Look what's here! That's right, it's Tom of Finland! I had a great opportunity to get it so I decided not to miss it.

My perfume diary 11: This smells like leather, clean skin, musk and pine/wood 6/10 (I love Tom of Finland and I wish this was stronger )

Tom of Finland une fragrance gourmande et opulente signée Etat Libre D’orange

TOP 5: Etat Libre d’Orange

Bir markanın en çok sevdiğim parfümünü düşününce bir de markayı çok seviyorsam ne yazık ki seçim yapmakta zorlanıyorum. "Etat Libre d'Orange benim seçim yaparken en zorlandığım markalardan biri. Düşündüm durdum ve en çok hangisini seviyorum diye sordum kendime. Bir tane bulamayınca ben de TOP 5 yazısı yazmak istedim. Neden sadece Etat Libre d'Orange diye düşünebilirsiniz. Bu aralar en çok Etat Libre d'Orange kullanıyorum.  Farklı, sıra dışı ve çekici parfümler her biri. Hepsi birbirinden başarılı ama ben en çok sevdiğim 5 ELDO parfümünü sizinle paylaşmak istiyorum.

1-RIEN: Sadece bir tane ELDO seçmek zorunda kalsam, muhtemelen seçtiğim parfüm Rien olurdu. Çünkü bir parfümde aradığım her şey Rien'de mevcut. Farklı, güçlü, esrarengiz ve bol bol paçuli kokuyor. Kalıcılığından bahsetmeme gerek yok sanırım. Günlerce üzerine sıktığım herhangi bir şeyden kokusunu alabiliyorum. Soğuk havalarda üzerinize 3 kez sıkın ve kendinizi O'na bırakın. 2-TOM OF FINLAND: ELDO, erotik bir çizgi dizisinden esinlenerek tasarladığı bu parfümüyle oldukça sansasyonel. Hayatımda kokladığım en seksi parfümlerden biri diyerek başlamak istiyorum yorumuma. Olağanüstü bir tasarım. Parfümer Antoine Li deri, styrax reçinesi, huş ağacı katranı, safran, iris ve balzamik notalarla kalp atışlarını hızlandıracak bir akora imza atmış. Kokusunu tarif etmem çok zor. Sadece denemeniz lazım. Benim için Tom of Finland benzersiz bir olfaktif deneyim. 3- ARCHIVE 69: Archive 69 bir hermafrodit. Ruhunda hem Kadınsı bir cazibe hem de erkeksi bir vahşilik barındırıyor. Benim için bazen zor bir koku, bazen ruh halime göre aradığım "o" parfüm.  Esrarengiz ama giyilebilir sınırlarda. Parfüm dünyasında önemli bir otorite olan Luca Turin Archive 69 için 5 üzerinden 4 yıldız vermiş ve onu "Incense Rose" olarak tanımlamış. Archive 69 imza parfümden ziyade kesinlikle bir mod parfümü ve aşırı seksi! 4-VRAIE BLONDE: Parfümeriye gittiğim zaman yeni bir şeyler denediğimde beni şaşırtan bir parfümle karşılaşmam çok zor artık. Denediğimde çığlıklar attıracak, gözlerimden ışıklar çıkacak, şaşıracağım falan yok yani. Vraie Blonde ilk denediğimde bana bu deneyimi yaşatan parfümlerden biri oldu. Enfes bir parfüm!  Ve tabii farklı bir koku ama gene giyilebilir tarzda. Şampanya, şeftali, gül ve aldehitler… Lezzetli, dayanılmaz ve kesinlikle gerçek bir sarışın. 5- ROSSY DE PALMA EAU DE PROTECTION: Yazılarımı okuyanlar gül merkezli parfümleri sevdiğimi bilirler muhtemelen. Gül gül kokandan ziyade gül gibi ama başka notalarla sarmalanmış gizemli gülleri seviyorum. Frederic Malle Portrait of A Lady, Ormonde Jayne Ta'if, Tauer Incense Rose, The Different Company Rose Poivree ve Serge Lutens Rose de Nuit koklamaktan en çok zevk aldığım gül merkezli parfümler. Rossy de Palma ilginç, kıvrak ve baharatlı-oryantal bir gül tasarımı. Ama kesinlikle Arap tarzı değil modern bir oryantal diyebilirim. Heyecan verici ve benzersiz!

