Category: Fragrances
Brand: Etat Libre D’Orange
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lovesickIguana5
Well this did take me on quite a journey! Even now I’m unsure whether to sell it on ebay or buy another bottle. The opening is an orange scented furniture polish, albeit an up market one. I sadly don’t get any lilies. My main reason for buying it . Or indoles. I was hoping it would be like Lushs’ Death and Decay. (Now discontinued) .Or even like Demeters’ Funeral Home, which I adore but is so weak. There is an underlying cocoa cola smell, which is not unpleasant. A few moments of pure heaven when a gorgeous white flower aroma emerges. Finally a very warm vanilla, which is more like vanilla bean itself, which I love. You can tell it has been made with expensive ingredients for sure, but I really can’t detect the lilies. There is nothing funereal about it, and it does seem like a strange mish mash of elements. Personally , I wish they had just done heavy, indolic lilies. I was going to try The Afternoon Of A Faun, but not sure now. Glad I only paid £50 on ebay for it for 100mls.
Well after wearing this for a week, I have changed my mind. ! It seemed to take this long to find a fit with my skin chemistry. Now I can smell the lilies and indole. Now the notes blend beautifully together. It’s a wonderful, haunting , at times unsettling fragrance, and I love it. So glad I have found this perfume house. I have bought The Afternoon Of A Faun, not yet arrived.
obsessedJerky6
Charogne opens with jasmine, incense, and a murky vanilla, a bit of leather, and moves onto a wistfully melancholy lily accord. Not rotting blooms, but caught just in time, powdered and preserved. A floral tribute to a hushed casket. A very private, intimate scent. The scent of sultry widows who have perhaps lost too many octogenarian husbands and folks are starting to get more than a little suspicious.
stressedMare6
Indoles are the key to Charogne (corpse) by Etat Libre d`Orange. Indoles are aromatic heterocyclic organic compounds found in flowers, feces, and rotting flesh. To me, Charogne smells of confederate jasmine and lilies. Lilies are flowers traditionally found at funeral services. This theme is definitely not original and has been explored in other fragrances, for example, Passage d’Enfer by L`Artisan Parfumeur and Eternity by Calvin Klein. ELdO is simultaneously ripping off the concept and making fun of it. Clap. Clap. Clap. To its credit, Charogne is a high quality composition, but it’s incredibly intense and even unsettling.
selfishBaboon5
This does it…
of all the Eldo Perfumes that I’ve tried this one definitely passed my border in a sense of-”passing the border of having good amount of nerves, trying to cope with various Eldos…”
this is the end of my many attempts to find at least one Eldo perfume which will be wearable, making me feel good, avoiding very vulgar and infamous names, weird compositions,urge to be eclectic no matter what…or revolting associations that I read in this brand’s reviews…
simply put – for moi,this brand is a piece of crap!
it isn’t just the names…it is the whole ”death lovin’ philosophy” which really gets on my nerves whenever I take a sniff of something wearing the name Eldo and seem to feel the same old decomposing of the notes,making these perfumes almost vile and ”bad luck charm” -wannabes…
this is a very indolic, almost nauseating stinky and harsh jasmine, rolled up in sugar(very sweet sugar) making me go hm…
not totally unpleasant but not pleasant either…next phase is something spicy,woody, and almost bearable….then a sugar bomb on my hand….then something creamy like Caron’s Parfum Sacre, then animalistic note….and then- sickly sweet residue containing ylang-ylang,amber,caramel….and…..well I really don’t know what to expect next…
my bf said it smells like a wet toilette being scented with some cheap bubblegum freshener…
me? from now on,I’m just gonna ignore the whole brand in generall…
p.s. try it for yourselves, by all means because I’m trying to be as objective as I can….but my limit of objectiveness is just about to end-now!
sillage is good, and it lasts, o gawd…for too long..on me..
empathicZebra5
A fragrance named “carrion” (literal translation), I was intrigued…. I gave it a fair chance because the name entertained me. I expected a game-y musk. Unfortunately, it really did not make an impression either way. On my skin, it translated to a musky fruity floral vanilla. Bleh.
chicDoughnut2
I can’t fault this perfume for the fact that I can’t wear it. ELdO has a beautiful bergamot that I smell in the opening of this and Bijou Romantique. This quickly morphs into a rich, oversized jasmine and ylang combination – a dazzling rich incense creeps up from the bottom till I felt I was breathing into some giant purple tropical incense flower – rich, royal purple with nectar dripping from the overripe center. I do not smell “corpse” in this – just rich floral that seems to grow in size and intensity, buttery and slightly salty. Much too much for me, but a thrilling experience from ELDO. Love this house more and more.
dejectedCur5
JUICY FRUIT chewed at an open-casket viewing.
