The Afternoon of a faun of Etat Libre d'Orange: An olfactory dance between the dream and the carnal

Family olfactory: spicy aromatic

Output notes: Bergamot, cinnamon, incense

Heart notes: Rosa, Iris, Jasmine

Background notes: Mirra, Leather, Benzoí

Perfumer: Ralf Schwieger

Year of launch: 2012

As if emerging from a symbolist poem or a score of Debussy, The Afternoon of Faun of Etat Free d'Orange is presented as a perfume that is not limited to perfuming the skin, but makes it a stage. Scenario of an erotic, wild, confusing and beautiful dream. It is a composition that breathes art, dance, poetry and provocation. It is a tribute to Nijinski, yes, but also an ode to sensual animals, to desire without censorship and memory that dissolves as an incense in the air.

Since its first spray, the Bergamot sparkles like a flash of Sun between the leaves. But it is not a fresh and conventional output; Next, an enveloping cinnamon appears, spicy, almost intoxicating, as if the warmth of the afternoon claimed its place. The incense, dense and reverential, marks a subtle contrast, a sensual shadow that begins to weave the veil between the real and the dream. It is as if the perfume invited you to enter a mythological forest where everything can happen.

The heart of this fragrance is pure dream. A velvety rose melts with a dusty and sophisticated iris, while the jasmine brings that carnal and slightly indomiting nuance that raises sensuality without making it vulgar. It is a floral center that does not seek to please predictably, but seduce through ambiguity. As a memory that you do not know if you lived or imagined. As a body that slides between silk and naked skin.

The background is where magic reaches its climax. Mirra, with her resinous and almost sacred sweetness, creates a narcotic atmosphere. The leather appears as a primitive whisper, an echo of the faun dance that still resonates in the hot ground. Benjuí, with its balsamic and ambar., Wraps all the composition on a warm and persistent wake. Here, the perfume becomes touch memory, in a sigh that lasts even after the body is gone.

The Afternoon of A Faun is not understood without an artistic context. Inspired by the poem of Mallarmé and in the scandalous ballet that Vaslav Nijinski played in 1912, this fragrance moves to smell the same tension between the sublime and the carnal. In this Paris presentation, critics were divided between amazement and indignation: eroticism was no longer implied, but incarnated with explicit desire gestures. And that is precisely the essence of this perfume: an open representation of desire, body and fantasy.

The collaboration with MX Justin Vivian Bond brings a contemporary layer, Queer, which breaks down the rules of gender and celebrates ambiguity as a form of art. This perfume is not masculine or feminine; He is wildly human. He talks about the freedom of the body, of pleasure without labels, of the scandal as a statement of existence. It is an olfactory experience that is also political, poetic and deeply sensory.

Etat free d'orange, as a perfumer house, has made excessive and the provocation of its natural language, but The Afternoon of Faun is not a scream: it is a whisper that chases you. A fragrance that stays with you as the echo of a damp dream, like the perfume that leaves someone on the pillow at dawn. It's not about pleaseing everyone: it's about to be a spelling who is ready to get lost.

Carrying this fragrance is like dancing with closed eyes on a forest glade. How to let the skin remember what the mind has already forgotten. It is, no doubt, a perfume for those who dare to cross the line between the real and the imaginary. For those who know that desire is not explained: it smells. It feels. You live.