![]() ![]() Heart notesĪs the scent warms, the mint becomes more nuanced and less hard. Utterly fascinating and very clever stuff indeed.įor us, this was one of those fragrances that left us wanting to sniff our wrists until our heads turn inside out. Just like you had picked a handful of mint leaves and crushed them right there in your hand. Interestingly, Bloom say this about the scent: “The perfume is freshness itself created from molecules one finds in mint, shiso, violets and citruses but not from essenses corresponding to any particular plant.” That blew our minds a little bit, because it does smell so natural. It has clarity and purpose about it, further bolstered by the gentle coolness of eucalyptus. It’s a really true mint smell, not at all synthetic or mouthwash like. The mint is zingy, refreshing, mouthwatering, and delightful. In the best possible way, this has a slightly cat urine like quality, but don’t worry, it mellows into something far less challenging quite quickly thereafter.Īfter the citrus, the mint quickly and smoothly unfurls, like it was there all along and you just didn’t notice it straight away – the transition is that smooth. ![]() It’s fleeting but a grapefruity note does come through quite strongly. ![]() It’s just slightly puzzling too.Īn initial spritz of You or Someone Like You opens with a citrusy sourness. This doesn’t mean that this perfume isn’t a delight to wear. This perfume, like many of the EldO range, isn’t the easiest or most accessible fragrance in the world to pick up and just chuck on you’ve got to have an open mind and be into slightly unusual things to ‘get’ what they are trying to say. We’ve previously reviewed another of their daring scents, Marquis de Sade, but if you like mint in a fragrance, you might want to check out Fragrance number 21 by Nikkos-Oskol. The resulting fragrance house now boasts 34 scents in its line, and one of the most gloriously perfumy nonsensical websites we’ve ever seen. The brandĮtat Libre d’Orange (ELdO) were founded by Etienne de Swardt who had previously worked in luxury fragrance, but wanted to do something less constrained and more rebellious. NotesĮucalyptus, green leaves, mint, shiso, violet leaves, bergamot, grapefruit, cassis, hedione, rose, white musk.Įtat Libre d’Orange don’t actually list the notes for this fragrance on their website, and other sites claim they are keeping them a secret, so we have amalgamated this list from various sources including Bloom’s website and Fragrantica. That’s what Etat Libre d’Orange have managed to conjure up with this fragrance familiarity and excitement, the old twisted together with the new to form something else, something wonderful. The juice would stain fingers green but scent them with the most amazingly tangible smell, a magical smell that has the power to punch through the intervening years and takes you right back to that exact moment, the sun on the back of your neck, the leaves crushing between your fingers. ![]() It was the job of the children of the family to pick the mint to be snipped into salads and on to new potatoes or peas. The plant sprang up every summer and was vivid green, fragrant long stems of perfect oval, fuzzy leaves. From this dour bit of land grew the most magnificent crop of garden mint, just outside the door to her cottage. The soil was grey and vaguely industrial looking, like the surrounding town. Growing up in deepest Yorkshire, our founder’s grandma used to have a garden a little strip of soil that she kept meticulously weeded. ![]()
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