Secretions Magnifiques Etat Libre d`Orange for women and men

Who´s afraid of Secretions Magnifiques? Well, i am, not for the concept but for what it smells like. Anyway, congratulations again Mr Lie (you concieved my favourite and signature scent, Rien) for another brilliant creation.

I did not believe all the negative reviews, and I love some scents that others find vile. So, I took my sample and sprayed two sprays, one on each wrist. First impression: Not bad, I sort of liked it in a strange way. 15 minutes later I started to find that the metallic, dirty smell was becoming more obnoxious. A half hour later I could only think of some future spaceship, almost devoid of human life but with a skankyness of metal mixed with lubricant and ozonic metal. Something came to mind about metallic robots having sex. Never had those thoughts before...and this fragrance brought this nightmare to me. I had to scrub this off and almost nothing would get this off! I bathed, I scrubbed and I used everything I cold think of to get rid of this vomit inducing scent and after I did that I drowned both wrists in Black Aoud. Hope I never smell this one again.

I tried it on my skin. God, kill me now.

I opt for nominating this stuff as the most disgusting fragrance of all time. I've smelled a lot of bad things: perfume, pure civet, step-dancing litter, etc., but NOTHING COMPARES TO THIS.
Coconut again. Damn you, coconut.

Update. I dont like it at all now since sampling with alot of confusion for me it's not wearable. If you can pull it's all good. I have smelt similar things worn in oil form called attar which is a middle easter perfume oil used by both men and women but there is somthing added to that scent to make it smell so sickening. I am not the kind of person who is a copy cat reviewer, if i dont like something i make it clear and also give everything a chance you just have to read my past comment on this scent to see if im telling the truth. For me it isn't even worth trying if your into the clean citrus style smells. If your are into strange smells than sample this but do not dare blind buy this even if you have money to waste.

On the first spray I said, “Oh this isn’t so bad.” I have seen videos of people retching and gagging on the first whiff. I don’t understand all the violent reactions; I think there are just a lot of dramatic people out there.

I will say that after sitting with Secretions for half an hour or so I turned to my partner and said, “Ya know, I just don’t want to smell like a dick.” To me Secretions smells like a warm dick that was just washed in the sink; funky but cleaned up. A good scent for real perverts.

i dont know what to think of this scent sometimes i get a clean fruity vibe that is amazing and would rival any creed i have smelt and other times it smells sickening i dont smell any blood. I may consider buying this and have a 2ml sample which i will test several times before i commit, from the house i also have je suis un homme which to me is dusty leather and not the smooth leather you get in knize ten. secretion magnifique has confused the day lights out of me it also has a note that makes me fell a little sick dont know why. confusion here.

I have three interpretations of Secretions Magnifique

1, Ignoring its intended associations, it smells like a very ironlike space-age reconstruction of an apple with a bit of floral and iris bunged in.
2, In terms of is intended associations, it reminds of having a nosebleed and sinus infection in combination. I can only wonder if the perfumer has a childhood memory of this, along with some of sort of positive experience that makes him reminisce fondly of such a time.
3, Secretions Magnifique seems like an intellectually constructed theory for a fragrance, about some sort of erosion of loathing for our own bodies and an exercise in finding their true olfactory beauty somehow lost in the annals of history due to ........, which was then bottled. Just remember that, if you do buy a bottle, you get the practice and not the theory.

An entirely offensive accord (reminds me slightly of dirty clothes that have been sitting in the hamper too long, mixed with a strong metallic essence), placed on top of a beautiful and lush floral green! Perverse and brilliant! I loved it! Grab a bottle (if you're brave) to liven up your perfume collection!

Gosh this is something else!!!

This perfume has been perceived to smell like many unpleasent things, I'm not sure how much power of suggestion that is.

To me it certainly isn't pleasant. I am surpirsed at how stong this is...gosh it really jumps off the skin and I want it off of me now!

The best description I can give of this pungent disgustingness is....Wet dog, mixed with saliva, seaweed and salt. It's very unpleasant to my nose and very strong.

ew!

Thank you to everyone's truthful reviews of this scent who have kept me hundreds of miles away from this.

Some say that "eventually" you get to some sandalwood, and "whatEVER" smell...well good for you!

But I feel compelled to ask: Why not start there with a pleasant perfume that provides a journey of bliss and escape?

I can't help but imagine the "nose" behind THIS scent. What spark of creativity led to this? What was "that moment" where it was thought that the world was missing "This in a bottle"?

I don't understand any attraction to inhaling the scent of, and smelling like, "intestines", blood, and sperm... or a "crime scene" for that matter. I use perfume to get AWAY from, and mask, all that. Right?

I use scent to heal and conceal, to raise my spirits and my mood, to transform my mind and launch my memories. I am going to out-and-out pass on smelling like, and wallowing in, some mortuaristic honey bucket pit of hell.

But like my ma always said: "There is someone for everyone"... and I guess that holds true for perfume.

Cheers! to you all!

I had the chance to try this on a couple of days ago, and I can't help liking it. Not liking as in something that I enjoy and would wear, rather liking the raw psycho factor of it. I couldn't stop sniffing it! It's so... perverted! Not just a carneval of puke as many reviewers make it sound like, there's more to it than that.

It's sweet and stale in a strange way, my boyfriend told me that it smelled like someone who's been sweating a lot and instead of taking a shower just smacked some deodorant on to cover it up. I absolutely understand what he's after! It's calm and clean/sweet/soft at the same time as it is perverted and hideously repulsing. So complex! But I must say that I find the scent of bodily fluids very comparable to the perfume. I mean, who can seriously say that blood/sperm/breast milk/sweat is so awful it really makes you puke? Not many people I guess. Sometimes those semi-gross scents even turn a bit erotic. You with me? I guess that's what got me hooked, it's so intimate and hush-hush in all that grossness.

