Antihéros Etat Libre d'Orange 2006

Finally, the house État Libre d'Orange has chosen a fitting name for one of its perfumes.

Antihéros first conveys to me a coumarin-like, musty sourness, malty notes with minty undertones.
This strikingly resembles the scent notes released by lavender flowers that have been stored in a container for a long time.
The protagonist of so many perfume compositions reduced to its banal, less appealing aspects?
What has been created here is not an aestheticization of a natural aroma,
but a powerful highlighting of the ordinary/ugly in the scent of lavender.
This approach and the means (flatness, rough strokes, graininess, and the mythologizing secularization of myths) fit, in my opinion, very well with the pop-art image that État Libre d'Orange wants to convey.

Ironically, the overall impression is more pronounced and rougher, one could also call these attributes masculine, than the commonly used representations of lavender in perfumes.

For me, a great pleasure.