Etat Libre d'Orange She Was An Anomally EDP 50ml
A singularity. A difference. This disparity comes with an excess, forcing the dose on the iris and musk. This perfume was necessary.
For the one you will never understand
Après des milliers de jours, son parfum.
Top notes: Green Tangerine
Heart notes: Vanilla-Orchid Accord, Prunes Neo Jungle Essence™, Incense
Base notes: Musk, Sandalwood, Amberfix©
FULL DESCRIPTION
"My mother, she was an anomaly, she was brilliant, she was loved but she paid a huge price." from an Interview with Lisa Simone, in What Happened Miss Simone ?
" I’m sorry, Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that. I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, it can only be attributable to human error. This conversation can serve no purpose anymore. Goodbye." HAL 9000 iconic quote in 2001 : A Space Odyssey.
These remarks could summarise our new perfume, a marriage of Nina Simone and Stanley Kubrick. This fragrance is dedicated to them, to celebrate their talents, their deviations from the norm, from the theoretical value, from the expected. This disparity comes with an excess, from a « computer malfunction », forcing the dose on the iris and musk, and this sublime jeopardy has sprung up to become a perfume, carved by Daniela Andrier. A singularity. A difference. This perfume was necessary.
- Etienne De Swardt - Founder
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ETAT LIBRE D'ORANGE
Etat Libre d’Orange is an ambitious, audacious perfumery. Liberated. Free to create. Free to love and be loved. This is a different kind of perfumery, with a point of view.
A whimsical perfumery that uses irony to hone the names of its scents. A spirited perfumery that shakes up prejudices and stirs up ambiguities. A perfumery that plays with ideas and reinvents the pleasures to be found in the sense of smell, through sublime juices. These are juices composed from living matter that fuses with the skin so they can only belong to the person who wears them. Juices that are fashioned without constraint or compromise. Juices that are designed to disturb, to touch, to tempt. And seduce, seduce, seduce. Juices that are created to extend the confines of perfume, to overcome the forbidden, to break the rules. To rebel. To exist, at last.
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MORE THAN A FRAGRANCE, A STATE OF MIND.
Etat Libre d’Orange currently presents a collection of more than 30 fragrances — all aspirational, all essential. With an emphasis on originality, audacity, authenticity and freedom of expression, Etat Libre d’Orange proposes surprising olfactory compositions, without any limitations in terms of creativity nor raw materials.
A perfume house with its singularity, its sincerity, unexpected, sometimes ironic, often subversive, and always elegant.
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MORE THAN A SIGNATURE, AN ESSENCE.
Etat Libre d’Orange is a declaration of independence. Perfumes for life and love and making love.
When Etienne de Swardt created his house of perfume in 2006, it was only right and natural for him to give it this name, to honour his birthplace and what it represents. In South Africa, Etat Libre d’Orange (the Orange Free State) was a land of staggeringly rough beauty and colour and unforgettable smells, a nation of contrasts, strong feelings, and mixed emotions. The rainbow mosaic of people and cultures gave it an unpredictable, sometimes savage nature. Unity, beauty and freedom, the hallmarks of our company. Welcome to freedom.
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THE BOTTLE & THE SYMBOL.
A simple bottle — solid, serious, attractive — holds the true creativity.
The three coloured rosette is a symbol of liberty. A proclamation of difference. It appears as a seal, a commitment, on the sharp edge of all the bottles.
The bottle fades away in front of the juice, the superfluous leaves the place to the essential. To the essence.