And of course, to talk about what I really smell in it..
It's very bloody, cold and iron-y, just like licking an open wound. Sharp. I get an intense burst of sperm (I'm not even going to describe this one, basically it's spot on) and some sour sweat. At the same time it's warm and sweet like milk, that's where it gets ultra perverted. Combining the rawness of sweat, blood and sperm with something as soothing and relaxing as milk makes my head twirl. SO PERVERTED!

How many times have I said "perverted"? Probably a million. Because that's the word - perverted.

It's true that Secretions Magnifiques is a love it or hate it kind of scent. Unfortunately I fall into the latter camp. I just can't stand the dead metallic notes that dominate this skin, and literally leave me gagging.

It's very unpleasantly weird and very animalic but not in a nice musky kinda way. It smells like a new crime scene. Nothing is rotten here and definitely is not a pleasant smell either. One of a kind experience. It requires a lot of getting used to, if one really wanna wear it. One little sample vial is all I need. Perfect for special occasion like Halloween.

I totally agree with the previous review. It doesn't deserve such harshness. It's definitely strong and very reminiscent of blood and metal and of iodine but it's an original creation and should be treated with respect. I was really braving myself before I smelled this but have to say it doesn't smell half as bad as I imagined. As the girl at the the niche perfume boutique I went to explained, it needs time to live on the skin or clothes before you 'take it out'.
Anyways, I'm happy that this gave me the olfactory experience it did. No problem with smelling it :P

Gosh I really was scared to put this one on after reading all the reviews, sometimes reading the reviews is more amusing than the pleasure of testing the scent.
Anyway I didn't find it half as bad. I now think I must be really weird. I would not buy a bottle but I don't think it deserves to be slaughtered like this.

THIS is the perfume that truly made me re-evaluate what I consider a BAD perfume.

Before I ever had to endure the disgusting stench of this "fragrance", I thought that I'd been subjected to the worst in the world of perfumery. But this is a new level of badness that the worst of the worst can only aspire to.

It smells like mold and decay... rotting flesh, a refrigerator filled with milk and meat that has been left unplugged for months, a dumpster of hospital & biohazard waste and dirty public restrooms... all mixed together.

Oh and there's a slight floral note too.

These "sécrétions" are "répugnantes" more than "magnifiques" as far as I am concerned.

I do have a good friend who loves this "scent" (odor). I gave her my sample vial on the condition that she never wears it when I'm around.

Oh! The horror of it!

I have been very very eager to try it, upon reading all of the reviews here, and other places, watching numerous reviews on youtube, I was more than thrilled.
Today I was i my local nyche perfume shop and I knew it wasn't on the shelf, and I never expected to try it, just chated about it with a salesguy, and he pittied me and said they had a tester bottle hidden somewhere. Then he cautiously sprayed it on the paper blotter far away from himself, he said it was repulsive to him. Then I carefuly brought the paper to my nose, in fear of gaging and my reaction was "so? this is it? what's the fuss?" It opened up really fresh and sea breazy on the paper, so with all my courage I sprayed several sprays on my wrists. Oh my! Oh my! it smelled comletely like many of you guys have said. But the weird part is that I actually like it. I love it. I must be sick or perverted or something, but to me it smells like something warm, human, mutilated, disturbing and yet beautiful. To me this is dark art, an example of dark art in perfumery.
I'm totally addicted and have my wrists plastered to my nose,

P.S. Don't get the semen note whatsoever (not missed anyway)

This perfume really scares me a bit. I ordered a sample because of curiosity. Now I maybe know what a dead body smells like. This really is bad. This is not going to be my comfort scent,lol. I like Vraie Blobde more, which is my favorite of ELDO series so far.

I LiKE it!
I think the most part of comments are exaggerated
I don't know why so many people despise this unique piece of art.
To my nose I feel lodized accord/blood accord...something metallic that pinches in a nice way like metallic flowering in the middle of the sea; like say luca turin
after that I find milk and something like human skin wet...familiar..
hanging clothes perhaps.
the whole thing very fresh,young,original and.."human smelly"

nothing disgusting me!
THe death,the shit etc. etc smells very different;rotten corps smells disgusting and very far from this smell!!!

if you like this kind of things you can try DANS TES BRAS of malle edition that has something similar if only the idea
both valid and not boring like the most part of other scents
I appreciate and envy Etat libre d'orange a nice way to work cheerful and creative

oh my freaking Goodness!!!!

this smells like a Crime scene

like Diarrhea with chunks of vomity chunks in it.

imagine carving a cavity into a road kill carcass and

filling that cavity with vomit, fecal matter , spoiled milk......oh and some gym socks for good measure

I know......sounds beautiful right? :)

One needs to review this one with an open mind.
For starters, i am a gay man. Why that little tidbit of information is even remotely important is because i smell NO semen in this (not saying i've been around a huge amount of the stuff ;) ). It does however smell very similar to a mans cleanly washed crotch.
My boyfriend had worked at a morgue for a few years when he was younger, and told me that this smells exactly like the fridge where they kept the dead bodies, even before i had told him what it was. I invision this scent to be the signature fragrance for the movie "28 days later".
Dark, perplexing, annoying, and vividly disturbing, this scent is confusion, rage, hatred and lust rolled into a very well made feast of emotional olfactory experiences.
This sentence is going to be a shout out to my good friend Gypsy Perfumeista, thank you for your overwhelming kindness and generosity!

The birth:

Starts off very sweet and slightly powdery. I would be inclined to say that the sweet/powdery note found upon first application is in fact that vivid "lactose" note.
Quickly upon application (2-4 mins) the milk begins to sour and die ever so softly into the life of the scent.

