Vierges et Toreros by Etat Libre d`Orange

Mellyhelly

Still another Etat Libre I can't understand or stand. I could say it is an artistic experiment. I could. The truth is what I mostly look for in perfume is pleasure of my senses and there isn't a hint of that in most Etat Libre scents. Not in Vierges et Toreros for sure. I don't wear masculin scents, but this is not the problem here. Here the problem is this weird obsession for organic human smells. Why?? I don't even know what it smells like, but if I could say it's blood with earthy dust.
I try all my Etat Libre samples before reading their flamboyant concepts, because I want to be free of influences. I opened the vial and got freightened. The second day I dared putting a few drops on my skin. Terror and disgust. Then reading any marketing story gives no sense. I'm not much into leathery scents and this could be a reason for my dislike. Maybe.

mariotgomez

This is definitely a different scent. I have had a sample of this for a while and hesitated to try it since it had tuberose. A scent I enjoy in it natural source but normally not in a fragrance.

Vierges et Toreros opens up strongly with the pepper accords. I get hints of ylang ylang mixed with the cardomom & nutmet. You begin to think the tuberose get lost with the base notes (leather, patchouli and vetiver). As the fragrance begins to dry down and disappear, hints of tuberose awaken.

Being of Spanish decent, I admired Toreros (Bull Fighters) and wished as a kid to be one (until I saw one gored). I enjoyed watching the beauty of the dance between the bull and the torero. Always remembering how the torero respected the bull.

Like a bull this fragrance must be appreciated and approached carefully.

It is a masterpiece in how ELdO is able to put tuberose into a masculine scent.

rebella

Seem like evrybody screaming when they try ELO´s Secretions Magnifique... I didn´t, but this one made me scream. And then it wasn´t even me trying it, but my husband.

On him it smell like worst kind splatter movie I can imagine, like something that could be called The Garden Party Massacre, cause it´s no doubt about this being a floral... pretty, sweet and white flowers all covered in ruby red, thickening blood! A lot of blood also! And OMG do I hate the smell of blood??? Really repulsive for me... I was screaming to my husband to go and wash this horrid perfume off at once, even tough he didn´t think it was anything wrong with it. Belive me he has no olfactory sense what so ever!

I have to admit I don´t have the guts to try this on MYSELF! Anyway, my middle daughter got home and I let her smell it and she adored it immediatly so I gave it to her.

So please keep this perfume as long away as possible from me, even tough I have to admit that it is a real masterpiece from an artistic point of view, and appearantly I´m the only one in my family that can smell the note of blood Or at least the only one that can´t handle it... did I mention that my husband works at the emergency room at a hospital? I guess he kind of like blood...

Really worth trying, nothing I have smelled comes even close...

Eau de moi

I tried this one even if it's a men fragrance, as I got lots of samples from Etat Libre d'Orange. I will qualify it of unisex since some women like leather and dry fragrances.

I must say that I really like it! I love spicy perfumes in general. All the spices mix well with the few flowers and the leather. I even smell tobacco.

Not the regular fragrance for sure, but I must admit that I am kind of a weird person... lol

guest_all the junk

a perfectly crass and dry leather accord à la Kouros (apparently the animalys base from synarome according to Luca Turin) with a gentle touch of salicylic florals (apparently tuberose) on the other end that feels like sunny velvet and sea breeze (isoamyl salicylate plus some coconut lacones?)

fragrancefiend

I've been on a leather fragrance kick and this one starts sweat, like white floral combined with leather and then settles down to a nice authentic leather - maybe too authentic for me. I like Chanel Cuir de Russie better. This only lasted a couple hours before I couldn't smell it anymore.