Etat Libre d'Orange
Etat Libre d'Orange
168 votes
A unique visual signature based on accords, character, and seasonality
The citrus trio hits with almost aggressive brightness—tart green mandarin and bitter orange wrestling with crisp apple in what feels like a deliberately abrasive greeting rather than a gentle introduction. The sharpness is almost unpleasant, deliberately so.
French strawberry emerges with a sour-jammy character that plays against the now-fading citrus, whilst rose absolute and iso E Super create an oddly synthetic floral heart that feels more laboratory than garden. The sweetness here is artificial-edged, caught between fruit and floral without fully settling into either camp.
Atlas cedar and akigalawood advance with growing intensity, the sandalore lending a warm, almost resinous quality as the fruit fades entirely. What remains is dry, woody, and unexpectedly pleasant—all the aggression burned away, leaving something contemplative and faintly bitter.
*I Am Trash* announces itself as a deliberate provocation wrapped in fruit and flowers—the olfactory equivalent of wearing deliberately ripped couture. Daniela Andrier has constructed something genuinely peculiar here: a fragrance that wears its contradictions on its skin like badges of honour.
The opening assault is all bright citrus aggression—green mandarin and bitter orange collide with crisp apple, creating that initial "fresh" reading the accords promise. But this isn't a clean, virtuous freshness. There's an almost hostile sharpness to these notes, a deliberate shrillness that feels confrontational rather than inviting. The citrus doesn't smell like breakfast; it smells like someone's aggressively offering you fruit whilst maintaining unbroken eye contact.
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