The life:

The middle opens up rather offensive, metallic and odd. The soapy iris begins to unfold as blood it seems bakes on the petals and dries there alone in a hot empty area of cracked, dry dirt. Sit upon the imagery, disturbing is the word for it, and makes me wish that Etat Libre d`Orange would have made the packaging a bit more dark on this one, and not so much " tongue in cheek".

La mort:

Truly moving, to me at least. If you have been near a dying person in your life, close enough to nearly kiss them, then you'll know that their breath smells of something very odd. I mention this because i was with my great-grandmother just hours before her death, and i remember being very close to her because i couldn't hear her speak (lung cancer). I remember asking my dad why her breath smelled so strange, and he told me that "sickness and death change the way a persons body smells". I believe this could be the "saliva" and the "adrenaline" accords that are mentioned in this fragrance.
I miss her so much.

THE carnival sideshow freak of all perfumes. A concoction fit for only for a zombie. This truly is literally nauseating. Imagine it is 100 degrees fahrenheit with sweltering humidity and the electricity has gone out in the city for the past several hours. Time of day is in the late afternoon. You have just opened the door and walked in on a horrifically bloody, gruesome, sex/murder/mutilation crime scene before the Crime Scene Investigators arrive. THAT is what this smells like. Apply and inhale deeply if you wish to become agitated and then start to retch. MONSTROUS.

in my Rien rewiew I called Secretions Magnifiques a nose assault, that made me wish I was anosmic.
actually, after spraying on my wrist, I tryed to be very macho & not to puke before the drydown. I succeeded & i did not puke. I must agree with everybody here: it lasts forever & sticks to your nose & your skin like those venoms the customs use to destroy food that cannot pass the borders. the sillage is all you would like to expect in all those gorgeous fragrances that unfortunately only you & who is licking your skin can really appreciate. the funny part is that it was a blind purchase: I like a challenge. & at the very same moment I was spritzing on me, my brother was calling me from henri bendel, puking in the mobile & screaming that he had passed half an hour to scrub that s**** from his hands & the stench had depressed him all day... much of SM can be found in Rien. & I'm compelled to crave for Rien that is a fragrance that really works. but to smell like the dirty alluminium elevator of the building where my buenos aires friend lives it's a little too extreme even for me. it's like the stench of a metallic handrail in grand station touched by thousands of dirty hands after a very busy day of hard work & this is not easy to digest. where's the sperm? mine smells between chlorine & Krug champagne. where's the blood? perhaps the iron in the hemoglobine? too faint to smell. you can feel it only by licking it. where's the rotten fish? so, a deceiving fragrance because it tries to translate stench & smell into a fragrance & it fails. like almost all the CdG smells into fragrances fail. unusable but something that must be smelled & remembered. you can do what you want with these memories but it's not a fragrance to ignore. but, boy, what a stench!!!

Smells like florals with a slight metallic milky edge. I really like it actually. It wasn't bad at all

I tested this one today. I was pretty nervous to test it, after reading the reviews, but I thought: "oh well, it can never be that bad". And that's true! It wasn't that bad... it was even worse!

I smelled dirty wet dog, combined with sea water that had been in a jar for too long. Something warm and sweet (but not the right kind of it), something lightly floral (but not the kind of flowers you want in your house)... A strange combination, and very unpleasant to my nose. I kept it on for several hours, hoping it would grow into something beautiful but that moment never came.

I washed it off several times and still could smell it, I scrubbed my forearm and my skin is now extremely soft but the smell/stench is still present... I hope to find a beautiful scent with the same lasting power!

I'll keep my sample, as a reminder that "perfume" doesn't necessarily mean "some kind of beautiful".

GROSS!!!

this is my new favorite smell.. just out of spite. I'm totally smelling the coconut, but it's the blood, semen, death, and sweat that I'm drawn to.

i'm not going to get all crazy and write a million paragraphs on this weird scent. i'm just going to say i don't like it... at all. nuff said.

First of all I would like to express my opinion regarding all the moralistic reactions I've heard / read or even seen about this perfume. It tooks more than a year for me to simply find a retailer in Italy and germany who was stocking this product. In a couple of stores I've been told that they refused to stock SM for its nasty graphic, in other stores they simply found it disgusting and decided not to sell it, but the best I've heard was from a mid aged female clerk who refused to stock the product because she could have found herself in the situation to spray it for customers who wanted to try it. OMG!

Said that, Secretions Magnifique is far from beeing spectacular or surprising. It has a STRONG metallic note throughout, mixed with a barely sweet floral-milky accord. The overall effect is pretty weird indeed, but IMO SM is to semen as it is to blood, saliva or mucus. Honestly, we can't say blood stinks, or mucus stinks they more lay in the organic odours limbo of unpleasant almost "adourless smells". I'd say theyr're kind of cloying. And that's exactly the effect SM has on me.

I prefer to consider Secretions Magnifique as an experimental (almost situationist) piece of art realized through the sense of smell. In my vision this is not a perfume, it's an universally familiar odour and a taboo subject made to provoke reactions. In this context, Antoine Lie perfectly achived his pourpose as SM has become one of the most controversial and discussed scents of the last 20 years. I agree when someone says that perfumery is another thing, but this composition is to perfumery as Derek Jarman's Blue is to cinema. Pure experimentation.

On the skin Secretion Magnifique has a tenacious lasting power and a considerable projection but I can't stand it for more than one/two hours. Would I ever want to buy a full bottle? Maybe not, but I totally respect ELDO's choice to produce and commercialize one of the weirdest fragrance ever created.

