Sunday, September 30, 2007

ETAT LIBRE D'ORANGE

‘Perfume is dead! Long live perfume!’ This new shrine to scent is its own kingdom. Nathalie Feisthauer, Antoine Lie, Antoine MaisonDieu (grandson of Camus and trained as a ‘nose’ by Jacques Chaubert, inventor of Chanel’s Cristalle) have launched an unusual collection of subversive signature scents for a new world order: ‘Secretions Magnifiques’, ‘Putain des Palaces’, ‘Jasmin et Cigarette’…. Each perfume has a quirky story attached, and although scents of bodily fluids, say, may not seem immediately attractive, the fragrances are definite growers. Despite the boutique’s rather ordinary mod-esque typography/ décor, the concept and scents are original and interesting. Fragrance dispersers are lined up along the rue des Archives for public appraisal. Inside, the boutique is tiny, black and minimal; a calm post-modern boudoir.
69 rue des Archives, 3rd. M°Rambuteau.
www.etatlibredorange.com/

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