Description
She has all the assets of platinum blond seduction. A full fledged décolleté, shapely hips and a sensuous catlike walk. A perfectly curvaceous body in a sequined lamé dress, a Technicolor version of the American dream! Accords of ambergris, fur and white pepper evoke an excess of luxury, the flashiness of casinos, women in sheath dresses and Marilyn naked under a mink coat. Is she a real blonde ? To know the answer one will have to wait for nudity… Flushes of aldehydic notes fill the bedroomair, a tribute to the perfume the star wore at night, red-hot kisses enhanced by a bubbling thirst-quenching pink champagne note that leaves one panting. One feels like biting into this lovely sugared almond. Everything a brunette ever dreamed of !
Composition: Aldehyde, liqueur brandy of champagne, rose, peach of grapevine, white pepper, myrrh, patchouli…
Nose for this fragrance is Antoine Maisondieu. Edition 2006.
HACKER980 – :
The aldehyes + champagne stand out the most and it smells of a hangover to me. Or not even hangover just that time when you know you have drunk too much and you need to sleep but the room is spinning :/ I guess just my memory associations with this one aren’t the most ideal. One too many college hangovers 😀 Whoops. Even that sweetness in the background makes me think of the wish to throw up to get rid of the room spinning. Also a bit soapy and plastic. I think this musty boozy soapy concoction is for someone with no traumatic hangover flashbacks 😀 I get a similar vibe from anything with juniper berries (gin).
*After a few myrrh dominant fragrances I have had a revalation. Myrrh smells like alcohol induced vomit to me. :/ Sorry lovers!
IIomudop – :
This is an indie fragrance so for me this is new territory but Etat Libre D’Orange is commercially successful and they turn out such interesting frags.
For me this is a sweet fruity booze with some leather and patchouli, which makes it very ‘mature’ and though sexy it’s something I would detect from the neck of a much older blonde divorcee or cougar in a fur coat. Reminds me of my mother who has lived in colder and warmer climates – New York, Boston, DC, Florida and California. This is too ‘grown up’ for me right now but it’s quite engaging and I wear it now and then just for a change in my fragrance wardrobe.
Opens with aldehydes but not strong enough to be associated with older classic aldehydes i.e. Chanel No. 5 but because of the combination of patchouli, rose and musk, it does have something in common with No. 5 and like No 5 is indeed associated with wealthy blondes in furs. Think Marilyn Monroe, Grace Kelly, or Brigitte Bardot. Sexy, sweet, mature, provocative, but classy; adventurous, mischievous and darling.
This is a sweet fruit wine as it opens. The effervescence of the aldehyde is zesty with a peach bellini and champagne. I can smell the champagne. The peach is a little overwhelming and ‘retro’ but it settles into a rose-patchouli which I like. There’s no other floral note other than the rose but it blends with the peach and the aldehydes. A grapefruit scent is also there but barely as the only citrus note in it. As others have aptly observed the aldehydes settle and they turn somewhat metallic and strangely smell like pocket change! This is like touching quarters dimes and pennies in your fur coat pocket!
Eventually the whole thing dries into a musk. The musk comes in the form of leather and suede, reminiscent of handbags, purses, like putting your nose into the interior of a handbag but with nothing in it but change – nickels quarters dimes pennies. Maybe this blonde got it from her slot machine playing in a casino in Vegas or Atlantic City. Smells of money, handbags, and fur coats, vintage, classic stuff, another era – 1940s 50s
This smells of old fashioned luxury fur coats and mink stoles the kind women of the 1950s would give their kidney for. This is a luxurious perfume and totally evening wear stuff, glamorous, evocative of a vintage but yet modern and wearable. Because there are no top middle or base notes the perfume is linear and simple and easy to wear, soft but enjoyable and long lasting. This is a good intro to the indies for me and the line Etat Libre which I’ll be looking into.