My Rating

the concept / project: 10 out of 10
the smell: 3 out of 10
overall: 6 out of 10

So, here we go. I have this sample for more than a month as I really wanted to try it to find out what's the big fuss about it.
Some weeks ago I tried it on a man's skin, applied a tiny, tiny amount, because he wanted to know how would it smell like. So I applied and waited for something terrible to happen, but it turned out...nice? Aquatic on his skin actually. And yes, a bit salty. It reminded me of how smells a man's skin after he's taken a swim in sea - salty, a bit sweaty and so on.

Today I tried it on my skin. Threw up in my mouth a little bit. Scrubbed like crazy, tried to cover with other perfumes (big mistake). Everything smells like this. It's purely gross.


Though, based on my first encounter - there are people in the world who can pull it off. Master chemistry.

Okay. I resisted reviewing this one before because everything that's been said I thought was true. Then I tried Secretions Magnifiques again. Maybe my chemistry has changed or maybe I'm a total perv but I like this. That's right. I like it. Would I buy a FB? Probably not. But is this a sick and twisted masterpiece? Absolutely! There is something incredibly natural and so human about this that it is almost sexy. Okay, it is sexy. It is metallic and inky and dirty but not so scary to me anymore. The longer it develops I do get the opoponax and the coconut. The orris balances with a really nice powdery note. I just lied. I'm at least buying a decant! Try Secretions Magnifiques again and forget how bad you anticipated it smelling the first time. This is no monster. It just smells human.

I wish it was possible to un-smell something. If that were possible, I'd definitely un-smell this putrid, skanky, disgusting mess. I HATE this stuff. I've never smelled anything so vile. To make matters worse, this stuff lasts forever on my skin. I sprayed it on and immediately hated it. Waited a few minutes just to see if something good or at least tolerable would develop. It only got worse. I tried to wash it off and it would not leave. I hope I never come in contact with this mess again! Well, to be honest, I would definitely spray some on my ex if he ever crosses my path again. But aside from that, I never want to be near this fragrance again.

Do not ever and I mean never test that perfume on a blotter. It just turns creepy. It craves for skin and allow me to say, it craves for the appropriate skin. I do agree that it's not your average smell but I do not agree that it is sperm or bat's shit or anything else vile. It has a deeply human smell which we all have been familiar with but we interpret in a completely different way, and I think that makes it just special.
It's really nice that once in a while, there is someone who says something different, in any way. My congratulations to Mr Lie!

Oh God. I truly feel like vomiting. Waiting for the dry down to see if I change my mind. No... Running to the toilet... I've washed my arm three times and I can still smell it. Oh no. I think my arm will never be the same again. I feel like swearing out loud.

There are some things in life that just make you want to literally, throw everything out. Imagine falling in a vat of poop, blood, a few dead bodies, dead cow, goat pee, rotten coconut (If you ever lived in the Caribbean for a while, you'll pick this one up quick!), and sweaty feet. A friend of my mom had a few samples of this, and was planning on throwing it out. I got a whiff of it, and wanted to be shot. It is perfect if you want to revolt the shit out of people and really get their notice.

My little brother and his friends sprayed this all over his school gym's locker rooms few days ago as a prank. As of now, they're trying to find out what the hell died in there. I've heard there was a huge riot, and many in the class actually cried and some threw up when they opened the gym doors. Gym classes are canceled, and for what I've heard, a lot of the kids just threw away their gym clothes. Oh, and the kids are taking health class as a replacement, with an emphasis on proper hygiene. My little brother got a great yearbook picture out of this disaster. He's buying a large bottle of this, to continue this stinker madness...

This is what it smells like in the seven pits of hell.

And you know what's really sad, it really endures...

This would also be the signature fragrance of Freddie Krueger.

I want a guillotine.

Update 10/13/2011: My brother confessed to the crime last week. They couldn't do anything because it happened a while ago. He gave them some samples to prove it. He said he saw the VP's eyes water upon sniffling it. For what he tells me, he is now the "big man" on campus and has taken quite a liking to the perfume. Everyone wants to know how he did it. He says it smells like rust after a long while and has taken a liking to it. Guys have a different definition of "nice" I've noted. It can mean anything from "cool" to "fine" or "brilliant". He grew up helping my grandpa in the plantation and taking care of livestock. I don't quite trust his nose. He plans to wear it himself when he dresses up as Oscar the Grouch on Halloween. Can't wait...

On the down side, I've found an "icon" that would love and especially suit this fragrance. I think you'd agree with me...Dexter Morgan.

Hmmm.

Nothing magnificent about these secretions whatsoever. Methinks the "secreter" might need to pay a visit to the STD clinic in the near future.

In a word: yuck.

It was never my intention to test Etat Libre D'Orange SECRETIONS MAGNIFIQUES, but through a strange twist of fate it happened, and so I shall deign to comment on what should be the unmentionable.

A "perfume" which one would neither choose to wear nor wish to smell on anyone else is not a masterpiece but a bad joke.

And if a self-proclaimed culinary critic tried to tell me that a lovely frozen confection composed of sour milk, salt, and crushed glass was a masterpiece, I'd call him a "hoax" as well!

It seems that I am one of the few who aren't completely revolted by SM...not that I love it, but I think part of this fragrance's 8-hour life is quite appealing.

Upon opening, I detect the scent of a wet dog...a wet, DIRTY dog. This is my least favorite part of sampling it. Underlying the dirty dog, is a very salty marine-like grime. Personally, I don't pick up the scent of semen, but I've never experenced strong-smelling semen in the first place...and all men smell slightly different anyway, at least in my opinion.

After about 30 minutes, I can detect the metallic note, which isn't so much a blood accord to my nose as it is the smell of well-handled coins. This is tolerable.

For maybe an hour after this, in addition to the above, I smell intestines...the way a body smells during surgery when a surgeon has opened one's abdomen. A warm, living, breathing accord of organs. Not intolerable, but certainly not wearable.

