Une Amourette - Roland Mouret Etat Libre d'Orange 2017

Une Amourette - Roland Mouret by Etat Libre d'Orange

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Une Amourette - Roland Mouret (Etat Libre d'Orange)

7.3 / 10 150 Ratings

Une Amourette - Roland Mouret is a perfume by Etat Libre d'Orange for women and men and was released in 2017. The scent is woody-spicy. It is still in production. Pronunciation

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Main accords

Woody

Spicy

Floral

Synthetic

Sweet

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Cardamom

Pink pepper

Neroli

Heart Notes

Iris

Peach

Patchouli

Base Notes

Akigalawood®

Opoponax

Vanilla absolute

Perfumer

Daniela Andrier

Ratings

Scent

7.3150 Ratings

Longevity

7.8121 Ratings

Sillage

7.1123 Ratings

Bottle

7.5120 Ratings

Value for money

6.742 Ratings

Submitted by Franfan20, last update on 18.12.2023.

Reviews

7 in-depth fragrance descriptions

04/09/2021

10
Bottle 7
Sillage 8
Longevity 8.5
Scent

ErhanSaceros
20 Reviews

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ErhanSaceros

Helpful Review 11

A tree to hug

No! Not like King Söder once did. Not in such a half-hearted and distant way. This tree from the house of ELDO, I want to hug it tight. Never let it go. And sniff it constantly.

I can usually do little with woody notes in perfumes. I'll happily put up with them as supporting actors/supporters, but when they take center stage, I quickly get bored. Woody notes are for me often unlively, inflexible, stubborn, boring and (too) dry.

Now here I have discovered a woody that truly blows me away. Whether synthetics play a role in the patchouli oil fractionation for the extraction of Akigalawood, I can not judge. Chemistry was unfortunately my weakest subject.

But god, is that woody note so authentic! It seems cool, breathy, smoky, alive, fresh (sawn), and partly damp. It is not somehow transparent or hazy to perceive. It is crystal clear, spicy looking, and close enough to touch. I feel very safe with it, and in the process, something familiar is triggered in me. Whether I have smelled a similar woody note in the forest, in my grandparents' village or even in other fragrances, I can't say. But the fact is that I do not get rid of this homey feeling.

And as if that were not enough, this brilliance is underpinned by a soft, powdery, subtly floral-sweet cream and partially fused together. In this, the wood doesn't lose character at all. Here I guess the careful dosage of vanilla and iris.
A certain relationship to the powdery note in "Eight & Bob - The Original" I can not deny. I had also very much liked there.

Here, supposed opposites make great theater. Even if the cool wood is dominant in relation to the creamy-blue-warm note, a surprisingly successful contrast was still created here. And I find the color gradient of the bottle reflects this also skillfully! Even if there are no major changes in the fragrance itself, the continuous balance between the actors is admirable.

06/23/2019

8
Bottle 7
Sillage 7
Longevity 8
Scent

Flaconesse
55 Reviews

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Flaconesse

A wild affair

All of a sudden, those feelings were there. Was it his scent, his walk or her smile that suddenly sparked the sparks? Looks meet, say more than words. A hint with the fence post is no longer necessary, it simply falls into the middle of the action in the form of several boards from Akigalawood, buries everything, dusts pepperily through the area, numbing, intoxicating, everything capturing. Why does it feel so exciting, so new? Was it because he was taken or because he was too young? Because he never dared to dream he could cast a spell over this proud woman?

Stormily rolling around in the sheets, cannot get enough from each other, until one sinks completely exhausted into the gentle arms of the bitter orange blossoms, which are blown up in a light breeze. A new consciousness is awakening. More gently than before, almost sweetly mild, like breathed kisses, on the palms of the hands, the neck, the eyelids. Protective and loving, the delicate veil of white flowers lies over the wood, creating a bewitching tension of aromas here and there. They keep looking at each other to make sure of the situation. Nice words fall and even more tingling looks. The first iris blossoms stretch their heads through the waving blanket of neroli, complementing the sea of flowers.

It does not remain with an encounter, not with a moment, but who could have foreseen this before. Hundreds of beautiful and painful, exciting and tender feelings arise, which are preserved forever, somewhere in a secret hiding place. And when everything is finally over, a last pale breath of pepperiness remains, reminiscent of the wild times and the sweet, conciliatory scent of vanilla, quietly whispering: "Yes, it was worth it! and all heartaches can be forgotten.

Une Amourette - I would do it again.

03/02/2018

jtd
484 Reviews

jtd

Very helpful Review 9

suntan

Perfume marketing tends to induce tsunami-sized eye-rolls in me, so I have a love/meh relationship with Etat Libre d'Orange. Love the perfume, cringe at the 'stories' the brand gives each of its perfumes. The scene-setting melodrama can be interesting as a side-bar, but the 'story' is irrelevant to the experience of the perfume. So when a friend recently turned me on to Une Amourette I started the odd little two-step I find myself doing with most ELDO perfumes: enjoy the perfume and just ignore the story. But the dance takes enough effort that I eventually give in, read the text and have a laugh.

