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Etat Libre d’Orange :: Perfume Houses

Etat Libre d'Orange fragrance line

French niche line established by Etienne de Swardt, who had worked for Givenchy for a number of years before launching the pet fragrances Oh My Dog! (2000) and Oh My Cat! (2001) under the brand name Dog Generation. Etat Libre d'Orange debuted in 2006 with its own manifesto:

Perfume is dead, long live perfume! We emotionally declare the birth of a newly liberated territory: the free state of orange. A land of olfactory liberality, free from every taboo, where insubordination and olfactory eroticism reign supreme. An independent state in the normed world of modern perfumery where the most talented noses, subjected to the demands of brands, must conform their desires to comply to what the majority expects.

To obtain a truly original product the author must give free rein to imagination: this is the rule Etat Libre d'Orange and its associated noses are committed to...

The initial offerings included six unisex fragrances: Vraie Blonde, Je Suis Un Homme, Secretions Magnifiques, Jasmin et Cigarette, Encens & Bubblegum and Putain des Palaces.

Five more fragrances, Eloge du Traitre, Antiheros, Rien, Divin'Infant and Nombril Immense, followed shortly after.

Recent fragrances from Etat Libre d'Orange

2007: Vierges & Toreros, Don't Get Me Wrong Baby, Delicious Closet Queen, Charogne, Rossy de Palma Eau de Protection, Noël au Balcon

2008: Tom of Finland, Bendelirious

2009: Fat Electrician

2010: Sex Pistols, Josephine Baker, Tilda Swinton Like This 

2011: Archives 69 

2012: Fils de Dieu, Bijou Romantique, Malaise of the 1970s, Dangerous Complicity, The Afternoon of a Faun

2013: La Fin du Monde

2014: Cologne, Rien Intense Incense

2015: True Lust, Remarkable People, Hermann à mes côtés me paraissait une ombre

2016: Attaquer Le Soleil Marquis de Sade, Yes I Do

2017: You or Someone Like You, Une Amourette Roland Mouret

2018: I Am Trash / Les Fleurs du Déchet

2019: 500 Years & Spice Must Flow, Experimentum Crucis, She Was An Anomaly

Where to buy

In the US, the line can be found at Beautyhabit, Luckyscent, Sephora. Elsewhere, try Holt Renfrew in Canada; First in Fragrance in Germany; Nkd Man, Les Senteurs or Harvey Nichols in the UK.

Website

Etat Libre d'Orange

Further reading

See all articles on Now Smell This tagged Etat Libre d'Orange.

Read Subversive Genius - An interview with Etienne de Swardt of Etat Libre D'Orange at Basenotes.

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