An hour or so AFTER this is when the fragrance gets most appealing to me. The more my body temperature rises, the warmer my body gets, the more pleasant it becomes. My husband and I were, shall I say..."together" about four hours after application and it became simply gorgeous!! A very pretty musky drydown of sandalwood & opoponax with a touch of coconut heightened by my warmed body, I can only presume, given the circumstances.

I'm glad I was able to sample this very interesting fragrance...to say the least! :)

Ah mon Dieu... Ce sont des secretions pas si magnifiques! Un fil metallique parcourt le parfum et se decompose ensuite sur ma peau dans quelque chose ressemblant a une serviette hygienique utilisee. Degueulasse!

Rough translation: OMG, these are NOT-so-magnificent secretions! A metallic thread runs through the perfume then decomposes on my skin into something resembling a used sanitary napkin. Gross!

I had the 'pleasure' of trying Secretions without knowing what it was (as part of a blind swap) Sissi below was part of this, too.

Luckily the sample came in a small vile, so I applied just one swipe of the platic applicator (so no overdosing). My first thought was 'this is rubbing alcohol'. And that made me keep a fair distance between nose and wrist.

In the end, I disliked it so much that I had nothing to say about it. This is what happens wiht me if I really, really don't like something: i won't even bother tryign to come up with why.

I do think that if I'd known what it was I would have tried to be more descriptive, but in the end I simply washed my wrists of it and that was it.

Secretions Magnifiques Is like being slapped in a face by a raw fish it's the most revolting thing i ever smelled
is this a perfume or some horrible science
experiment that went wrong if you just
take a q tip and collect a scretion of a man's sweaty arm pit a pap smear and i agree to all of you's blood there's no
evidence of florals my gag reflexes
where through the roof this is the most
sickest thing ever!!!!!

Secretions Magnifiques is a smell, not a perfume. And a bad one too. It reeks of rotten eggs, semen and partially dried blood - a sweet-metallic concoction that reminds of a slaughterhouse waste dump. I'm generally rather thick-skinned when it comes to all kinds of smells, but this one does kick in my gag reflex. It's so animalistic and organic and reminiscent of our bodily functions and excretions that it sends me right on the hallways of a busy and not very clean hospital, awakening disturbing feelings of thanatophobia and nosocomephobia. It smells of death.

Again - not a perfume, but an experience. A memorable one I'd add.

To give to people you don't like. :)

I consider myself open minded; so much so that I actually love perfumes that most people balk at (even if I can't wear them due to mismatched chemistry.) But I'm going to make the boldest statement I've ever made on this site:

I think this perfume was made for the Anti-Christ!! Because I cannot possibly think of ANYONE else wanting to wear something that smells like blood, semen, sweat, rank fish, and rotting eggs. To say that it "stinks" is an understatement of the highest degree!

I sincerely apologize to those who appreciate this perfume. But I disagree that it takes an "open mind" to appreciate such vileness. This is not a masterpiece. It takes no special talent to make a perfume consisting of such vile scents.

Stay away, unless you think you really can handle it....

This is the smell of Hell.

I got a sample of this-- with all the hype I just had to find out for myself---No guts, no glory---Right? I applied 2 or 3 drops on my wrist and was immediately assaulted by this Vile Stench. It literally shocked the hell out of me. Then after a minute, no guts no glory---Right? I sniffed my wrist. It was this ghastly ugly metalic stink that I could not identify as having any resemblance to blood or milk. Blood smells really good compared to this. After a few more minutes the stale piss odor develops along with semen which must come from a dirty degenerate. And still this horrible mettalic odor continued. I tried to smell any floral or coconut, or any other bloody thing at all--but to no avail. I endured this hell for 20 minutes, thanking god there was no sillage. I had to sniff my wrist to smell it. I'm sure it would have lasted forever--those kind always do, don't they? As it is I scrubbed 3 times, applied cream and resprayed with High Line, and finally pulled myself together after this not to be repeated, test of all that is disgusting, experiment in perfumery. If I wanted to smell something this bad I would stock decaying food. Maybe next time--

Once upon a time, there was a lovely, fresh iris fragrance, wich has happy with her talcy, delicate flower aroma over her sweet woody base. But one day she got really sick, died, and become a zombie. And then she turned to be the beast that we knew as Secretion Magnifiques.
You can percept, since you apply it on skin, the subtle flower and woody aroma, but burried in that it`s a chemical beast that will stick in your skin and your nose and will refuse to go away. This beast accord smells like dog vomits and spoiled egg that broke on the floor and stayed there for weaks. Be warned, this smell will not go away and you`ll not be able to completely remove it even if you rub alcohool at your skin aggressively.
If Devil wears a fragrance, Secretion Magnifiques is one of his favorites.

After reading the reviews and watching the videos I decided I'd rather smell like bologna.

It is imperative to approach this with a completely open mind.

As soon as it is sprayed, I get powder and floral. While iris is a powdery floral I pick up on a bit more light floral than just that.

Next comes the main, and very distinct, component, ocean. It smells exactly like the North Eastern Atlantic ocean. It's salty and aquatic with an ozone (fresh) note coming into play, along with a metallic note as well. It's a little bit harsh but it settles down in less than five minutes.

At that point the harshness begins to recede and while there is still the oceanic element, there's more of a BO note rather than the sharp metallic note. The coconut and a sweet note emerge and take center stage with the floral, however the powder note has long since dissipated.

In this moment it is an aquatic scent with coconut, light sweetness, the floral at its height and odd species of sandalwood (perhaps it is meant to smell like driftwood).