Utter perdition and detritus mixed with the most tongue-smacking, sweet, candylike, smiling gustatory deliciousness.
Remember when British Saatchi artist Damien Hirst came up with his collection of paintings celebrating medicines, hospitals, capsules, flasks, pills, colored elixirs, medicine labels? This is the milieu to which CHAROGNE takes me.
But we must never forget that CHAROGNE is about Death. That Big Thing. By giving it that very name, it appears ELD’O makes no bones about the fact that there is a Death allusion underfoot. Some reviewers have even given CHAROGNE the nickname “The Exquisite Corpse”. Not rotting— but caught just in time….freshly embalmed with formaldehyde, powdered and cosmeticized. Pretty as you please.
It’s kind of like Tim Burton’s CORPSE BRIDE. She’s so beautiful, so gracious, so sweet, so charming, so lovable, so attractive. But there’s just one thing: She’s Dead. Dance with her, caress her, court her, kiss her even…. but you can’t marry her.
That’s how CHAROGNE operates: Sweet, mixed- fruit-flavored CERTS scrounged from a kidskin purse, plastic toys, cellophaned flowers, and…..uh…….Death. Like Damien Hirst’s genuine human skull, encrusted with thousands of real diamonds. It’s beautiful, it’s Art, it’s precious… and it’s Dead.
This, to me, makes CHAROGNE even more taboo and outrageous than ELDO’s other bad-boy, SÉCRÉTIONS MAGNIFIQUES. Yet it is anything but a dark or emo or Goth scent. Au contraire.
Do I love this Post-Modern fragrance? Like you wouldn’t believe. Going on my third bottle of it.
somberHawk8
I liked this one surprisingly. I was nervous, because alot of this line I really dislike or even hate. I smelled the sample vial first, carefully, then dapped it on, liked it enough, put more on and spent the day in it yesterday. It was wearable, interesting and a bit sexy. I love the Ginger notes and the fruitiness that is not too much, not too little. I want a full bottle of this one too, so I now have two I like from this line so far. Not bad, but could be better.
empathicMallard1
I approached Charogne with a degree of wariness since Etat Libre d’Orange’s Secretions Magnifique was one of the vilest perfumes I have ever smelled. Also, ELdO’s other name for Charogne is “The Beast” and who wants to smell like a beast??
For all of the hoo-hah, Charogne actually turned out to be quite a docile, almost child-like creature. Its top notes smell like cherry and ginger, and remind me a great deal of POTL’s Luctor et Emergo. Charogne is an intensely sweet fragrance and is definitely something for those who enjoy gourmand perfumes. (Other than Neil Morris’ Afire. I am not one of them). Anyways, Charogne became more pleasant as time went on. It mellowed nicely and hints of vanilla and ambrette cropped up to ride it out to the basenote.
The marketing material for Charogne is so ridiculous that I just have to reproduce a snippet here: “A docile, consenting victim. The beast is actually not far away. He lies in ambush and, as the fine connoisseur he is, anticipates the moment he will take possession of her essence”. (major eye-rolling here…)
Here are the notes, per The Perfumed Court: bergamot, pink pepper, leather, ginger, lily, ylang-ylang, jasmine, incense, vanilla, ambrette and animalic notes.
jubilantHoopoe6
Charogne opens with such an overpowering sweet dirty musk on me that for the first hour it flat out makes me nauseous. As it starts to soften after that first hour I can bring myself to at least try and pick out notes, but I’m not able to. I do get a general impression of sweet, rank flesh that borders on rotting flesh or rotting flowers. It’s not wholly off-putting, but it turns me off more than it draws me in. Staying power is great and in the late late drydown it finally softens up into something beautiful and feminine. At this stage it reminds me of Guerlain Terracotta Voile d’Ete or Etro’s Raving in the hazy quality of the warm, vaguely spicy vanilla that you are left with. Notes include bergamot, pink pepper, leather, ginger, lily, ylang ylang, jasmine, incense, vanilla, ambrette and animalic notes.