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Persolaise at Gmail Dot Com, Or Send Perfume Rainbow 0 More Next Blog» Create Blog Sign In Home Le Snob: Perfume Perfume Reviews Published Articles Interviews Shopping Guides Links Books Monday, January 18, 2016 About the author Super Scent - The Very Best Of Etat Libre D'Orange I am a four-time Jasmine Award winning writer and amateur perfumer with a lifelong interest in the world of Etienne De Swardt fine fragrance. I have written for The Sunday Times, THIS POST HAS BEEN SHORTLISTED IN THE Grazia, Glass, The Scented Letter, 'INDEPENDENT - SOUNDBITE' CATEGORY Basenotes.net, Now Smell This and ParfumPlus. I am a regular columnist OF THE 2016/17 UK JASMINE AWARDS for Esprit Magazine. It doesn't seem possible that Etat Libre D'Orange is only 10 years old. My knowledge and expertise have When it blazed its way onto the market in 2006 - in an opening salvo that been recommended by the Financial contained the likes of Sécrétions Magnifiques, Rien, Jasmin & Cigarette, Times, the BBC, The Guardian, The Vraie Blonde and Eloge Du Traitre - it cemented its reputation as a high- Observer, Die Zeit and several other quality enfant terrible with such rapidity that it almost feels as though its publications. anarchic swagger has been a part of the perfume scene for decades. It's a My perfume guide, Le Snob: credit to the vision of its founder and creative director Etienne De Swardt Perfume, is published by Hardie that so many of his facetious fragrances are now considered classics of Grant. For more information and to modern perfumery. order a copy, please click here. Several niche brands claim to be edgy, but at its best, ELDO has walked To read my award winning London the walk unlike any other. Time and again, it has attached a novel Perfume Shopping Guide, please concept, quirky imagery and an oddball name to the skills of fearless click here. perfumers and produced bizarre, compelling works of olfactory art. As a Please feel free to write to me at result, it has become one of the most iridescent hues in today's busy persolaise at gmail dot com, or send perfume rainbow. Below you'll find what I consider to be its five most me a message using the form below. commendable achievements. http://persolaise.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/super-scent-very-best-of-etat-libre.html 02/02/2017, 1850 Page 1 of 16 commendable achievements. All content © Dariush Alavi & Parfums Please be sure to visit the Candy Perfume Boy and Basenotes for their Persolaise 2010-2017, unless stated otherwise. All rights reserved. own Super Scent lists. I have no idea which perfumes have made it onto their Top 5, so I'll be heading over to their sites right now. As always, feel As featured by free to add your own views below. Have I left out your favourite ELDO? Let me know! Enjoy the list! --- --- 5. Like This ((Mathilde Bijaoui;; 2010)2010) You wouldn't think the realms of the bizarre and the romantic would have anything in common, but Bijaoui's award-winning Like This - created in collaboration with Tilda Swinton - forces you to reconsider. It entices some of perfumery's less popular players - carrot, ginger and pumpkin - to emerge from their hiding places, it places them upon a graceful spine and it creates an embrace worthy of the Rumi poem after which it's --- named. Fizzy love. --- --- 4. Eau De Protection akaaka Rossy De Palma ((Antoine Lie && Antoine Maisondieu;; 2007)2007) Perfume aficionados often describe their favourite scents as a layer of armour, and whilst I usually find that analogy unhelpful, nowhere is it more apt than in the case of Eau De Protection. It starts off as a straightforward rose soliflore - wide-eyed, approachable, hospitable - and --- http://persolaise.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/super-scent-very-best-of-etat-libre.html 02/02/2017, 1850 Page 2 of 16 straightforward rose soliflore - wide-eyed, approachable, hospitable - and even though it never quite loses sight of its central idea, it develops a metallic edge, a crystalline intelligence, as though asserting that it's capable of matching its friendliness with leonine ferocity. An uncompromising marvel. --- --- 3. The Afternoon Of A Faun ((Ralf Schwieger;; 2012)2012) Each time I spray this beauty, I feel I'm discovering it for the first time, such is the depth of its allure. Conceived as a tribute to Diaghilev and the Ballet Russes, it doesn't hold back on the vintage air of mosses and labdanum, but it's also a creature of the 21st century, using immortelle, incense and disconcerting green notes to propel its nimble dancer onto a --- gleaming, futuristic stage, somewhere between Moscow and Mars. Wear it... and feel those mind-altering Stravinsky strings cast an unearthly hue across your world. --- --- 2. Tom Of Finland (Antoine(Antoine Lie;Lie; 2008)2008) On a technical level, Tom is remarkable for being the best showcase --- we've yet been given for a gorgeous Givaudan material called Safraleine, a Sahara-dry expression of leather, cedar and saffron. But in a visceral sense, it's fire in a bottle, an uninhibited, hip-grinding tornado of tanned hide, baked spices and furnace-dwelling wood. As a friend once remarked when we were discussing ELDO's scents, "Oh my God, Tom is just... it's just SOOOO hot!" http://persolaise.