As for the notes the website says are in it, here is my take. The adrenalin accord I attribute to a translation of the ozone note. The blood accord that is described is the metallic (iron) note that is in there. I don't get the milky note at any point. Everything about this scent says marine/aquatic with a musky undertone to me.

I think the reason so many people reject it is because it is not familiar. It's not the norm, mainly floral, sweet, delicate or easily defined. If you aren't open to something outside of your comfort zone, don't even bother to attempt to try this one.

I have no plans to purchase this one because even though it smells just like the ocean when you first come upon it, that is not a scent I find pleasant. If you're obsessed with the ocean and want something that has an authentic smelling salty aquatic note, give this a shot.

O.k, so maybe im going slightly against the grain here, but i cannot associate this fragrance with anything 'bad or sexy', so therefore i do not find this rancid or repulsive at all!!

Bear with me whilst i try and give my interpretation of this scent ;)

The metallic quality this has, is very natural smelling and not synthetic at all, it reminds me of talking a long walk in the great outdoors, inhaling lungfuls of fresh air, and once back indoors, you get a lingering smell of the metallic ionised air clinging to your clothes and hair, i also do get a kind of 'wet dog' essence, but it isnt disgusting, more like you have taken your dog on the long walk with you.

I get a powdery Iris overtone that lingers, mixed with what i discern as being lily of the valley, which can, depending on how you perceive this fragrance, a complete off-putting contradiction to the metallicy essence of this scent, or it will make you feel as though you walked through a field full of flowers whilst on this long walk, to me, i get the latter. It just adds to the whole feeling of this fragrance, giving it more depth and likability.

The 'blood' element is simply brought on by the fact that both blood and this fragrance are metallic in nature.
I do not detect a 'semen' note whatsoever, as personally i dont think semen is a highly scented substance anyway, so that doesnt add a horrific scented-surprise.
I also dont detect any of the other 'odd' frangrance notes of sweat and milk either.

To me, this is just a scent of the great outdoors and fresh metallic ionised air.
Nothing disgusting or vomit-inducing.

After everything i had read and the katie puckrik video exclaiming how bad this scent was, i found it to be almost positively pleasant, definately not as evil as it sounds (but i admit i wont be running out to buy a bottle :) )
I do however, think this is pure genius.

P.s i layered this scent with Montales 'black Aoud' and that gave an interesting combination :)

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I was so curious to try this nonconformist perfume, and being so enthusiastic about it I sprayed a few times on my hand....Very bad idea…Instead of feeling pleasure, as I usually feel when I smell something pleasant, I smelled the most disgusting scent I’ve ever smelled in my life.

You see how human brain works, if we are told that this perfume contains notes of sperm and blood, we will sure ignore, the rest of the notes no matter what. So, this is what happened to me.

Don’t get me wrong, I don’t find the smell of semen bad and disgusting at all. In fact I really like It (sperm especially) but this scent is so chemical, so synthetic, that almost made me feel dizzy.

I smelled an iron smell in it, an artificial smell of semen, and a bit of coconut…

I thought I will love this one, but I didn’t, and imagine that after spraying it, the smell remained in my blouse for many days, and when I took again that blouse, the smell was so intense that even my colleagues noticed it.

Though, I decided to try it again, everyone and every perfume deserves a second chance, so let’s see what happens next.

It is such an original scent, that makes me think at very horny teenagers and their beds.

When I showed the testers to my colleagues they were disgusted, but not from the same reasons like I was.

They didn’t like it because they were thinking about human body fluids, I because this one smells very chemical.

Bye!

Secretions Magnifiques smells the way Diamanda Galas's voice sounds. Hideous and beautiful at the same time. I first smelled it and pulled away in shock. More shocking than that was that I kept sneaking more whiffs. salty and metallic, and a bit floral. Fascinating!

rotten oranges, blood, semen.
I was curious so i tried. Artwork i agree but like i never wanted any twisted masterpiece on my wall, godblessme i would not like anything on my skin like this!

I ordered a sample of this. When I smelled it my limbic system wanted to leave my brain. I think it's awfull, it hurts my nose. I cannot imagine anyone likes this. I'm curious of the "nose" who created it.

Pure distilled evil. This was truly f**ing traumatic. So sorry to be coarse but if you have ever smelt this unholy beast of a liquid you will agree & if you haven't let this be a warning! I tried it for novelty value & I am now trying to calm my racing heart. Truly, it was that awful & even frightening. You would only smell this in nature if someone was in real peril and you were next.

At first sniff I thought, 'Yuck! But it is not as bad as I thought it would be...' Oh but wait, the horror hadn't even begun. It grew to such magnifique appallingness that I threw up a little and was gagging over the toilet trying to control myself. Jizz, death & oranges. My man got vomit & bourbon. Truly a grotesque, macarbe & visceral 'thing'.

FYI - scrubbing with soap, water & a nail brush does not work. You need methylated spirits or listerine to get the mongrel off.

I am perplexed by all of these horrible reactions...It is such a warm,inviting,and original scent in my opinion(and-may I add-the opinion of MANY perfume experts)I guess it does take an open mind to appreciate it,though.

