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Comme des Garcons Series 8: Energy C Lemon, Lime & Grapefruit ~ fragrance review

Posted by Robin on 29 May 2008 24 Comments

Comme des Garcons Series 8 Energy C fragrances

They're mighty busy over at Comme des Garçons this year: we've already had 888 & Monocle + Comme des Garçons Scent One: Hinoki, and we've still got a number of collaborative scents to come (with Daphne Guinness, H&M, Jun Takahashi & Stephen Jones). The latest launch is Series 8: Energy C, three new fragrances promising a “vitamin rush based on citrus fruit” to “wake up, feel positive, be positive”.

Comme des Garçons has done citrus before, most notably with Series 4: Cologne. To my mind, Series 4 is underrated, and not least of all by me…

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Etat Libre d’Orange Delicious Closet Queen ~ fragrance review

Posted by Kevin on 24 September 2007 30 Comments

Etat Libre d'Orange Delicious Closet Queen perfume

There have been some closet queens in the news recently, especially in the political arena, but none of them are “delicious.” I wonder — CAN a closet queen be delicious? Does Etat Libre d’Orange know what “closet queen” means? A “closet queen” is a gay man who pretends he’s not gay — he hides his homosexuality from everyone; he is repressed. Etat Libre d’Orange tries to make a closet queen seem romantic, mysterious and exciting. While most real-life closet queens are furtive and ashamed, Etat Libre d’Orange’s closet queen thinks “elegance is an armor” and he “excels in the art of concealing” (à la James Bond). Etat Libre d’Orange’s closet queen is “a master of pretence”, “a…seducer who never yields to anyone.” We are encouraged to believe we have something in common with the delicious closet queen: “we all have a secret side…an inner garden we cultivate to protect our most abiding passions.”

Sorry, just as I have a hard time relating to a closet queen in person I have a hard time relating to Delicious Closet Queen on my person…

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Etat Libre d'Orange Delicious Closet Queen, Charogne ~ new fragrances

Posted by Robin on 30 April 2007 21 Comments

Etat Libre d'Orange Delicious Closet Queen perfumeEtat Libre d’Orange has launched 2 more fragrances, bringing the line's total offerings to 15.

Delicious Closet Queen is the creation of perfumer Nathalie Feisthauer and includes notes of violet leaf, citrus, geranium, iris butter, cedar, patchouli, vetiver, dynamone, framboise irisée, rose, sandalwood, leather, tonka bean, benzoin and opoponax…

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Hermes Eau des Merveilles & Parfum des Merveilles fragrances

Posted by Robin on 7 September 2006 47 Comments

Hermès Eau des Merveilles

Hermès launched Eau des Merveilles in 2004. The fragrance was created by perfumers Ralf Schwieger and Nathalie Feisthauer, and has notes of elemi, bitter orange, Italian lemon, Indonesian pepper, pink pepper, ambergris accord, oak, cedar, vetiver, balsam of Peru and tears of Siam. Eau des Merveilles, or Water of Wonders, was said to have been inspired by ambergris…

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Etat Libre d’Orange ~ new fragrances

Posted by Robin on 23 August 2006 11 Comments

Etat Libre d'Orange Jasmin et Cigarette fragranceAs previously reported, Etat Libre d’Orange is a new niche line that will launch in France this September with six unisex fragrances. Here are more detailed descriptions of the scents:

Jasmin et Cigarette is by perfumer Antoine Maisondieu, and features notes of jasmine absolute, tobacco, hay, apricot, tonka bean…

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