chermanin – :
I am absolutely stunned by this one! It smells 100% like my mothers mink fur coat. Old and musty. I would never buy this unless her coat was nowhere to be found, but even then I would be hesitant to spray this on. It’s definitely not something sexy or alluring just nostalgic as all hell! It isn’t just the musty fur coat smell, there’s more in here but it’s hard to pull apart for me. Someone mentioned a smell of pennies with drops of champagne on top of them? That would be an accurate description of it for sure. Certainly very unique and true to the house of Etat Libre D’Orange. It’s definitely a personal scent that I could only see being used for nostalgic purposes.
ncl891Unlogrere – :
I have smelled this from the sample and It was love at first sniff! It smells like peach sherbet with touch of bright notes that gives a sun shine effect. I find it totally different, uniqe and very attractive.
flq111speagoessenda – :
A sparkling, more feminine version of Lutens Daim Blond. Perfect for warm weather.
elushelsove – :
Vraie Blonde makes me wanna go out a pick up a chick and take her home for some fun. Not just any chick, though – someone like young Cybill Shepherd or Teri Garr…maybe early 90’s Brett Butler. I dunno. Someone intelligent that can loosen up after a few drinks and have a grand ol time.
Vraie Blonde initially smells like a peach bellini drink that has gone flat. Aldehydes give the fragrance a slight metallic feel, which is what smells so sexy to me – some bodies smell (and taste, *wink-wink*) like “pennies”. I definitely smell the dusty fur coat note, suede, and an old-timey, pink rose. I don’t find those notes to be off-putting, nor do they conjure up any ideas or visions like that in the Fragrantica description above – they just give a feeling of anamalic, sweet sexiness. The peach and alcohol notes stay present on my skin, projecting a feeling of woozy, boozy fun. Vraie Blonde could be the promiscuous sister of L’orchidee Terrible from Imaginary Authors (which people seem to love or hate, just like VB).
This doesn’t last very long on my skin, though I do feel like a sex machine when I catch whiffs of it. Look out, ladies. Peachy’s comin’ for ya. 😉
papacet – :
If you don’t go looking for traces of objectionable stuff in perfume I’d wager you’d be less inclined to find such in more unconventional fragrances. I agree there’s something in Vraie Blonde that sticks in my throat a tad, but if you let the whole over-ripe thing settle a bit it develops quite nicely into something wearable.
I do get the bubbly aspect with flecks of peach floating about, but soon afterwards it becomes all milky chocolate. The latter must be the interplay of myrrh and booze (‘liqueur brandy’). It is a very sweet affaire but stops misbehaving just before becoming a nuisance.
Etat Libre’s creations ostensibly are for the more adventurous, even fearless aficionados and Vraie Blonde doesn’t disappoint. Man or woman, as long as you have an open mind, you’re going to enjoy this blonde / blond in the end. Give ’em some love!
genchikobr – :
Opens with a sickly peach, but moves on fast to a more complex scent, which to me actually smells strangely chocolately – the cognac and patchouli perhaps. This phase is interesting, and makes me think of chocolates with champagne and fruit. No real mark of aldehydes for me, or at least not when combined with the pronounced champagne note. There is something quite balanced about it, woodsy, and rich but with the sparky notes holding it back,keeping it from being especially deep. The peach is dominant and builds with the champagne as the scent goes on, with even a touch of fizziness to it that makes me feel nauseous (this is me and peach, not because of the scent per se). Honestly more like a fun blond you pick up in Vegas on a wild night who has a sparkle in her eye and is dressed well but who inevitably throws up on your shoes by the end of the evening. Alcohol too strong for me in this one, with the sticky sweet peach. No suede whatsoever. I think this scent has a lot of potential, but is highly dependent upon taste and chemistry. Pass for me, as it comes off messy overall.
aspyr12 – :
Different fragrance. Starts with chocolate & strong alcohol (almost like sake). Then turns to soft (barely noticeable) citrus & dry fruit smell.
I don’t know what to make of it. There is big contrast between the opening and the dry-down of this fragrance and the alcohol note was very unpleasant for me.
