Etat Libre d'Orange: Secretions Magnifiques

Anyone who knows me, especially those that know me well, know I have an insatiable curiosity. I'm also the girl that if told "you can't do that" is going to dang well do it. So with all the hate and drama directed at this juice, I HAD to test it.

As perspective, in previous work I've worked in what many would consider pretty gruesome situations. I've photographed a child in the morgue, killed by a car and covered with tire tracks. I've worked fatal accident scenes with vehicles on fire and dead bodies strewn around the road. I've handled accidents with decapitations and dismemberments. So, in my mind, my curiosity was - Is this fragrance going to bring back any or all of the smells from these situations?

On me, Secretions starts out with a very sharp metal twang. It is in fact reminiscent of the metal morgue tables and the smell of car metal being cut away. Then I get a sweaty musk. The kind of smell that some dogs have after they've been outside running in the heat. That sopping wet, matted fur smell. I get a somewhat salty yet creamy woodiness - like the smell of a stand of trees just beside a shoreline.

I don't agree that this is a love or hate. For me, I neither love nor hate it. I appreciate it for what it is. Is it a scent I care to smell like - no. But I'm glad I checked the box and tried it.

"Like blood, sweat, sperm, saliva, Sécrétions Magnifiques is as real as an olfactory coitus that sends one into raptures, to the pinnacle of sensual pleasure, that extraordinary and unique moment when desire triumphs over reason. Masculine tenseness frees a rush of adrenalin in a cascade of high-pitched aldehydic notes. The sensation of freshness is gripping. Then the fragrance reveals a metallic side, precise and as sharp as unappeased desire. We are on a razor-edge… skin and sweat mingle, and tastes of musk and sandalwood. The slightly salt marine effect stirs, arouses, and sets your mouth watering. Tongues and sexes find one another, pleasure explodes and all goes wild. Confusion reigns supreme. A subversive, disturbing perfume. It’s love or hate at first sight. Sensuous jousting is rarely satisfied with half-measures…In between Don Juan and the Woman who offers herself, arms are laid down…who will be the first to surrender?"

Composition: Lodized accord (fucus, azurone), adrenalin accord, blood accord, milk accord, iris, coconut, sandalwood, opoponax...
Nose for this fragrance is Antoine Lie.