When I smelled this for the first time, I was completely unaware of what it was and what it's meant to smell like. Long story short, the smell caught me off guard, and I was left standing there wondering what sort of perfume is this and who would wear it. It smelled nothing like generic "perfume". All I could smell was blood and...dog hair? Because of the acrid smell, I thought it was some sort of Avant Garde, unusual fragrance. There have been many perfumes that I disliked and this is one of them. It wasn't until the assistant told me it's supposed to smell like semen that it all made sense and I quickly put down the bottle.
I think it's amazing that the perfumer behind this managed to create it. But I don't think it's the sort of thing you want to smell like. When it comes to perfume, first and foremost it must be a scent that I love and I use to please my own nose before others. This is not something that would please my nose, and definitely not something I would spend money on (well except maybe use it as a prank on someone)

Either my nose, or my skin, or all of me together are crazy...!!!!
i opened it and sprayed on me,, orange, freshly squeezed orange, from the metallic sqeezer like the one we had home when i was young, strong, nice refreshing came out, lovely!!! stayed like this for about half an hour, so nice i had to smell it over and over, and then i started feeling the comfort of wood with littttttle coconut,,, maybe the blood is the metallic note, if someone has tasted blood knows that smells and tastes metal,,
different for sure,, an oasis of difference amongst so many new perfumes with amazing marketing and posters and lovely pics- that are all together the same in the end... i am only afraid that it might stay not very long,,love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

PS.My husband just smelled it, and noded aproovingly, saying '' -that's veryyyy you!!!!-

three hours after application,, what is this wonderful creamy scent that makes you want to keep your nose close to where you applied it?? To me its the iris and the coconut,soft, comforting,contempting...I am definetely bying this one, wonderfull on my man as well..

Okay, I ll remain all alone with this, but I love it. I cant smell anything -bad- in there, I just smell aldehydics, something fruity and sweet and fresh. Quite edible. But something about this fragrance is so unique I had to have it anyway. A bit like candied cucumber with some salt and a bit of a mix of flesh/blood and fish, but I like these smells. I am nearly through with my 100ml bottle and people never reacted in a negative way, some liked it, some said it were way to artificial...

To quote Robert Plant:

"squeeze my lemon 'til the juice runs down my leg"

(I know this quote loosely belonged to others prior to Plant's use, but SM really only applies to the way Plant sang [screamed] it.)

Seriously, though, before looking at any reviews or notes (I try to test blind whenever I have no previous knowledge of something that shows up in the mail), this struck me as seminal. Put more politely, it's a romp on a tropical beach. There is coconut in the top, with some dry green herbaceous/citrus notes, then a very metallic "salty" note. It mellows out after a while, leaving behind only the feeling of swallowed salt water. Reminds me of something Demeter would put out, only made with better ingredients and with some note tiering.

I rarely find a perfume I won't wear, but I have met my match. However, I give it a good rating for being interesting, and fairly well-done, if not to my taste (no pun...).

Update: All day this scent haunted me- despite a good scrubbing I kept smelling it everywhere, even in tangerine peels! Its felt presence made me uneasy-like maybe I forgot to take a shower.

Update #2: Wearing this in a very arid environment on the back of the hand (dry) makes it more tolerable. DO NOT wear this anywhere it might combine wth moisture on your body.

I too like blood and semen. I like sweat, wee beasties, a bit of piss and soiled nappies as well. I like a lot of dirty things (even if I don't necessarily want to wear them), but something in this fragrance triggered a part of my brain I never wanted to be roused out of its state of disuse.

The reviewer Rouge summed it up very well: I admire this fragrance, but smelling it is like being forced to lick rough, cold metal whilst simultaneously inhaling nasty odours.

However, I would be curious to see what my reaction would be if I were to encountere someone who used this. I feel like the audacity of wearing such a scent might be quite enticing...

i should have read fragrantica more before i happily trot to the shop which sells ELO and decided to take sniff on Secretions Magnifiques... why?
first, it was ELO, i dont get much shops selling less commercial perfumes in the city. when the sales lady says the shop carries ELO, i immediately put a date in my calendar to come back to the shop and try the line
second, the name and illustration on the bottle! i tought it would be something magnificent and animalistic and strong and heady and wonderful ( i am right about the strong and heady part...)
so...i took a sniff... and...
my nose revolted against me... forcing me to immediately gave the bottle back to the sales lady.
MAN! what smell was it??? To my nose, it smelled like a piece of well worn leather jacket, tha has been soaked in sweat of numerous people and got showered in the rain, dropped in a mud patch, stepped on and no one has bothered to dry it ever since.

am i sniffing a rotten perfume? expired, over heated perfume that is stored in a leaked bottle near the garbage bin? and then, i log in to fragrantica... from your comments, i think i can be 99% sure that i sniffed a proper bottle of Secretion Magnifiques, not rotten one.

unique, yes
revolutionary, indeed
surprising, certainly
strange, absolutely
want it on myself or on anyone else sitting/standing beside me? NOOOO!thank you.

"Fetid Necrosis" - now there's a name for a perfume!!!! Seems anything goes these days, so why not?

DIO BONO!
(Italian for GOOG GOD!)
Sorry about the rude expression.
I received a whole bunch of samples from the Etat Libre d'Orange and I liked nearly none, but this one cannot even defined as a bad perfume. It's rather a well made horrible smell. Revolting is the word. If I ever met a guy with this scent on I would vomit.
It's like pushing your nose in an overused dirty male panty. Rotten fish, hormonal disease, blood, everything that the human body produces as waste.
Once I was in a bar in the centre of Milan and suddenly I smelled an awful stink. It was a man dressed in leather coat, sunglasses and a rich attitude. Everything in him screamed: "Look at me, I'm rich and important!" It seems that evry item could have a pricetag worth 400 euro and more. He was saying stupid things to the barman and he stank like a male sweating goat. I thought he was dirty or maybe he was just wearing Secretions Magnifiques. What a class!
As per Luca Turin I don' remotely care what he says. He goes on with his work regardless of a simple rule: personal tastes. He throbbed Amarige as the hell of smells and a badly done work of perfumery and he raves for Secretions Magnifiques. No way!
Well, I think that when you need your books to be bought every year you need to impress people.
Is Secretions Magnifiques a work of art? Yes, but which art?

