L'Etat Libre d'Orange

Eau de Jizz? French Perfume Company’s Got Some Wack Scents

Posted by: Leonora Epstein Filed in: style
12:40PM, Thursday September 24th 2009

The French have some weird ideas when it comes to personal odors. To wit, what I like to call the “French Shower,” is where you don’t bathe for three days and douse yourself with deodorant and perfume. Which is why it doesn’t surprise me that French perfume company, L’Etat Libre d’Orange, produces a range of bizarre scents.

The labels tend to say it all, but to get to the nitty-gritty, “Sécrétions Magnifiques” interprets the essence of semen, which comes off as a heavy, musty smell with hints of iris and coconut. Then there’s “Vraie Blonde” (true blonde), with a label implicating that the carpet matches the drapes, and an aroma of champagne and rose. Other choices: “Je suis un homme,” with a label sporting a penis-shaped gun and “Putain des Palaces” (slut of the palaces), pictured with a key entering a vagina-like shape.

Thanks to “Sécrétions Magnifiques,” the penis perfume, I will never again be able to associate the word “spritz” with fragrances. [Etatlibredorange.com]

comments

mizfitz
wrote on September 24 2009 @ 11:57 am: [report]

i somehow actually want to smell these

Jessalyn
wrote on September 24 2009 @ 12:02 pm: [report]

Oh, this reminds me of the deodorants that are advertised as lasting for 48 hours. Ick!!

impoddity
wrote on September 24 2009 @ 03:58 pm: [report]

Well, the French are certainly NOT lacking in creativity.

effing hickster
wrote on September 24 2009 @ 10:31 pm: [report]

At the risk of sounding gross, there is something to be said about an odor on your fingers the day after sex…but in a perfume? Ewwww.

retro chic
wrote on September 24 2009 @ 11:03 pm: [report]

//Thanks to “Sécrétions Magnifiques,” the penis perfume, I will never again be able to associate the word “spritz” with fragrances.//

Leonora: ...Neither will you be able to think of those “money shot” ambushes from fragrance reps in le department store the same way. [eau no!]

effing hickster
wrote on September 24 2009 @ 11:07 pm: [report]

@retro chic: It would be on odd coincidence if there were a rise in raincoat-wearing men in the fragrance section of the department store, wouldn’t it?

retro chic
wrote on September 24 2009 @ 11:19 pm: [report]

@ef: ...odd coincidence? you mean more than the ones already lurking in women’s sections? Yes, and would spur a sale on matching hat and goggles, too!