A short spot for the new fragrance from Etat Libre d'Orange, Hermann à mes côtés me paraissait une ombre.
Etat Libre d’Orange Hermann a mes cotes me paraissait une ombre ~ new fragrance
French niche line Etat Libre d’Orange has launched Hermann à mes côtés me paraissait une ombre, a new fragrance…
Top 10 Summer Fragrances 2015
Instead of returning to my weary perfume cabinet for a rundown of summer favorites (I already hear longtime readers thinking, Is she going to bring up that blasted bottle of Jean Naté in her refrigerator again? Yawn), this year I got smart. I asked André Gooren from Portland’s fabled The Perfume House to share ten of his summer favorites.
André was up to the challenge. During a Saturday morning, between helping a bearded Australian opera singer (Caron Nocturnes, two bottles), a charming older woman (4711), a Romanian couple (Robert Piguet Jeunesse), and a booming-voiced regular (Pino Sylvestre and Comme des Garçons Avignon), he laid out ten sophisticated and sometimes quirky choices…
Etat Libre d’Orange Remarkable People ~ new fragrance
French niche line Etat Libre d’Orange will launch Remarkable People, a new unisex fragrance…
Etat Libre d’Orange True Lust ~ fragrance review
One of the hazards of reviewing fragrances for so long is that I can’t always remember what I’ve sampled. When I read that Etat Libre d’Orange True Lust combined Putain des Palaces and Dangerous Complicity, I drew a blank on what that might smell like. I even had to go back to confirm that I’d reviewed Putain des Palaces at all.
On rereading the reviews, it started to come back. Both fragrances are feminine, silk-stocking-ed sort of perfumes. Putain has a feral kick while Complicity might be the prettier of the two, although it lost my interest as it dried down. Now that I’ve smelled True Lust, I’m not sure why Etat Libre bothered to combine them. All three fragrances are lovely, and none is ferociously different from the other, at least not in mood…