The Ghost in the Shell Etat Libre d'Orange 2021

The Ghost in the Shell by Etat Libre d'Orange

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7.3 / 10 310 Ratings

A perfume by Etat Libre d'Orange for women and men, released in 2021. The scent is synthetic-fresh. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Synthetic

Fresh

Creamy

Floral

Citrus

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Hexyl acetate

Aqual™

Yuzu

Heart Notes

Sensual skin accord

Jasmine absolute

Mugane™

Base Notes

Vinylguaiacol Orcanox

Orcanox

Moss

Perfumers

Julie Massé, Mane

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Ratings

Scent

7.3310 Ratings

Longevity

7.3236 Ratings

Sillage

6.5237 Ratings

Bottle

7.9207 Ratings

Value for money

7.2159 Ratings

Submitted by VentoAureo, last update on 03/22/2025.

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Reviews

29 in-depth fragrance descriptions

12/09/2024

Zaneexplain
20 Reviews

Zaneexplain

Helpful Review 5

Close your eyes

I always used to be confused when I read people wear scents to bed -- now I get it.

This is the softest glow of light, slowest exhale of breath, simplest peace of mind.
This scent is Major Motoko Kusangi on top that building in the first opening scene of GITS. She's smelling the cool night air, reveling in her bodily existence with all its confines and boundaries. She knows she's about to jump and pull the slickest move in all of copaganda media, but she's also here - right now - on top a building bathing in twinkling red aviation lights that stretch out into a sea of glass infinitum.

These are your dreams, sleeping in this scent.

06/18/2023

7.5
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DogiCoco
581 Reviews

DogiCoco

Helpful Review 3

Retro-futuristic clean skin

I love the 1995 anime of Ghost in the Shell (never watched any other versions). It's an absolute classic.
This perfume doesn't catch the gritty atmosphere of the film, but it's nevertheless interesting and maybe even a bit cyborg-like.
The opening is very fresh and soapy with a burst of bitter, zesty yuzu. It really has a new plastic note, but underneath it is a warm jasmine and something else that gives it a skin-like feel. The bitterness of the first blast calms down quickly, so the plastic feeling isn't as aggressive anymore. It smells like a soft plastic doll that was washed with a very astringent citrus soap. And why shouldn't a cyborg's skin smell similar to that of a doll?
The texture of the scent is a bit milky, which makes sense as ELDO lists a "milky skin accord" on their official site (it's called "sensual skin accord" on Parfumo as I'm posting this). It's not a realistic milk note though.

This is a very clean, intentionally synthetic scent. I find it more feminine than masculine. I don't think this is the future of perfume like the marketing says, to me it feels more 90s retro-futuristic, which ties it to the anime again.
As I'm not a fan of in-your-face clean scents, this is not for me, but I found it interesting to sample and like it for what it is.

12/20/2024

8
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Deja1sabel
294 Reviews

Deja1sabel

Helpful Review 3

Uncannily clean

this one is incredibly interesting in the best way possible. Yes it’s a clean scent profile, but it’s a unique one. This opens very fresh and metallic, with bright citrus. It feels like if you asked a robot to make you yuzu lemonade. The florals here are so…transparent? They don’t read overtly floral, they’re airy and light and offer a hint of earthy sweetness here, mixed with a creamy lactonic skin like scent. The best way I can describe it is the smell of a baby’s head, and for anyone that has smelled that you would know how crazy good it smells for no reason at all. To me it smells like maybe if you asked AI to replicate the smell of a baby, it’s oddly sweet, somewhat human like, a bit fresh, but there’s something making it not spot on, which is okay. The dry down is earthy but not in a rich or deep way, but an airy earthiness, a fresh one, with an almost cold metallic undertone. This is an intoxicating smell and it’s so hard to pinpoint what about it is so good, but I think it works, in all its odd nature.

12/28/2023

Inglebop
7 Reviews

Inglebop

2

Flesh of armor

I got the discovery set from Etat Libre d'Orange, sprayed once on each of my wrists and twice on my neck. Also a bit congested at the moment, so I will retry gladly when I've recovered. On paper, it had absorbed a lot of the blotter's scent and smelled sort of generically clean, perhaps like the outside of a glass bottle. On my skin, it comes in with a clinical yuzu, tinged with some sort of cold ferric note. It projects very briefly, perhaps thirty minutes, then settles like a thin film of metal tegument, flecked with a chilled white floral. As it develops, it seems to melt, merging with y skin into a rubbery milk. I don't find that the yeastiness or clove elements emerge into any sort of natural body musk for me, mostly just like a dust. I really enjoy this scent, find it very airy and wearable, not too strange. Creamy without being sour. Shame it doesn't last very long on me.

I am very new to the world of perfume, so I am having a lot of fun with exploring new ingredients. From my very brief study interlude, I've discovered Aqual is an aldehydic captive created to replace lilial, slightly green, but mostly watery and diffusive. It bolsters the natural citrus juiciness of the yuzu in the top note with a white floral and marine quality. Mugane is the corresponding alcohol to the aqual molecule, and it blends with other lily of the valley scents (I've seen it before with jasmine like here, and I think I've seen it also paired with orris)? Hexyl acetate also has a fruity green note, leaning into pear, although I get the crisp wateriness of it initially, I don't get its smell. Vinylguaiacol is an aroma component of buckwheat, important for distilled spirits, lending sweetness and smokiness in things like whiskey, rum, peanuts, chocolate, spice, and so on -- somebody online (https://basenotes.com/community/threads/any-experience-with-4-vinyl-guaiacol.544907/) said that on its own it smells clove-like, fine and soft (like isoeugeol); then has a bit of the sterile smell (like guaiacol? / phenol), then very slightly vinegary (like acetic acid, perhaps lending to the fermented smell?). I think orcanox is the ambrette molecule that provides woody, powdery muskiness and longevity which is synthesized from "sclareol, a natural compound extracted from exhausted clary sage."

12/21/2023

6
Pricing 8
Bottle 4
Sillage 7
Longevity 10
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Dssszzz
1 Review

Dssszzz

Helpful Review 2

mothercyborg

If I had to describe this scent, I'd ask you to imagine the most perfect looking human ever, with soft and smooth skin and no BO, no hair, no discoloration. Almost like a cyborg, too-perfect imitation of a human. Now imagine that person breastfeeding. That's how Ghost in the shell smells to me.
This scent is definitely unique, but I would say it is not that weird/off-putting, so it would be ok for someone trying niche perfumes for the first time. It is not for a god option for a blind buy, though. And test it straight on the skin.

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