French niche line Etat Libre d’Orange will launch La Fin du Monde, a new spicy woods fragrance:
Film, literature, pictorial art and music all have imagined the end of the world, Etat Libre d'Orange created its smell. As head notes, a popcorn agreement, carrot seeds, black pepper, then Haiti vetiver, sandalwood and the ambrette appear, we discover styrax and canon [sic] powder in the background.
La Fin du Monde was developed by perfumer Quentin Bisch; additional notes include caraway, freesia, orris and sesame.
Etat Libre d’Orange La Fin du Monde launches later this month, at Nose in France. I will update with size and concentration.
(via nose.fr)
Update: Etat Libre d’Orange La Fin du Monde is available in 50 and 100 ml Eau de Parfum.
Another update: see a review of La Fin du Monde.
For my foodie post, I was looking into scents that have popcorn as a note. (I found I had quite softened on Miss Dior Cherie. In 2005 or whatever, I was horrified about the name, the sweetness and the fact that they called it a chypre. Today, the “vintage” version with the original name, in the squared bottle, seems like a minor Nagel masterpiece of fruitchouli, and I almost bought some. End times, indeed.) While I like the sounds of this ELdO, it doesn’t sound overly foody? I do like the sound of caraway, sesame and ambrette.
So agree about MDC — at the time, wasn’t aware that it could be worse, & yep, minor masterpiece. Still don’t get why they changed it, it must have sold well???
Always hard to tell how foody something will be. I think this has been reviewed already but haven’t paid enough attention. As usual.
What is a “popcorn agreement”? Is popcorn gathering to take over the world and the agreement is their manifesto?
A bad translation of “popcorn accord”.
Actually, I bet Nose just uses a machine translation — which might also be why you get “canon” instead of what should almost certainly say gunpowder.
Chuckling at popcorn agreement and canon 🙂 Looking forward to trying it, as it sounds interesting indeed!
I guess the end of the world is going start in the marshy vetiver grasses in Haiti. Okay, why not. I can also understand that cannons (or gun fire) might be in the air in some sort of
But what on earth do carrots and popcorn have to do with the end of the world? Perhaps if the world ends with the coming of the Messiah, popcorn and carrots will be served as snacks during afternoon discussions to spread peace unity and knowledge? Can we have a little artichoke dip as well?
They’ve got lots of stuff online if you want to try to puzzle it out:
http://etatlibredorange.com/confessions/la-fin-du-monde
I read somewhere that it smells like Dior Homme on steroids, interesting, I’ve been trying to find a replacement since the reformulation and I don’t really dig the Intense version. I bought a new DH bottle in Madrid a few weeks ago and I can almost tell it has been reformulated again and now smells more like the original :)))
I recently got a sample of Etat Libre’s Like This? the Tilda Swinton fragrance, and although I cringed at the thought of a pumpkin accord, it actually is quite a beautiful scent. It makes total sense in the composition, and curious to try this new one!
I like a lot of ELDO scents so I will definitely be trying this one. Very curious about the popcorn.
I have to laugh at the name of this one – La Fin du Monde is also the name of a strong local (Québecois) microbrewed beer: http://www.unibroue.com/en/beers/15
The fragrance definitely sounds like its worth a sniff, though. I’m curious about how the popcorn agreement will agree with the rest of the notes.
That brew has made it down to Texas, and was the first thing I thought about when reading this post! Though that beer is more of a floral citrus, with no popcorn to my nose 😀 Be well.
This sounds like it is worth a sniff, will try it if I see it.