freschezza acidula brumosa rubata alle luci dell'imbrunire, di sentori terrosi e metallici sostenuti dalla forza calma dei legni, sandalo e cedro.

Sono aromi sospesi e lenti, meditativi nel solenne evaporare dell'incenso, nel prolungato riverbero ozonato, rischiarati dagli accenti erbacei delle foglie di violetta, dalla poetica rima dell'ambra grigia.

E ancora, come a voler trattenere in circolo le sensazioni di attesa e speranza, riemergono i legni, più confortanti e magnetici nel loro levarsi dal fraseggio distensivo di vaniglia e muschi.

É indossare una poesia.

Creata da Mathieu Nardin.

Eau de Parfum 100 ml. In selezionati p.v.

©thebeautycove   @igbeautycove

IL PONTE MIRABEAU Sotto il ponte Mirabeau scorre la Senna E i nostri amor Che io me ne sovvenga La gioia mai mancò dopo il dolor Venga la notte rintocchi l’ora I giorni se ne vanno io non ancora Le mani nelle mani restando faccia a faccia Lasciam che giù Sotto l’arcata delle nostre braccia D’eterni sguardi passi l’onda lassa Venga la notte rintocchi l’ora I giorni se ne vanno io non ancora L’amore se ne va come va la corrente L’amore va Come la vita è lenta E come la Speranza è violenta Venga la notte rintocchi l’ora I giorni se ne vanno io non ancora Giornate e settimane il tempo corre Né più il passato Né più l’amore torna Sotto il ponte Mirabeau la Senna scorre Venga la notte rintocchi l’ora I giorni se ne vanno io non ancora

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Il ponte Mirabeau deve parte della sua fama a questa celeberrima poesia di Apollinaire. Costruito nel biennio1895/97 ha una struttura a tre arcate in acciaio e collega la riva sinistra del 15°arrondissement alla destra del 16°. Quattro imponenti sculture in bronzo, poste alla base dei pilastri di sostegno, rappresentano l'abbondanza, la navigazione, il commercio e la città di Parigi. E' uno dei ponti più romantici della Ville Lumière, da sempre cantato e celebrato da artisti e letterati.

Elogio in fragranza al poeta Guillaume Apollinaire, che coniò il termine “esprit nouveau” per rappresentare l’avanguardia dei tempi moderni. Apollinaire aveva in se la genialità dell'innovatore, fu un visionario nell'approcciare le nuove correnti artistiche e il primo a riconoscere la valenza della pittura metafisica.

Il ponte Mirabeau è una delle sue poesie più belle, tratta dalla raccolta Alcools del 1913, in cui l'autore applica ai versi i principi della pittura cubista, le liriche non servono uno schema, non presentano un soggetto ricorrente ma, soprattutto, sono libere e non costrette in spazi limitati dalla punteggiatura.

Il ponte ha per Apollinaire una profonda valenza simbolica, è metafora del sentimento amoroso, luogo che induce a riflettere su sentimenti e tempo. Malinconia e visione onirica si fondono palesando il tratto distintivo dello stile del poeta, la sua poesia non è solo parola, è anche tattile, udibile, percepibile con i cinque sensi, qui sta la sua straordinarietà.

C'è il riferimento alla Senna, all’acqua che scorre veloce come il tempo, alle cose smarrite in esso, all'amore perduto per la pittrice Marie Laurencin, il ricordo e la nostalgia, la consapevolezza di ciò che non potrà tornare, l' abisso di solitudine e malinconia. Tutto passa, la giovinezza e la felicità spazzate via per sempre e la citazione alla 'speranza violenta' di Baudelaire è più che appropriata, poichè la tristezza ha per lui lo stesso significato, di violenza e timidezza congiunte.

E se il tema del tempo è cruciale in quest'opera, la protagonista assoluta è la poesia stessa. Tutto ciò che resiste all’azione distruttrice e implacabile del tempo è il dono di queste parole. Il dolore della separazione viene lenito dalla bellezza, dallo splendore del verbo poetico, che possiede la stessa funzione salvifica della memoria.

©thebeautycove

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Etat Libre d’Orange Fat Electrician

nose: Antoine Maisondieu

notes: whipped cream, marrons glacees, vanilla, vetiver, myrrh, olive leaf, opoponax

Etat Libre d’Orange wants to be edgy and it always falls flat. The copy about this scent is about a once-beautiful young man, “Now, a Fat Electrician in New Jersey, his talent depleted in his sexual decline.” Fine, whatever.

What does Fat Electrician actually smell like?

It starts with a delightful creamy-fluffy vanilla that feels almost floral — I want to say orange blossom or something.

Then there’s a very “wrong” choking smoke note; not smoke like charred wood but smoke like cigarettes or burning plastic. Is this the “electrician” part? It goes on for half an hour and it’s frustrating.

Once the “choking” note is gone, though, we get vetiver + vanilla cream, which is a lovely combination. Vetiver tends to be dry and austere, so “fattening” it up with some pastry cream is a great idea, and I think it works here. The effect is subtly nutty and balanced; the vanilla forms a pale aura around the light-brown vetiver core. It’s lightly sweet but not overly so.

Like all ELDO scents, Fat Electrician is on the sheer side; I do wonder what a richer “creamy vetiver” might be like, but this is a lightweight trifle and it works fine that way.

Effortlessly unisex IMO; one of those low-key sleek scents that work fine in an office.

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scent of the day: frustration (état libre d'orange)

i'm not as impressed by frustration as by the other three samples in the pack i got from eldo. it's a nice scent, yes, but i feel like i've smelled this before, and more than once, whereas the others felt quite unique. it's an autumnal smoky vanilla that feels super similar to by the fireplace by replica (with a touch of jazz club booze perhaps?).

i'll give it this: i definitely prefer it over fireplace because that one's just soot and smoke all the way on my skin. frustration at least has the decency to bribe me with sweet chestnuts and wintry spices; it has a well-executed structure, balancing wood, vanilla, smoky vetiver, rum, spice, and a caramelized (verging on burnt, but not quite) nutty aroma. i really like the dense, creamy chestnut note, but overall the fragrance is a little too heavy for my palate at the moment. in november i'll likely enjoy it more; it feels like it would be more appropriate for the holiday season.

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[cremastercycles]

This is my girlfriends current perfume wardrobe!

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