6 products
Clean Suede
Regular price $29.00AVAILABLE IN NASHVILLE STORE ONLY
A tribute to tomorrow’s glorious possibilities. This is fresh, pure water, with top notes of aldehydes and lemon, a water that washes away the sins of the night and leaves the skin luminous.
* We say our goodbyes to Tom of Finland and introduce to you, Clean Suede.
The water slips over him as if sliding down a marble rock, sinking into the grooves of his muscles, vanishing into his pores. This is fresh, pure water, with top notes of aldehydes and lemon, a water that washes away the sins of the night and leaves the skin luminous.
He feels clean, like a shaving from a cake of soap. It is an ode to the beauty of the male body and to the radiance of the natural self. This perfume offers unrestricted access to the immense outdoors, the forest, with notes of birch leaves, cypress, galbanum, and pine at its heart.
He is sex, in all its fullness and magnitude, open and erect. Fantasy clings to him like his leather jacket, with suede, musk, and grey amber in the base notes. His belt is fastened with an accord of pepper and spicy-fresh saffron, tangled with a blond suede sensuality on a vanilla bed of tonka bean and iris.
This is a man who wants to play, to love, to die and be reborn, again and again. This fragrance is a tribute to tomorrow’s glorious possibilities.
Fragrance Notes:
Aldehyde, Lemon, Birch Leaves, Pine, Pepper, Vanilla, Ambre Gris, Suede
Eau De Protection
Regular price $29.00*Available in Nashville Store Only
Made in collaboration with Rossy de Palma, this magic potion, this instrument of transformation, could only be made by the crushing of armfuls of roses. Roses with thorny stems that yield lavish blossoms, lush petals, outrageous, puffed-up fantasies, trembling with the sweat of impatience and desire. Roses, red with blood, a piercing note leaving the flavor of fire on lips that suck the finger pricked by a thorn.
A bleeding rose. A candy rose. A rose that tastes of fresh milk, a talcum powdered baby’s bottom, a wealth of sugared kisses. At Etat Libre d’Orange, the Virgin rarely wanders far from the Whore. Perhaps she is one and the same. Warmed by the fire of this woman, the noses have embraced a fanciful vision. They have created for her a perfume of protection, a refuge on the battlefield of love. Defensive yet transparent, Eau de Protection conceals as it reveals. For her, a caress is demanded, while those around her are struck with awe. The noses have extracted that which is most profound in her, the essence of her. They have distilled her honey and squeezed the juice from her heart.
Fragrance Notes:
Black pepper, ginger, Bulgarian rose, bergamot, jasmine, benzoin from Laos, blood accord, patchouli, incense, cocoa
Frustration
Regular price $250.00Frustration, the eldest daughter of renunciation and the sister of perfume, since perfume proceeds like frustration in the game of love.
It gives by taking up, a fullness never satisfied, an enjoyment started but never achieved, an infinite movement of desire without completion, without apotheosis, an instillation that excites, seduces, lulls, dominates and annoys like a Bolero by Ravel. Frustration.
So take a vanilla bean, a garden rose with swollen red petals, some old rum exploding with amber woods, a bourbon vetiver, bring each of these materials to your senses. Frustration.
Breathe, taste the circulation of the unheard of beans, delectable fermentation but never enough, where one asks for more, all nostrils out, ... "More, more, let us take your redness deeper, and become this animal with the dull mind of the child who wants to enjoy and devour even more this chestnut wood, this cinnamon or this vetiver until bursting, and then to bathe satiated in the poetry of the smell." Frustration.
This is the love game of perfume, this is the game of love according to Musset, Shakespeare or Racine. And it is so much the better because satisfaction kills whereas desire makes you live by creating movement through the ever renewed distance, so as to never consume like a homicidal ogre. Frustration.
Happy are the consumers of desire, unhappy the consumers of enjoyment.
Frustration, a perfume to awaken the strong child in the fragile adult or the fragile child in the too-strong adult, a perfume for a regressive journey to the dominion of vanilla, rum and vetiver.
Frustration Fragrance Notes:
Jasmin Et Cigarette
Regular price $170.00*Available in Nashville Store Only
The allure of vintage Hollywood glamour. Think Audrey Hepburn, Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich. This beautiful Jasmin scent pays tribute to the beautiful icons of black-and-white cinema smoking their crisp, long Tobacco cigarettes.