Zorjan – :
Lemon, Almond & very dark chocolaty. The conjak first shows after a while on me. i have a hard time with perfumes with “booze”-scent. at least for now, I´ll have to try this again sometime, in a couple of years.
dronoton – :
I really wanted to like this perfume. I had read good reviews, I had been told it was a good entry to the brand, the notes looked interesting, so I went into testing this very optimistically.
Oh dear. This was really awful on me. So bad I wondered if my sample had turned. It went on in a clash of musty, fusty and dusty notes that actually made me feel slightly unwell. Not a response I have had before. I let it settle for a while, avoiding the site I had sprayed and every 30 minutes tentatively took another sniff. And every single one was unpleasant. After an hour or so the dustiness went leaving me with musty and fusty to play with. Something about it smelled familiar but I was struggling to place it.
Then after about 2.5 hours it dawned on me.
You know synthetic foam sponges, for using in the bath? Well imagine you had one of them, not in a sealed wrapper or anything, unused, and you placed it at the back of a cupboard in the bathroom, and about 6 months later one day you see it and think, I should change my sponge, and take this one off the shelf. When you get in the shower and the hot water hits the sponge you get a horrible old foam + faint mildew musty fusty smell? Well Vraie Blonde is that smell, bottled.
I don’t even know how this is meant to smell, but to me it is horrible. Reasonable longevity though.
Mebcl916InsuffBooni – :
Reminds me of a short lady. She was blonde and she was my boss at one point. She loved a drink or two (meaning she was a real alcoholic) and she was loud and opinionated, putting out terrible bias statements when she was drunk.
I cannot say I liked her an awful lot. Oh, and she also loved dark chocolate: but the cheap and bitter kind.
She had poor taste in humour; or one that I simply did not understand or cared for.
That sums it up. THAT is THIS perfume.
Unpleasant and irrelevant.
Don’t get it. 0/10
kantza – :
A sinister, incongruous formation that comes off as faux-trashy. It’s an unnerving mix of sickly aldehydes with a singular and distinctly horrifying accord peeking through. The accord in question appears to be a combination of rose, myrrh, and peppered peach that places bitter, slightly herbal notes up against something plastic, subtly gourmand, and highly nauseating. The scenario of olfactory equivalence: a trashy off-strip Las Vegas-style lounge show, mid-afternoon, avec screaming hangover. Your table is simultaneously sticky and wet, and the smell of partially digested food is in the air. That’s the headspace this conjures for me.
After a short while, the notes simmer down and you’re left with a peculiarly hollow syrupy scent—as though a key, unifying ingredient was removed. It’s somewhere between waxy candy, culinary spices, 99c store chocolate, vomit, and hairspray at this point, all merged with the scent of condiment-encrusted vinyl. There’s a hint of a synthetic white musk at work as well—just enough to imply a nails-on-chalkboard kind of shrillness—but not enough to truly announce itself as such. It’s here that it threatens to go full-on celebrity scent, but teeters on the edge, clinging instead to its aldehydic strangeness.
I really do love the irreverence of this line, but Vraie Blonde is powerfully disgusting.
boks – :
This smells exactly like a champagne fondant, encased in a layer of dark chocolate and dusted with bitter cocoa powder.
Curious really, since chocolate isn’t actually a note. I imagine it is the suede that creates the illusion of a truffle texture? Towards the end, the lemon note becomes more pronounced, but that dusty truffle note stays throughout.
As we all know, too much of a good thing usually leads to regret. While the chocolate accord is more dry, dark and bitter than the gloopy main note in “Angel”, it still feels heavy, sits quite deep in the nose -which I would say is down to the aldehydes- and could be very cloying if not used sparingly.
dwf781 – :
Vraie Blonde by Etat Libre d`Orange opens with aldehydes, incense, and a unique “champagne” note. I’m quickly reminded of the cigarette smoke and incense-soaked carpet and furniture accord found in Passage d’Enfer by L`Artisan Parfumeur. Is this supposed to evoke cocktail lounges of the past–Chanel No. 5, leather furniture infused with cigarette smoke, and champagne? ELdO knows how to hold us captive with stories, and it is this imagination found behind some of their compositions that keeps me hooked on the brand.
