American fashion designer L’Wren Scott will launch a new limited edition fragrance in collaboration with Barneys New York…
Etat Libre d’Orange The Afternoon of a Faun ~ new fragrance
French niche line Etat Libre d’Orange will launch The Afternoon of a Faun, a new unisex fragrance, in October…
Etat Libre d’Orange Fils de Dieu, du Riz et des Agrumes ~ fragrance review
Risqué ideas and images are nothing new to Etat Libre d’Orange: the company presents us with closet queens, chubby utility workers (with a label showing buttocks cleavage), blond pubic hair (Vraie Blonde), gay beefcake (Tom of Finland), a threesome engaged in oral sex (Archives 69), and a couple of penises (one substituting for a pistol barrel — Je Suis un Homme — the other erect and “spurting” — Sécrétions Magnifiques). Now there’s Philippine Houseboy, whose tagline, fils de dieu, du riz et des agrumes*, has been put into use in North America as the fragrance name (you can apparently still buy this perfume in the Philippine Houseboy bottle in Europe).
No matter the name (I refuse to get worked up about perfume “titles” these days…there are much more important things to protest and worry about!), the fragrance’s “intent” is to capture the sun-drenched, aroma-rich Asian tropics. Fils de Dieu, du Riz et des Agrumes was created by perfumer Ralf Schwieger and lists fragrance notes of bergamot, ginger, lime, coriander leaves, shiso, Jungle Essence coconut and cardamom, rice note, jasmine, cinnamon, French May rose, tonka bean, vetiver, musk, amber, leather and castoreum.
Fils de Dieu opens with gingery lime, and “green” coriander and pungent shiso leaf…
Etat Libre d’Orange Fils de Dieu & Bijou Romantique ~ new fragrances
French niche line Etat Libre d’Orange has launched two new fragrances, Fils de Dieu and Bijou Romantique…
Atelier Cologne Vanille Insensee ~ fragrance review
It’s the seasonal interregnum in Seattle. King Winter is waning and Princess Spring is itching to begin her reign/rain. This is the period when amber, musk, incense and oud fragrances start to feel passé and weigh heavily on my body and spirit. As the witch-hazels and camellias bloom and wintersweet scents the air, I yearn for lighter “green”, floral and citrus-y colognes, but right now they too seem a bit “strange” to wear…like the shorts I’m beginning to see on many Seattleites!
Perfumer Ralf Schwieger developed Atelier Cologne Vanille Insensée — Princess Spring’s ‘regent’ — and it fits my mood, and the current (changeable) weather, perfectly: it’s neither too heavy, nor too light — it’s just right.
I have never been a huge fan of vanilla-centered perfumes…