Perfumer Antoine Lie talks about Etat Libre d'Orange Sécretions Magnifiques.
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I really need to smell/experience this one. I’m terrified, but I need to. I’m 14 yrs into my fragrance love affair, and it’s 11 yrs old now. I. Must. Smell. That. Weirdo. #soon ^_^
I can’t stand it, but it’s about the only EldO fragrance that lives up to its transgressive description, plus, it’s exactly what the brief called for — Lie is right to be proud.
It is certainly…an experience. It smelled like a used Band-Aid that had been floating in a chlorinated pool to me. I immediately sent it to a fellow fragrance fan, who said she also hated it. The strange thing is that both my boyfriend and her husband REALLY liked it! I had my boyfriend smell it without giving him any information on it, and she did the same, so maybe our advance knowledge of it served to prejudice us somewhat? At any rate, I thought it was horrific…the olfactory equivalent of a crime scene. But I must give it credit for its originality!
Thanks Robin! I expect to loathe it as well, but it should be fun to try! Hehe!
caffeinequeen, I can’t wait to order a sample and test it on a few fam and friends, whom I’ve gotten into fragrances. They just might murder me (there’s your crime scene), but hey, I expect it to be highly entertaining/worth their rage against me. Haha! ^_^
There is an interesting interview with Lie about this and some of his other creations on Grain de Musc.
https://graindemusc.blogspot.nl/2011/05/mechanics-of-internal-fluids-is-beauty.html
I have tried Sécrétions but can’t remember liking or disliking it. I adore his Rien though.
Interesting, thanks for the link!
Well I sprayed a 19 year old friend of mine with it recently,he said” Yuck I smell like death!!”It took 4 scrubbings/nail polish remover/a hot shower with Rose Jam to get it off his skin!I was amused….