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/super-scent-very-best-of-etat-libre.html 02/02/2017, 1850 Page 3 of 16 --- 1. Rien (Antoine(Antoine Lie;Lie; 2006)2006) Everything that's best about ELDO can be found in Rien: an ironic name linked to an ingenious concept and, most importantly, a blistering olfactory composition. In this case, De Swardt wanted a scent stuffed to seam-bursting point with all of perfumery's most assertive materials, so About This Site that a wearer's response to someone gasping, "What on earth is that Persolaise.com features reviews of perfume?" could be a smile and a quiet, "Oh... it's nothing." Lie rose to perfumes, interviews with fragrance the challenge, using patchouli, leathers, aldehydes, incense and woods at industry figures and general articles a frightening concentration to produce a wholly distinctive homage to related to the world of scent. The site bombastic bitterness. Oh, and one spray lasts like... well, like nothing is not affiliated in any way to any else. brands, wholesalers, retailers or organisations involved with the -- fragrance industry. Note: As per our Super Scent rules, the above list was chosen from All reviews are entirely independent. ELDO's current line-up; discontinued scents weren't considered. Here's The content of posts is never the brand's current portfolio, according to our reckoning: Antiheros; 'sponsored' by any external agencies. Archives 69; Bendelirious; Bijou Romantique; Charogne; Cologne; Dangerous Complicity; Delicious Closet Queen; Divin'Enfant; Don't Get Some reviews are based on samples Me Wrong Baby; Eau De Protection; Eloge Du Traitre; Encens & provided by brands; others are based Bubblegum; Fat Electrician; Fils De Dieu; Jasmin Et Cigarette; Je Suis Un on samples obtained by the author. This has no bearing on the content of Homme; La Fin Du Monde; Like This; Malaise Of The 1970s; Noel Au the reviews. Balcon; Nombril Immense; Putain Des Palaces; Remarkable People; Rien; Rien Intense Incense (could be counted as one with Rien, I suppose); Four-Time Jasmine Winner (2015, 2014, 2012 & Secretions Magnifiques; Afternoon Of A Faun; Tom Of Finland; True Lust; 2011) Vierges Et Toreros; Vraie Blonde. The new Hermann A Mes Cotes Me Paraissait Une Ombre wasn't released in time for us to consider it as a group. However, I have tried it and I can report that it wouldn't have made it onto my Top 5. Persolaise Persolaise published this on Persolaise at 12:00 PM Reactions: Like (0) Recommend this on Google Labels: Afternoon Of A Faun, Antoine Lie, Antoine Maisondieu, Best Of, Eau De Protection, Etat Libre D'Orange, Etienne De Swardt, Like This, list, Mathilde Bijaoui, Ralf Schwieger, Send Me A Message Rien, Super Scent, Tom Of Finland Name http://persolaise.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/super-scent-very-best-of-etat-libre.html 02/02/2017, 1850 Page 4 of 16 6 comments: Email * Grant January 19, 2016 at 2:13 PM Message * I like the fact we matched 4 out of 5! Reply Replies Send Persolaise January 19, 2016 at 7:23 PM Yes, me too. An interesting coinckidink. Follow My Posts By Email Email address... Subm Reply it Translate This Page The Candy Perfume Boy January 19, 2016 at 2:30 PM Select Language A superb list, Persolaise! I honestly think I could have done a top ten. Powered by Translate I always wish I could love Rien but somehow I just don't gel with it. Perhaps Featured Post it's to dry? I don't know. Conceptually I think it's great though. The All New London Reply Perfume Shopping Guide (Updated: 4th December Replies 2016) Persolaise January 19, 2016 at 7:24 PM THIS POST WAS SHORTLISTED FOR You know, I was convinced Rien would be on your list. Yes, it is THE 2015/16 JASMINE UK 'PRACTICAL super-dry, which is why I love it. That said, I don't wear it very GUIDE' AWARD As some of you may often. It's such a powerhouse, I always worry it'll scare everyone be aware, about 4 years... away. Reply Neva January 27, 2016 at 9:29 PM Oh...Rien...I've ordered a sample, sprayed once, almost dropped dead (unfortunately with disgust - it felt like metallic spray paint, suffocating) and ever since I did not find the strength to pull the trigger a second time.
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