I had just written some quick notes for myself that started with, "It’s a lovely, conservatively proportioned floriental. A contemporary take on a traditional genre." when I decided to take a peek at ELDO's take on Une Amourette. There designer Roland Mouret's is quoted: "Une Amourette is a no-holds-barred fragrance. It is not for everybody. It’s divisive. It will corrupt the fragrance category with its subversive positioning." Oh, for fuck's sake. Really?

Une Amourette isn't divisive or subversive in the least. But you know what? It's gorgeous. Forget corrupting categories and just dig the feel-goodness of Une Amourette--that's where this perfume hits its stride. A peppery citrus opening is the freshest, though not necessarily the brightest moment of the perfume. Matte, spicy, creamy-powdered florals illuminate the perfume from within and transfer their glow to your skin. A mineralic vanilla-almond accord forms a backdrop for the skanky white florals and reminds me of the way Bellodgia set a spicy carnation against a chewy marzipan stage curtain for maximum effect. Here the result is less powdery, more mineralic and far more modern than comparison to the old Caron perfume might imply.

The heartnotes blend into a listless olfactory image of vintage suntan lotion. The particular combo of solar florals and creamy woods actually suggest a whipped-smooth beige or khaki tone. The almond-vanilla accord reinforces the image with a matte sand or putty tint, but perfumer Andrier takes a page from Coco Chanel's book. What you notice in historical images of Chanel's collections is not the plainness of the color but the uncluttered design, the perfect drape of the fabrics, the impeccable tailoring. The difference between the perfect beige and dinginess is slim and the potentially dull ‘color palette’ of Une Amourette could have been its downfall.

Like Chanel, Andrier's manages to make the olfactory ‘color’ chic. She reassembles olfactory cues to shift from a beige hue to tanned skin, from flowers to sun tan lotion. The perfume’s easy finish and seamless transitions make it an effortless wear but don’t disguise the details. The floral accord's heavily indolic breathiness reinforces suntan lotion's implicit suggestion of parading flesh barely contained by swim trunks and bikinis. Andrier gives you skin and sun. Flirtation and exhibitionism. Skip Mouret's story of corruption and subversion. Just dig the potential of Andrier's suggestive scenario and fill in the rest for yourself.

(from scenthurdle.com)

11/05/2020

9
Bottle 5
Sillage 6
Longevity 7
Scent

Altholz
37 Reviews

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Altholz

Furniture polish meets canned milk?

Freshly sprayed on the skin: WOW! Lightly peppery patchouli in a wooden coat. I like it very much!

But then already after about 1 minute the shock! Where did the ingredients that had just been smelled disappear to? They really did hide behind a wall of an indefinable mix of furniture polish and tinned milk. OK, a very slight hint of vanilla is still perceptible, but Iris completely misses my nose. I can't understand the described sauna and pharmacy comparisons either, especially not the comparison with the great "BlackPepper" by Comme de Garcons. There the captive "Pepperwood" was used, which shines here completely by abstinence.

Now, however, after about 2 hours, the unbelievable follows in the drydown: the fragrance has completely changed again to a slightly sweetish dry wood with a subtle iris note in the background. Unfortunately, it has now become a pure Skin Scent and the canned milk only shines through slightly. It's a pity, but not a candidate for me.

09/21/2023

9
Pricing 10
Bottle 7
Sillage 8
Longevity 8.5
Scent

Ooonidda
5 Reviews

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Ooonidda

Helpful Review 2

Hermann has a date

Somehow I can't get Hermann à mes côtés me paraissait une ombre by ELdO out of my head while I'm sniffing my wrist.

At first, une Amourete is very tart, as some have said before me, medicinal. The fine cardamom is clearly defeated by the pink pepper. But then suddenly something warm shimmers through the herbaceous, tart start. It is the iris, which immediately pushes the peach forward. It is oily, heavy, sticky and creamy, like a peach sweet that has become warm in your handbag and sticks to the paper when you unwrap it. It becomes earthy in the background, the start mixes with the earthy note and you don't know where the cardamom-pepper-neroli ends and the patchouli begins. Sticky sweet and earthy cool and soft and the slightly powdery iris soon settle down, it is the vanilla and the woody note that have now arrived.
The opposites merge and combine. The woody note unites the wild mixture and goes perfectly with the powdery, sweet and dark and the earthy and tart. I don't really notice the vanilla, but it makes the whole thing round and warm. The theme is spot on - a wild meeting of two opposites, effervescent and willful and yet harmoniously united.
A strange, captivating fragrance I can't get away from my wrist for 2 days, it tends towards the masculine, my skin initially prefers the tart and not the powdery, but the warmth and sweetness come to light as soon as you stop and pause, the autumn scent is found.

Let's come back to Hermann, I understand my association better after a quick look, pepper and patch the cold earthy spicy of Hermann can also be found here, but this fragrance is wilder, warmer, closer to the body.
The melancholic Hermann probably went on a date with a peach sweet in his mouth to cheer him up and an iris in his hand as a flirtation attempt and was successful.

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