Etat Libre d'Orange “Tom Of Finland” Review

Etat Libre d’Orange “Tom Of Finland” Review

“Tom Of Finland” This scent has an initial pop of latex rubber that you would find with fetish fashion clothing. Very creatively combined with notes of musk and suede. That initial note fades away rather quickly and what is underneath is a nice musky spicy men’s cologne. Longevity is ok on this although I did reapply for the evening. They have definitely captured the mystique, fun and fetish…

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TOM OF FINLAND by ETAT LIBRE D'ORANGE

Tom of Finland by Etat Libre d'Orange

I finally returned to it and Oh My Gods... It's so good! So, this was a bit of a specific choice - it's pride month and I wore a leather jacket and very tight black jeans (and a very see-through deep v-neck t-shirt) and then I came to the store and did something unimaginable for me - I made six (6. SIX) pumps of this fragrance. And I never regretted it - I felt amazing wearing it while it lasted (unfortunately not too long on me - a couple hours - but definitely for a while on the jacket).

It bears repeating - I can bet something important that people who say it smells like latex and condoms because they know it's named after an artist who draws gay porn have never seen a single work by Tom of Finland, much less used by its intended purpose (I did though) - because I've never seen a single condom or a latex garment in his work. So, as you could have guessed this is no what it smells like for me.

For me and on me it sounds like an old suede/soft leather jacket straight out of laundry (I feel more aldehydes here than in Number 5, last time I tried it), Finnish forest in the summer - pine needles and birch tar - especially in the middle of its development - and some slight nicely added sweetness (pyramid-wise, I'd say it's more tonka beans than vanilla). It's very gentle but while it's there it's pretty noticeable.

I get that part of my fascination with this is the fact that I love Tom of Finland and his work but even if so - I loved this fragrance and I'd love to have a bottle.

ELdO, my ELdO:

Archives 69 by Etat Libre d'Orange - so the main note here is camphor and I'm frankly not sure I've ever smelled it in real life but this perfume is very unusual but very pleasant. The main note sure is something I can't describe, but there's also incense and some sweetness from the plum (and benzoin). Will return to it.

Divin'Enfant by Etat Libre d'Orange - genuinely marshmallow with tobacco and maybe bit of leather and some orange flower on top. It somehow reminds me of something and I couldn't tell from the start but putting blotter with its base to nose I'm realising - it's a fancy hotel lobby. Also pleasant and unusual - not sure I'd want to try it, especially since everything on me gets sweeter and I think this is perfectly balanced as it is.

La Fin Du Monde by Etat Libre d'Orange - genuine not very sweet popcorn especially at the start. Not sure about gunpowder - but there's some powderiness to it. At the bottom mostly not too spicy spices. Why is everything so interesting?

Soul Of My Soul by Etat Libre d'Orange - mostly suede with something to sharpen it up a bit - maybe bergamot and rose. I prefer suede from my beloved Tom of Finland, but this one is also nice.

Spice Must Flow by Etat Libre d'Orange - yet another wonderful rose jam - sweet, a little spicy with a bit of incense at the background to stop it from becoming syrupy. Might return to it.

Cherry Punk by Room 1015 - never in my life tried Lost Cherry, so I can't compare but this one surprised me. When I breathed it in at the start, I was ready to say - "Wait, where is cherry?" but then at the aftertaste - when I was breathing it out - I found the cherry - sweet and juicy. But in the foreground there's definitely mostly leather (somewhat soft) and some spices. At the bottom there's much more sweetness, but not too much and the leather is still there, just a bit quieter. Definitely returning to it.