Well blended and interesting enough 3.5/5
goga193 – :
Vraie Blonde is luxury in a bottle. Opening with breathy and effervescent aldehydes and cocoa dust which develops into an accord of Marc de Champagne truffles. The dry down portion continues the chocolaty theme with clever use of patchouli but turns into something which caresses the skin like sable. The breathy airy phase gone you’re left with an intense myrrh, patch, and rum-like accord which comforts and assures you of its effortless but costly seeming character.
Reminds me of shopping in London in winter at one or other of the nicer department stores and going for some champers for afters.
Gorgeous. The longevity and sillage are both an elegant sufficiency.
rodger79 – :
I am in love with Vraie Blonde, and have been wearing it non-stop! When I first put it on, I smelled an “old lady-ish” smell, which I don’t mind. It smelled very much like an old Chanel fragrance – maybe 22, or like an old Guerlain, or like a perfume introduced in the 20s. I like those, so I was ok with it. But it has dried down to smell, with my chemistry, similar to Prada (original) – amber-y. It’s very sexy, but softly demure. This is warm and fuzzy, yet effervescent. It brings to mind an outfit of cream-colored cashmere and suede. An overcast cool day, a bit of champagne before dinner. There is a hint of ripe fruit, maybe cognac. Gorgeous and feminine, yet when rubbed off on my man, just right also… LOVE!!
kinopal – :
Why am I apparently the only person in the universe to smell Angel in Etat Libre d’Orange Vraie Blonde? Honestly, this seems so obviously to me to be a parody of the classic Thierry Mugler perfume for vraies blondes such as Jerry Hall that I cannot believe that no one else has mentioned it. Musky chocolate patchouli with fruit? Here it is peach, which along with the musky patchouli reminds me in wafts of a cross between Badgley Mischka and Couture, its flanker.
To my nose, the alleged aldehydes in this composition are as far from Chanel No 5 as they could possibly be, and I cannot imagine any amateur of that classic taking to this one. This creation is truly and only for those who like Angelesque concoctions: sweet, not flowery, musky, patchouli, chocolate–though it is not listed among the notes, the scent of chocolate or cocoa here is unmistakeable to my nose.
Vraie Blonde has garnered lots of praise, but it really does not strike me as earth-shatteringly original at all. What am I missing?
ser90162654 – :
A gorgeous, sweetened-up powdery, cocoa dusted version of Chanel’s Eau Premiere crossed with the effervescent, warm and fuzzy Chanel No.22. This is the cashmere scarf and suede gloves of the ELDO range with good sillage and longevity. I find this one of the easier ELDO’s to wear alongside Dont Get Me Wrong.
Now, to get to the dirty part! Yes, there is something a bit crude in here too. I dont really notice it until about an hour in, and I really had my nose on my wrist to find it. Its a slightly off-kilter note that has a vague reference to Secretions Magnifiques. Think Colonel Sanders and his famous saying about how good his chicken is… 😉 It’s an intimate but clean note that might lead some to think of a womans delicates. It doesnt take over the fragrance *thankfully* and while its not skanky, it is a bit primal. I dont get anything fecal or urinous at all though.
kasakovvlad – :
I’ve mentioned before that Etat Libre d’Orange’s schtick is easy to dispense with because it’s so ridiculous. I love the perfume that ELDO make, and I support the notion that perfumery needs to be shaken up. The grade-school boyishness, though, is self-defeating. The first thing I do with a bottle from ELDO is to put away the little text/illustration insert that “explains” the perfume. ‘Is she a real blond? Only nudity will reveal the truth.’ It’s what would come out of creative writing class for horny 13 year-old boys.
But the perfume!
