Etat Libre d'Orange The Ghost in the Shell

Etat Libre d'Orange The Ghost in the Shell was launched in 2021, a unisex fragrance created in collaboration with Masumne Shirow (legendary Japanese manga creator), inspired by the natural merging into the artificial.  They used a blend of synthetics and naturals.   Look, any time someone references Dan Simmons' Hyperion as a reference point for creating a perfume, I'm all the way in.

Notes of aqual, yuzu HE, hexyl acetate, jasmin absolute mugane, milky skin accord, moss accord, vinyl gaiacol and orcanox.

From the Etienne de Swardt:

"It is a night of pale moonlight, a night toward the end of the 20th century, a night when the old world is ending and the new one is beginning. It is a night when one trembles to boldly lower the sacred cross against the heart, to aid in the passage to fatherhood.
So, as a crucifix, that night I pick up Hyperion, a novel by Dan Simmons. This is a masterful science fiction saga that celebrates the infinite legend of the French Jesuit priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, who was a 20th-century researcher, paleontologist, theologian and philosopher.
And I read, pacified, until the reflections of the dawn, until the first golden rays of the East. I read the future of man, the celebration of transhumanism and the qualitative leap of humanity enhanced by machine. I have rarely loved a book this much, I have rarely loved a thinker this much.

I read that night what a man thought he saw in the tombs of time.

I am a lover of words in the service of materials when they come together to make poetry in the bottom of our bottles; thus, a few years ago, I bring up the work of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin to one of the last living vestiges of the triumphant 20th century, and I ask him: - "Then Teilhard de Chardin, precursor of genius?" A look, a silence and for the answer four unexpected words, four words whispered by my father: "GHOST IN THE SHELL".

This is the act of birth that makes the spirit of perfume. The rest is poetry to live on the skin.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin died in 1955, but his spirit continues to travel. This fragrance extends it through an alliance with the Japanese artist Shirow Masamune to transcend the spirit of Earth.

By mixing biotech and natural materials, this perfume silently celebrates the wake of the future and also whispers of a day to come, by providence or chance, when humanity is reunited and organized. A day when all consciousness is summoned by the infosphere to constitute a superior being and pass from the inert to the living. As the molecules assemble to make the living, we will then make a qualitative leap that becomes the starting point and arrival of transhumanism.

This perfume is the future. It comes to us from the 20th century.

Ghost in the Shell, a perfume that speaks of the human phenomenon and its paradox, a perfume to wear on oneself ab libitum, at one’s pleasure. A perfume as a propagation towards the other, that makes you the axis and the arrow of evolution; modern, indeed! From the bottom of the matter, rise up." 

Etat Libre d'Orange The Ghost in the Shell is an eau de parfum, edp. 

Etat Libre d'Orange The Ghost in the Shell Reviews

Fragrantica - "Incredible how the notes twist and turn. This one has me all over the place; very interesting. A contradiction in many ways."

Fragrantica - "The opening is a burst of pear—crunchy, crisp, more than dripping juice. It dries down within a few minutes to something more real, like a pretty woman sitting by the pool on a day that isn’t particularly hot with a yuzu cocktail in hand, the kind of woman who doesn’t take shit but is just naturally pleasant and kind. No harsh edges but not very approachable so you don’t want to bother her. Her conditioner smells like something of milky pear and traces of the scent are left in her hair from the shower she just took, along with the sweet muskiness of jasmine scented lotioned skin."