Have you ever wanted to smell like drool, blood, or crotch? One Paris company hopes so.
Normally, people put on perfume to not smell funky, but one chic Paris parfumerie in the Marais district has decided to turn the very concept of perfume on its ear by making some, ahem, interesting choices for its scent bouquets. We’re talking blood, semen, saliva, sweat, hot tar, carrots, and even crotch smell. The perfume maker Etat Libre D’Orange is working on some very odd-smelling perfumes.
Etat Libre d’Orange spokesman Amandine Cresp notes that traditionally, perfume is used to cover the natural smells of the body, but scents today have more options than they did back then. “Today, even if we are still subject to this theory, perfume has overtaken the need for basic hygiene and has become something more subjective and personal.”
Among the smells offered by the company are Sécrétions Magnifiques–“like blood, sweat, sperm, saliva, Sécrétions Magnifiques is as real as an olfactory coitus that sends one into raptures… the slightly salty marine effect stirs, arouses and sets your mouth watering”–and Comme des Garçons–“hot asphalt on a Roman street filled with car exhaust and the scent of fine leather-soled shoes softening on the pavement.” As for the most interesting scent note, Entrecuisse (which translates as Crotch), is described by the company as follows: “Entrecuisse has the moistness of a snooze in summer, the taste and animality of honey, the bitter sweet savour of almonds and the warmth of spices. Its obsessive smell sticks to fingers and melts in the mouth.”
If you want to put on perfumes with names like “Hotel Slut” and “Belly Button,” then you’re going to pay roughly $91 per bottle to get the appropriate funk of your choice. Still, you’ll have a signature scent no one can replicate, unless they get a bottle of perfume that has been designed around their DNA.
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