Vraie Blonde is often compared to Chanel 5 and it should be. Not for any similarity of scent, but for the fact that they are similarly abstract. Vraie Blonde is a myrrh fragrance in the way that Chanel 5 is a floral fragrance. It doesn’t smell like any one thing but experiencing it, I catch images of butter cookies, peach skin, muscat grapes, porridge, closets, make-up, and baby skin. It’s all over the map in the best sense.
Vraie Blonde doesn’t smell like anything else I’ve smelled. It doesn’t suggest or allude to any other scent. It’s a fairly new territory for me and gives me a new olfactory image to attach meaning, emotion, value to.
Let me step away from the perfume itself for a moment. This experience of encountering the new and assimilating it by attaching concepts and meanings to it is how I (we) deal with the unknown. The unknown is necessarily abstract because I can’t perceive it. In identifying something new, I categorize it, attach descriptors to it, compare it to other ideas and experiences and eventually start to get a handle on it. I name it. To some degree, this is what I do with all perfumes, or more broadly, with all scents. For all my talk, there is no proper language to scent because, other than for perfumers, the olfactory is a read-only medium. It’s the nature of the biz, man. Here is my rationale for seeing all perfumery as abstract by definition.
Back to Vraie Blonde. It’s just lovely. It’s blanketing and dense. Though others describe it as bubbly and champagne-like, the classic aldehydic descriptors, I find it quite the opposite. It’s enveloping. It draws you into it. It’s seductive. It reminds me in feeling, if not in scent, of Robert Piguet’s Baghari, another smoldering aldehydic perfume. Vraie Blonde sits at the exact point between activity and passivity and waits for you to tip it one way or the other.
from scent hurdle.com
PrIzRaK9706 – :
What a delightful, feminine and elegant scent. I can see from the below reviews, that it doesn’t seem to work on everybody’s chemistry – but luckily it did on mine! For me, this is definitely a blonde hollywood starlet dressed in satin with a mink throw, sipping on fizzy champagne. Sexy with a twist of french refinement. Cashmere and pearls, the star of the show. A burst of aldeydes, champagne notes and rose dries down to a fizzy, vanilla, patchouli and myrr base. Aldeydes are normally something I steer clear of, but this one didn’t nauseate me. This was Tom Ford’s Violet Blonde (?a not so subtle take off) versus Chanel no.5 with a hint of Chanel beige thrown in.
Igorbalan_86 – :
pensavo di essere l’unico a non aver gradito questo profumo, ma vedo che mi sbagliavo. appena provato, ho sentito l’odore di vomito e di urina. credevo di essere io difettoso, invece capisco che il profumo vuole proprio essere così.
Rodeon – :
Believe it or not, but I find this one more horrible and disgusting than Sécrétions Magnifiques. True Story.
coldlord – :
I tried it on paper: no urine, and above all, do not understand the comments, if you talk to urine or fecal odor.
You mean it’s bad ok, but you can figure out which hole to get this bad smell, the urine did not know …
hehe
I have to try on the skin at all, because on paper this fragrance speaks of aldehydes, of myrrh, of champagne. smells like butter and stays without being brash like a pleasant fragrance.
Xeroxzhqsp – :
OK I sprayed this one by accident on my wrist today (wanted to test Putain des Palaces). I have never ever smelled something like this before. I mean sometimes you test something and you simple don`t like it as it reminds you of old people, somebody you don`t like, it might be too sweet or simply too fresh. –> this one smells like straight cat`s anus. I felt like 1000 cats urinated on me while they were humping. After 1 hour it started to smell like pure male sweat. Sorry for my crude description, but this is the only way to put this smell into words. I take my hat off to the person who can wear this one! … gosh… buuuuhhh
yah466speagoessenda – :
The one and only fecal-chocolate-aldehyde. Sometimes when I clean up my cats’ litter boxes I imagine their poop is chocolate to prevent from getting sick. This is what Vraie Blonde reminds me of.
