The Ghost in the Shell Etat Libre d'Orange 2021
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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."
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."