Hanging out in the online fragrance community and visiting some unique fragrance boutiques did give me warning that Etat Libre D'Orange had some unique perfumes, and La Fin Du Monde, which is my first selection out of their Almost Complete Discovery Set is made up of one of the most unique set of notes/accords I've seen. I guess an "End of the World" fragrance would have to be interesting! We've got popcorn, carrot seed, cumin seed, sesame, black pepper, freesia, vetiver, sandalwood, ambrette, orris, styrax, and canon powder! To my nose, this is a very earthy clean, fresh, peppery scent. Thankfully, it doesn't smell like popcorn and cumin at all to me! It's completely inoffensive, in a your-skin-but-better sort of way. It has the tiniest hint of sweetness to offset ... MoreHanging out in the online fragrance community and visiting some unique fragrance boutiques did give me warning that Etat Libre D'Orange had some unique perfumes, and La Fin Du Monde, which is my first selection out of their Almost Complete Discovery Set is made up of one of the most unique set of notes/accords I've seen. I guess an "End of the World" fragrance would have to be interesting! We've got popcorn, carrot seed, cumin seed, sesame, black pepper, freesia, vetiver, sandalwood, ambrette, orris, styrax, and canon powder! To my nose, this is a very earthy clean, fresh, peppery scent. Thankfully, it doesn't smell like popcorn and cumin at all to me! It's completely inoffensive, in a your-skin-but-better sort of way. It has the tiniest hint of sweetness to offset the pepper and earthy floral. It's a beautiful blend and I genuinely like it!

ELDO has a way of creating fragrances that smell exactly how they sound, yet not how you'd expect. First spray of Jasmin Et Cigarette smells exactly like cigarette ash specifically - not the tobacco but the actual grey ash, with jasmine essential oil next to it. It quickly dries down to a sweet apricot and tonka bean with the ash becoming more of a dry tobacco, and the jasmine carrying across very mild. I tend to have a love/hate relationship with jasmine in fragrances, but this is an excellent use of it as a balance of contrasting scents. After about half an hour I'm getting in order of noticeability: sweet tobacco, jasmine (the essential oil type jasmine smell), amber, apricot, musk, hay, and cedar. I think having the apricot underneath is the difference between ... MoreELDO has a way of creating fragrances that smell exactly how they sound, yet not how you'd expect. First spray of Jasmin Et Cigarette smells exactly like cigarette ash specifically - not the tobacco but the actual grey ash, with jasmine essential oil next to it. It quickly dries down to a sweet apricot and tonka bean with the ash becoming more of a dry tobacco, and the jasmine carrying across very mild. I tend to have a love/hate relationship with jasmine in fragrances, but this is an excellent use of it as a balance of contrasting scents. After about half an hour I'm getting in order of noticeability: sweet tobacco, jasmine (the essential oil type jasmine smell), amber, apricot, musk, hay, and cedar. I think having the apricot underneath is the difference between this being "just jasmine and cigarettes" and something really amazing.Jasmin Et Cigarette is surprisingly wearable. If you find the initial ash scent offputting just give it a wait for the dry down before drawing your conclusion. This would be a great scent to accent that leather jacket look, or for a bar/very casual setting.

La Fin du Monde EDP, released in 2013, is classified as a woody aromatic fragrance with notes of gunpowder, popcorn, iris, carrot seed, ambrette, black pepper, and sandalwood. Imagine that you have somehow survived a catastrophe of biblical proportions. Your head lifts above the darkness to find that you have been covered in black soot and residual gunfire. You search through the almost certainly destroyed ground for any sign of life. Suddenly, you find one, but not in the way you think - you find a single standing iris. You become overjoyed, optimistic that life maybe didn't die out after all. TLDR, it's dark and peppery at first but becomes softly woody and powdery as it ages. It's certainly a unique blend that would need an air of confidence, or the right ... MoreLa Fin du Monde EDP, released in 2013, is classified as a woody aromatic fragrance with notes of gunpowder, popcorn, iris, carrot seed, ambrette, black pepper, and sandalwood. Imagine that you have somehow survived a catastrophe of biblical proportions. Your head lifts above the darkness to find that you have been covered in black soot and residual gunfire. You search through the almost certainly destroyed ground for any sign of life. Suddenly, you find one, but not in the way you think - you find a single standing iris. You become overjoyed, optimistic that life maybe didn't die out after all. TLDR, it's dark and peppery at first but becomes softly woody and powdery as it ages. It's certainly a unique blend that would need an air of confidence, or the right mindset, to pull off. Performance is average for this EDP, though - moderate sillage, and lasts up to 5 hours on the skin. This perfume house has got a way with scent concoctions, and this is no exception. Much like Attaquer de Soleil, it doesn't quite live up to its moniker, as it projects a softer approach to the end of the world as we probably have pictured it. Sure, it starts out abrasive and dark, but whimpers out into this soft buttery powder. Not very threatening and bleak, if you ask me. This is certainly another one to sample before buying in full, but I would probably think of this as a very weak interpretation of what the end could be. However, if you've never tried a gunpowder opening in a fragrance, sample this one.

I bought this hoping to find something similar enough to PDM Athalia that I wouldn’t need to shell out the exorbitant price tag, but instead found that this is in a league all it’s own. On me, the leather and animalic notes are very present and keep this from coming anywhere near “grandma’s purse” territory as can often happen with powdery violet/iris fragrances. It smells like a woman wearing very classic powdery floral perfume after “putain”-ing with a man wearing leathery cologne. Very sexy in a more traditional feminine way, but with a dirty undertone.