That being said, I do admire its originality, and it probably smells better on other people than it does on me.
elagin82 – :
What I got in the first stage was white chocolate and dried fruit that’s been sitting out in the sun for too long. After that goes away, it becomes nicer, and rather tasteful, with a soft scent of suede, champagne, and very dry hay….yes, a heap of hay. However, the sweet dried fruit and white chocolate peeps out from time to time, making it a bit tacky.
It is a very modern perfume that stays close to the skin, and I think the aldehydes or suede, or whatever I’m smelling, makes it kind of sexy, because someone smelling you might think it’s the natural smell of you….your body, your hair, your essence. I keep thinking of a woman’s skin and neck when her hair is lifted and you sniff under that curtain of hair.
This perfume practically falls off my skin….almost gone in 90 minutes, and I even applied unscented lotion first. I think while this is not my style at all, it would be perfect for certain people…probably blondes, right?
chirik88 – :
Smells like someone has eaten too many sweets, candies… and than vomited. Can’t believe that this is all I get from it but… that’s it.
VELDER – :
This is one of my favourites, but has little in common with the wood and iris I usually gravitate toward. I find this an unabashedly sexy perfume, but without being too overt (it is not loud). Not “wild night out” but perfect for that mythic 3rd date… It evokes a combination of overripe fruit (early morning fruit market in a hot, humid climate, lots of sweaty bodies – Tahiti perhaps?) and a yeasty, fresh baked bread accord (French baguette – yes, definitely French Polynesia or perhaps Martinique). It stays close to my skin, but lasts for hours. Tragically, I’m running out and can’t get it anywhere; perhaps cause for a trip to Paris?
IVAN-MAN – :
Vrai Blonde is initially sparkly and fizzy (the liqueur brandy of champagne note is lovely!)then turns into a vampy mix of sweet notes and aldehyde. I was worried that Vrai Blonde was going to turn earthy like Jasmin & Cigarettes does, but thankfully this remains an elegant, slightly mature fragrance.
ЯСЯ94 – :
I love the peachy champagne opening. It has a very fizzy and lighthearted feel about it. I would describe this perfume as being fun, bubbly and flirty but still very ladylike.
Though this scent is never overpowering I could smell this on me all day long. Putting this one on my wish list.
pachita – :
I love this on paper, for its cold creaminess and translucent beauty. The peaches, white flowers and wisely used aldehydes create a feminine, angelic aura of attractive fragility. It’s quite a shy, delicate beauty, this lady.
Testing in on my skin however, revealed perhaps a bit more of Vraie Blonde than I expected or wanted to smell. A somewhat vulgar undertone that’s reminiscent of Secretions Magnifiques can be felt upclose, near the skin. It is however very vague and not really unpleasant and you cannot detect it from a distance. I guess I must’ve caught a waft of the good lady’s underwear. 🙂
The lasting power and especially the sillage are very good.
This classy blonde dressed impecably has a bit of toilet paper stuck in one of her heels.
dinamik – :
Etat Libre D’Orange is a house which fascinates me yet none of their perfumes fascinates me enough to actually wear something created by them.
Vraie Blonde opened simply delightful to my nose. It’s a bit hard to understand what exactly I am feeling note wise, but I should say – it’s good. It’s shy, innocent, but still sexy and seductive. Like a playful kitty with sharp claws. The most noticable notes though on my skin at the opening are sweet champagne and peach combo soon followed by smooth suede.
The heart part goes on being a fantastic expierence to my nose. I still feel loads of peach and suede, weirdly aldehydes are nowhere to be seen and pepper on my skin doesn’t appear either. At this point there are tiny bits of rose, but it’s almost unnoticable. It’s weird.
The drydown is powdery suede with sweet bits of fruity goodness. First ELdO I can wear. Wonderful.
Vraie Blonde is everything I expected SL Daim Blond to be and even more. On my wishlist it goes.
tomek700 – :
Sexy, but in a playful way. This one is a wink and smile. I get a little chocolate vibe in the background to go with the bubbly here. I really love that.