I tried this on my wrist in a department store in Moscow. I knew what to expect from the description but it still surpassed my imagination. A cautios little sniff from afar and I'm hit with concentrated aldehydes that are reminiscent of cold metals and rotting meat. A close sniff and I was assaulted by the strangely metallic scent of blood and something I could only describe as vomit. I couldn't wait to scrub it off, I kept a tester strip as a bookmark and now the whole book smells like dried blood and metal. I agree with Renato, this could work as a self-defence spray, surely anyone would be sick all over even using the tiniest of sprays.

I don't get the blood and semen smell out of this that others do. You know that really bad smell that you get when you come across a cat that's been run over and left sitting there for many days? Well, I'd class that as a relatively mild compared to this scent.

In his book "Perfumes: The Guide" Luca Turin rates this scent at Five Stars, which is his best rating, while simultaneously rubbishing scents like Chrome, Laguna PH and Just Me For Men with one star.

I do see Secretions Magnifiques as being of use though. In those countries which prohibit its citizens from owning mace or pepper sprays, then this scent may not be a bad alternative.
Renato

P.S. In Australia, the bottle does not look the same as that pictured here. Instead it has a depiction of a phallic symbol which is ...... Need I go further?

As a scent, it's a masterpiece. I think that as in painting, in the art of perfumes the most difficult thing to do is reproducing things of nature, natural scents. It smells like sweat, blood, sperm and very cold metal. Special? Yes. Wearable? At least for me, absolutely not. They present it like a intimate fragrance, made to be worn at encounters about wich you know are going to end in bed. Personally, I don't find it inspirational in that direction, but it intrigues me, it makes me want to smell the skin where i sprayed it, not because it's nice...just because it makes me curious.
Do you know the movie (made after Suskind's book), "The Perfume"? i think this is it...
I'd like to know if anyone actually wears it.

GOOD GOD!

In January of 2007, I moved from NYC (because it was killing me), to Portland, Maine (a city, no town, as dull as it is picturesque), and moved in with my best buddy Wayne. Wayne is a terrific punk rock bass player and music aficionado, superb cook, both in the restaurant and at home, possessed of a very quiet, almost shy, yet hilariously deranged sense of humor. He's the quiet nice guy in high school who is secretly slaughtering all the cheerleaders, and an all - around good guy. Our neighborhood had a terrific Asian grocery store, run by a nice Cambodian lady. I cook a lot of Asian food. There's a Cambodian seasoning ingredient called PRAHOK. Prahok is made by taking lots of fresh water fish, mixing it with cooked sticky rice, and letting it ROT. Literally. It doesn't smell like the more familiar fish sauce; it smells like a gigantic Roquefort cheese, hollowed out and stuffed with month old gym socks. It is one of the vilest things you could ever imagine smelling, but when cooked into a Cambodian, dish, the hellish funk disappears and becomes a mysterious RICHNESS; the food is quite different without it, it adds a third dimension. I had a practical joke I'd play on Wayne when we'd be drinking beer, that I called The Cambodian Sanchez, a non sexual derivative of a probably mythical procedure called The Dirty Sanchez. (If you want to know what THAT is, find out on your own.) It involved my sneaking up behind him and thrusting the open jar of prahok under his nose, producing lots of screaming (from him) and diabolical laughter (from me). Well, I've found a better stink, and I've christened it The Orange Sanchez. Secretions Magnifiques smells like low tide. Iris, Sandalwood, Coconut, and Opoponax? Maybe so, but all is completely steamrollered by the hellish nitrile component (Luca Turin is right...and by the way, all awful smelling organic scents contain a nitro group...organic chemistry, y'know) I got this an hour ago, and literally SHRIEKED in horror when I put a teensy-weensy bit on my hand. And the shit DOES NOT wash off. If this were a musical group, it would be the prototype of industrial music, Throbbing Gristle(appropriate name, too), or Captain Beefheart's album TROUT MASK REPLICA. Not pleasant, and certainly not wearable in public, I still think this is amazing in an art type of way. Nobody says art has to be beautiful. I know most everybody will think that I am in need of a padded cell for saying this, but this is surely some kind of amazing achievement. I warned you.

This is one of the most vile, putrid things I have ever smelled. I get none of the notes listed - instead blood, sweat and semen, in an extremely concentrated form.

Why anyone would want this, or want to smell it, is beyond me completely. I have never had such a horrible reaction to a scent before, but this is just awful.

It smells to me like dog's wet hair. This perfume like all the Etat Libre perfumes is eccentric and extravagant. But if I want to smell like dog's wet hair, I'd better wash my dog and embrace it )). It's free of charge.

I must say I never been so repulsed by a fragrance in all my life, and I am one to sniff anything once. Thankfully I was sampling this in the privacy of my own home; I think I would have been sick all over the counter if I had inhaled this in a boutique. I quite literally gagged as I was desperately scrubbing this off.

Luckily (and deeply puzzling to me) my husband did not have the visceral reaction I did, he was knitting his brows with a giant question mark on his face while I was trying to hold down my dinner in the other room. Perhaps he was taking it like a man or perhaps it simply wasn't as vile to him.

I must question the description of this scent as woody. At least to my nose notes of blood, sweat, semen, tears and a dose of milk do not a woody scent make. Perhaps you are rewarded in the dry down with a nice woodiness, if you can make it that long.

I am sure some will think this is intriguing and it is certainly original, but I beg anyone willing to try a sniff: please approach with caution!

I've heard it recreates some human "scents", like sweat, sperm, blood...
Nice, uh?
Disgusting...

I need a button up there to say "I Hate it". I have never smelt something more disgusting than this scent. It's blood and metal and illness.

Of course, I can't get any iris, sandalwood, coconut or opoponax.

I love rarities and original things, unexpected scents, strange niche fragances but this... This is too much for me.
To say something good about it: it lasts forever.