The Orange Extraordinaire Collection

Experimentum Crucis 2019

Experimentum Crucis by Etat Libre d'Orange
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7.1 / 10 199 Ratings
A limited perfume by Etat Libre d'Orange for women and men, released in 2019. The scent is floral-spicy. The longevity is above-average. It is still in production.
Limited Edition
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Main accords

Floral
Spicy
Fruity
Animal
Earthy

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes Top Notes
CuminCumin AppleApple LycheeLychee
Heart Notes Heart Notes
Rose absoluteRose absolute HoneyHoney Jasmine absoluteJasmine absolute
Base Notes Base Notes
PatchouliPatchouli Akigalawood®Akigalawood® MuskMusk

Perfumer

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Ratings
Scent
7.1199 Ratings
Longevity
8.0148 Ratings
Sillage
7.4149 Ratings
Bottle
8.1148 Ratings
Value for money
6.777 Ratings
Submitted by ExUser, last update on 02/02/2025.
Interesting Facts
The fragrance is part of the "The Orange Extraordinaire Collection" collection.

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Reviews

8 in-depth fragrance descriptions
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Scent
Deja1sabel

294 Reviews
Deja1sabel
Deja1sabel
1  
sweaty cumin
Opens with a juicy and fresh fruity blend of apple and lychee but quickly develops into a cumin ridden mush. The cumin is insanely strong in this and it’s not even a bad note, it just smells like dead ringer cumin…and nothing else. It’s just cumin from the spice cabinet put at the forefront of the fragrance. The heart of this does offer a dose of honeyed rose to blend with the cumin but the cumin still remains fairly prominent. The dry down is a rosy, woody musk, with dirty & dusty patchouli. Didn’t enjoy these notes put together, the cumin was a crazy addition, and the florals here are pretty heady.

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8
Bottle
6
Sillage
8
Longevity
8.5
Scent
Emorandeira

393 Reviews
Emorandeira
Emorandeira
1  
Different and special rose perfume
Mmm... I think this is a very interesting perfume. The protsgonist is the rose, but It is a different rose, this is not the typical rose based scent. Here the rose is blended with patchouli, fruits and musk. The patchouli un this fragance is not very intense but subtle and delicate. The fruits and the honey give tinte perfume some sweetness. It is interessant the presente le the lychee.
The performance is as in the other etat libre d'orange fragances that i have tried. About 6-8 hours but with a soft projection. It seems an intense scent at opening but then fades out and becomes a skin scent. By the way It is a special and different perfume, unisex and better for day time use.

Scent: 8.5
Longevity: 8
Sillage: 6.5
Versatility: 7.5
Originality: 9
Quality/price: 6
Global: 8
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Cherlyn

23 Reviews
Cherlyn
Cherlyn
2  
Successful Experimentum
It was a blind buy in my case which I don t recommend in this case ot any other. But thanks God, it was a succesful one. I was a bit disappointed innthe start, when I smelled for 10 minutes a soft rose with some talcum, something like Pomellato Nudo Rose. The start has nothing to do with this beautiful, haunting name - Experimentum Crucis. But the.more it developes on the skin, the more it provides interesting deep notes like cumin,, somthing woody and a beautiful mosc in the end. It is not exactely as dramatic as I was hoping for, but it is beautiful and interesting. Nothing oriental in it and happily no oud.
The sillage is good, longevity very good for 4 hours. The bottle is also interesting. Test it before!
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7
Sillage
8
Longevity
7
Scent
FloatingTime

20 Reviews
FloatingTime
FloatingTime
2  
A cheerfully gothic rose, patchouli and wood combination
After a very cumin-heavy opening, Experimentum Crucis settles into an old fashioned rose, incense-like wood, patchouli en musk. I perceived something rubber-like shortly after the opening, but (thankfully) this went away after about 15 minutes.

To me this is a slightly gothic smell, especially after the first half hour, when it becomes a soft cloud of rosewood, fancy patchouli incense and musk. Maybe it's the name, but it does make me think of crowns made of rose-thorns, dragging crosses (or at least wearing them), churches and romantic graveyards filled with rosebushes. The goth here is a fairly cheerful and ironic one, not an angsty kid in a love-hate relationship with their inner demons (for that one, I would rather recommend Hermann à mes côtés me paraissait une ombre).

Experimentum Crucis has a pretty impressive projection and longevity. One spray on my wrist produced frequent wafts during 5 hours. Even after these 5 hours and a shower, I kept smelling it on my wrist for 5 hours.

This fragrance is not unpleasant but also not my style. If for some reason I would try to emulate the atmosphere of a church, I would rather go for Passage d'Enfer, which is more subdued, much more subtle and more photorealistic.
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3
Scent
Chloerose666

114 Reviews
Chloerose666
Chloerose666
1  
Fine after 3 hours, the opening makes it terrible
Unfortunately (as with a lot of ELDOs to my nose) this reeks of Cumin, which incase you need to hear this, stinks of BO. It smells like a sweaty underarm in a hot country with not great sanitation. If you can cope with smelling like an unwashed street dweller for at least 3 hours, this becomes quite a pleasant rosey-honey-musky-goodness scent that I would happily wear, without the battle to get to it.

I recommend just trying Eau De Protection instead if you're set on ELDO, because it smells of flowers and not curry. Sorry to be so rude about a fragrance but I did get particularly irritated with ELdO and the fact a lot of them smell similar to me, and also very synthetic, very much too 'food spicy' like technically this is a gourmand because it definitely smells edible, just not the sweet edible I want from a gourmand
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13 short views on the fragrance
GeorgeReidGeorgeReid 2 years ago
8
Bottle
8
Sillage
8
Longevity
8
Scent
Cumin, musk, and patchouli sounds like a disaster, but it works if you don't hate these notes.
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KuraiKurai 2 years ago
7
Sillage
7
Longevity
4
Scent
A nasty rubbery opening, an overly metallic-powdery mid and a forgettable ending. Other than that, it is a perfectly fine apple-rose-chouli
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AtlasHuggedAtlasHugged 8 months ago
5
Bottle
6
Sillage
7
Longevity
3
Scent
Rose is far too overpowering, seems poorly blended. Seems far too sloppy for ELDO
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MarythoughtMarythought 2 years ago
4
Scent
Tires. I am just getting tires. But not in a wholly unpleasant way? My spouse liked it on me so I will probably hand this tester over to him
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GavarrusGavarrus 1 year ago
8
Bottle
6
Sillage
7
Longevity
9
Scent
Beautiful rose scent on the more ''masculine'' side. This perfume undoubtedly gives off a luxurious spa/hotel lobby feel.
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FelixTonightFelixTonight 2 months ago
8
Bottle
8
Sillage
9
Longevity
5.5
Scent
A bright, juicy burst of lychee, rose, and crisp apple opening, but the dry down turns into a sweaty honey with an unsettling old smell…
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SofiaEinarSofiaEinar 12 months ago
A rose scent that feels sombre to me. It has some bitterness too it, possibly from cumin. Most potent of the ELDO scents I have tried.
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NA12NA12 1 year ago
9
Bottle
8
Sillage
9
Longevity
5
Scent
Mostly cumin and patchouli overpowering the rose and apple notes. Dark and heavy scent.
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TheDunkPapaTheDunkPapa 19 days ago
8
Bottle
6
Sillage
8
Longevity
9
Scent
Smooth not-smoke, not-incense with aqueous feel, bitter rose and powdery soap. More masculine and "niche" Hermann à mes Côtés.
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PerceiverPerceiver 26 days ago
similar to amouage fate man, less sharp, more powdery. a less complex fate man sprayed into a clean baby wipe…. but in a good way
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