It is the era of the grand studios when Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich magnetized men with a Hollywood look in the eye, smoking a cigarette in a smoky black and white ambiance. Jasmin et Cigarette is the smell of a woman’s skin when she exposes her freshness to the dark seduction of night. A hazy atmosphere. The reminder of a fantasy, of an indelible trail she leaves on a dress at the break of day or in the intimate memory of the man who made love to her. It is elegance seen by Gainsbourg, the woman from the 80’s who smokes Gitane cigarettes and wears jeans and who, with astounding naturalness, claims her sensuality as a right.
Transparency in sophistication, just a trace of jasmine mingled with the so far neglected smell of a cigarette. Jasmin et Cigarette is the twilight zone, the banned, the addiction. She is an icon, the longed-for woman.
Fragrance Notes:
Jasmine absolute, tobacco notes, apricot, tonka bean, curcuma, cedarwood, amber, musk
Sous Le Point Mirabeau
Regular price $170.00A symbol of Parisian history and endurance that has spanned the Seine for well over a century, immortalized in Guillaume Apollinaire's famous poem, which acknowledges the temporary nature of life and love even as it celebrates that joy invariably awaits on the other side of loss. It's this nuanced celebration of the cycles of life and legacy that inspire Etat Libre's latest fragrance Sous le Pont Mirabeau, a refreshing and sophisticated aromatic aquatic scent that captures the melancholic beauty of Apollinaire's missive. An opening of bergamot and pink pepper mingles its brightness with the sweet green fullness of fig, leading into a soothing and evocative waterscape at the heart of the fragrance accented with ozone and a delicate sparkle of incense. A sharp, modern violet represents the "violent hope" of the poem, while a base of sandalwood, fresh musk, and vanilla conveys the oddly fulfilling ache of lost love. Gentle yet subtly powerful, modern yet timeless, Sur le Pont Mirabeau is a lovely, eminently wearable fragrance infused with true Parisian soulfulness.
Sous Le Point Mirabeau Fragrance Notes:
The Ghost in the Shell
Regular price $29.00
MERGER OF THE MATTER, BIRTH OF THE SPIRIT.
It is a night of pale moonlight, a night toward the end of the 20th century, a night when the old world is ending and the new one is beginning. It is a night when one trembles to boldly lower the sacred cross against the heart, to aid in the passage to fatherhood.
So, as a crucifix, that night I pick up Hyperion, a novel by Dan Simmons. This is a masterful science fiction saga that celebrates the infinite legend of the French Jesuit priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, who was a 20th-century researcher, paleontologist, theologian and philosopher.
And I read, pacified, until the reflections of the dawn, until the first golden rays of the East. I read the future of man, the celebration of transhumanism and the qualitative leap of humanity enhanced by machine. I have rarely loved a book this much, I have rarely loved a thinker this much.
I read that night what a man thought he saw in the tombs of time.
I am a lover of words in the service of materials when they come together to make poetry in the bottom of our bottles; thus, a few years ago, I bring up the work of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin to one of the last living vestiges of the triumphant 20th century, and I ask him: - "Then Teilhard de Chardin, precursor of genius?" A look, a silence and for the answer four unexpected words, four words whispered by my father: "GHOST IN THE SHELL".
This is the act of birth that makes the spirit of perfume. The rest is poetry to live on the skin.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin died in 1955, but his spirit continues to travel. This fragrance extends it through an alliance with the Japanese artist Shirow Masamune to transcend the spirit of Earth.
By mixing biotech and natural materials, this perfume silently celebrates the wake of the future and also whispers of a day to come, by providence or chance, when humanity is reunited and organized. A day when all consciousness is summoned by the infosphere to constitute a superior being and pass from the inert to the living. As the molecules assemble to make the living, we will then make a qualitative leap that becomes the starting point and arrival of transhumanism.
This perfume is the future. It comes to us from the 20th century.
Ghost in the Shell, a perfume that speaks of the human phenomenon and its paradox, a perfume to wear on oneself ab libitum, at one’s pleasure. A perfume as a propagation towards the other, that makes you the axis and the arrow of evolution; modern, indeed! From the bottom of the matter, rise up.
Etienne de Swardt
Top notes: Aqual™, Yuzu HE, Hexyl Acetate (MANE Biotech)
Heart notes: Jasmin absolute, Mugane™, Milky Skin Accord
Base notes: Moss Accord, Vinyl Gaiacol (MANE Biotech), Orcanox™
Sign up for discounts, new arrivals and events.
Receive 10% OFF your fist order.
