Fat Electrician Etat Libre d`Orange for men

Fat E is the saltiest, strangest vetiver scent I've come across. . . And what else could you expect from "Dennis the Menace" of the perfume world, ELdO.

The picture of electrician's ass is fragrance advertising at its most efficient, at least for me:
Whenever I hear "Fat Electrician", like a Pavlov's dog, I cannot avoid thinking a big, round, fat ass. And yes, Fat E does have the "sweat" note. Don't sweat it. Just try it.

I smell vetyver and opoponax, and a little vanilla. Sometimes I smell Cent Wafers?!?
I think it's a great vetyver, not as cloying/disgusting as Rocky Mountain and longer lasting than Guerlain or Encre Noir.
Unfortunately, the opoponax is just a little too much for me.
I can smell it all day long but my coworkers don't notice that much.

ETA: now I smell the same opoponax than in Shalimar!

Myrrh and vetiver. Or, clove and vetiver is what I'm getting. I guess the myrrh smells like cloves. And, that's about it. Clovey myrrh and vetiver with the slightest drop of vanilla.

Fat Electrician isn't bad, but I find it watery and lacking. I get the "electrician" out of this one more than I do anything "fat".

This is what I call a different take on vetiver. A solid interpretation that is able to emerge in this crowded territory. A bold, but never overwhelming, mixture of opoponax and vetiver laying on a slightly sweet vanilla base and enriched by hints of incense and resinous elements throughout. Easy to wear yet distinctive, simple yet perfectly refined honest and compelling. A perfect everyday'ss fragrance and one of the best releases in the Eldo's range.

Rating: 8/10

Smells exactly like self-tanning-cream!! Salt air, sea, the scent of burning sun, +45 celsius, an over-crowded mad beach by the meditarranean sea, in late july. Synthetic plastic Self-tanning-cream and sweat, sunburnt red bodys... AND myrrh !! Perfume made as an piece of art, so strange - made ugly-beautiful.

I get a lot of bittersweet vetiver from this fragrance. Mixing with myrrh, and it gives me an impression of cedar but not very strong. The overall scent is very nice woody. It's clean, modern, and manly, but not too over the top. The vanilla is a quiet one here and not exactly what I call "sweet". Sadly, at the price tag of $80, I have to swallow my urge and walk away. (T~T)

Starts out natural and herbal smelling like celery-apple juice. The combination of vetiver, myrrh and vanilla is unusual, providing a scent that’s greenish, herbal, and sweet all at the same time. It’s nice enough in its own way, reminding me of some all-natural compositions that I’ve smelled, but it only lasts a couple of hours before fading away to nothing. It’s an oddly named fragrance, especially given its mild herbal-earthy character. I really don’t get it.

This is a grubby, sweaty vetiver with a slightly metallic rubbery start. I didn't enjoy the scent when I first tried it, but it's growing on me as it dries down. Smells like someone attractive who hasn't washed recently enough. Faintly sordid and naughty.

"Fat electrician" opens with a dry yet sweet vetiver, and then a synthetic metallic-sour sweet accord.
The vetiver note in the juice can be calificated as disturbing, not disgusting though, extremely arid, manipulated in an industrial way.
Highly fake, but retro-ike in another hand.

The fragrance develops with the same concentrated aura, sometimes resinous, salty, ( but not aquatic or marine) and raw.
The scent juxtaposes the dry, sweet-sour undertones of the manipulated vetiver with the most sweeter, balsamic smokiness representation of opoponax and myrrh and changes from silver to green, then salty and then deep sweet.

"Fat electrician" dances between the natural and the synthetic, but is a wll blended perfume, and even it is quite linear, it has a distinctive character: an arid, salty green presence that I love to bits.

This is another strange but still wearable perfume from ELO. The vetiver starts off very bitter, earthy and even rusty. Strong, heady and like a bush of vetiver with roots and soil...

Hiding under the vetiver I detect a buttery note, I guees it´s the electrician that has been buried alive under the vetiver plants! :)

Anyway the "fat" note isn´t really disturbing, only making the scent more interesting as if it wouldn´t be interesting enough without, cause Fat Electrician is a quite different take on vetiver.

A refined play with light and darkness, a perfume making illusions on your skin... is it edgy, dark and bitter or smoth, sweet and gourmand? Actually both, like the best of both kinds, normally hard to combined notes.

A must try if you´re in to vetiver. Longlasting with good sillage. In my opinion suitable for both men and women.