Sweet Leaf by Room 1015 - that's celery. And a bit of parsley. What do you mean cannabis and grapefruit? It's a green salad. It's pleasant - I like celery (both the smell and the taste) - but I'm not sure I'd want to smell like it. I like the brand's aesthetic though, so I'll definitely try more of their stuff.

This Is Not A Blue Bottle 1.2 by Histoires de Parfums - returned to it and didn't regret it. Not sure I yet again feel lilacs but the start is bright and floral and pretty fresh (I might dare say that ylang-ylang at the start here is somewhat like it's in Chanel №5). Then it gets tamer and its sillage that I felt from my hair (I made a few generous pumps) confused me, until I understood - it's lily-of-the-valley, but not in its slightly poisonous hypostasis (like in Silver Lily-of-the-valley) but it's much sweeter - softened by vanilla - very very pleasant. The very base is mostly slightly floral vanilla - sweet, but not too sweet. I loved it and it's being added to the long wish-list - I might get a travel (especially since Histores have very nice travels).

Quite an odd collection this time - I've been to a "New Dawn" (Nouvelle Etoile) store and a fancy niche perfume store in one day so you're getting both. :)

Red Moscow/Moscou Rouge cologne by New Dawn - the classical of the classics - just four years older than Chanel №5 and Habanita. I tried edt and perfume and cologne and decided to get the lightest one - they're only different on concentration (unlike some other fragrances - I'm looking at you Dark Crystal). Yet again it's a little difficult to distinguish notes - it's slightly spicy flowers with somewhat soloing carnations. Very lovely, very vintage, honestly just wanted to have some for collection. (There will be an adventure of putting it in another bottle, because it's a splash - meaning inconvenient to use.)

Silver Lily-of-the-Valley/Muguet Argente by New Dawn - my hunt for lylies-of-the-valley continues and I was so unsure about it. I thought this would not be an experiment but a crush test - and gods was I wrong. This is really nice - the titular flower all the way though a bit more aggressive at the start, a little sweeter at the end, stayed on me at least four hours, had some sillage. Now I'm unsure which I want - this or Yves Rocher's Muguet, especially since they cost almost exactly the same per millilitre.

Tom of Finland by Etat Libre d'Orange - I wanted to try at least something by this brand (I know they have interesting concepts) and you know me - how could I not try a fragrance named after Tom of Finland himself! I would have been cautious, if I hadn't already heard a review that's actually light and inoffensive. I found out it has a little surprise at the end, but all in order. It opens up very fresh - much brighter aldehydes than I felt last time I tried The Fifth - then gets a little heavier, has a long period of being soft leather/suede and wood notes and at the end dries out to be a little saltier. So, the surprise (for me) was that ambergris - one of the ingredients at the base of this fragrance - while nowadays is synthetical, originally was solidified whale sperm and it's supposed to have "a skin-like salty and warm effect" - guess that's what gives me pleasant saltiness at the end. So, if we want to find an actual Tom of Finland illustration for this I'd say it's one of those more lovey-dovey vanilla ones, where two guys are having fun in the fresh air of Finnish woods and their leather jackets are thrown on the grass in the background. Anyway, I loved it and want to try again.

Fat Electrician Semi-Modern Vetiver by Etat Libre d'Orange - if I know the legend of this perfume correctly (and fragrantica somewhat confirms it) the theme continues. For this one I have much less to say - because the main accord is supposed to be sweet and I feel nothing sweet there at all. As far as I can tell I mostly hear slightly bitter woody notes of vetiver and at some point in the middle there was some sourness which I cannot really attribute to any of the listed notes.

Attaquer le Soleil Marquis de Sade by Etat Libre d'Orange - the theme still continues... Anyway - this is a mono-fragrance of labdanum and I have no idea what it's supposed to smell like (I guess like this?). It's very unique... Fragrantica says labdanum can be leathery and it's somewhat applicable here but it's some odd bitter rough leather and there's definitely something else which I don't have the language to describe. Definitely want to try again, even if just to experiment.