ECicqQ – :
In my search for a signature scent that nobody of my aquaintances wears, I put my nose on the ELd’O creations. Unusual creations with a story behind each of them. I’m a brunette and I don’t feel completely confident with this VB, but I must admit it is a bright and happy parfume. Original and unusual, it reminds me of the baking soda effect I have already appreciated in Marescialla by Santa maria novella. Is this baking soda the champagne I cannot perceive?
oleg-21 – :
It’s beautiful, so smooth and silky… like Etat Libre d`Orange were looking through a distorted mirror when writing their description of a provocative, slightly tacky fragrance.
It makes me think more of beauty than sex. I’m perfectly fine with the picture of the naked woman but in my version she’s classy, the bed has silk sheets and the room is bathed in soft light.
It starts peachy aldehydic and slowly builds up to a more complex heart. It feels like a pillowy veil, I can pick out the single notes when I’m paying attention but it’s so well blended that I don’t really want to. Later the suede gets in and the myrrh becomes more distinct. Vraie Blonde is going strong for up to 14 hours and even though it has lost most of its complexity by then, it carries its subtle tail over into the next day.
I wish I could wear this but it’s irritating my skin. No real rash but a bad itch and it makes me a little dizzy. Don’t buy without trying!
Update:
At first I was a little disappointed that Vraie Blonde wasn’t for me but I’ve found a hugely satisfying replacement in Brecourt’s Ambre Noir. Notewise they have very little in common – actually the myrrh is pretty much it – but both convey the same spirit: smooth, balmy, rich, slightly mysterious.
wqop – :
I was surprised to find that Vraie Blonde is crisp and tasteful, and not at all loud, sweet, animalic, discordant, or any of the other things that I had feared. It starts out with a bubbly, tingly caress of sharp citrusy aldehydes and enough pepper to actually smell, then gradually softens into a fluffy, soft blanket of minimal sweetness created mostly by the basic fabric of myrrh and white musk, but shot through with occasional accents of fruit and patchouli.
As it settles down into a buttery suede sweetened by the patchouli and a little bit of vanilla, it retains its light touch, tiptoeing over the skin rather than digging its claws in. Sillage is moderate at all times. By the time 12 hours have passed, it has dried down to an ambrette-like musk.
Never harsh or overbearing, VB is tasteful, comfortable, and amazingly easy to wear. I’m glad I have a large sample because I’m sure I’ll pull it out and wear it from time to time.
Listener199220 – :
Another one of Etat Libre d’Orange creations I have fallen in love with.
I was a bit sceptical about it, although it features some of my favourite notes. My skin likes aldehydes, rose and suede. But thn again, patchouli and myrrh were never my best friends, so all in all, the outcome was quite unexpected.
Vraie Blonde for me smells a bit like candy. A rose candy. Sweet, slightly floral, peachy, delicate. Fun. Romantic. A bit cheeky. At first it made me think of a girl chewing a bubble gum pop art style. For me it is Marilyn Monroe from Andy Warhol’s famous posters. Feminine, but a bit different.
I yet have to sample it globally on my skin and waer it on different occasions to see whether my one spritz impressions will not change, for now I find it quite a safe fragrance for daily wear.
Deroxbkctk – :
Wow! I ordered some samples and they arrived today and this was by far the standout. Due to the so-so reviews I nearly didnt order it well thank goodness i did at the last minute!!!! This is absolutely stunning! I have absolutely no idea what some people who say things like it smells like sweat are smelling?! I couldnt wait to review this. They say it was made with Marilyn Monroe in mind and this is exactly what you would imagine her wearing. It is classy, feminine and sexy. Dry down is a bit fizzy, but so beautiful and amazing staying power. I cannot believe the negative reviews, please give it a try girls you’ll love it!
dsa999 – :
I have a strange relation to this scent.
It smells absolutely stunning, rich, feminine, sensual and vaguely vintage on a dance teacher I know.
She’s a fierceful tall red-headed and weirdly elegant woman.
It is also very longlasting with a great sillage.
On me it smelt boring, cold and too frizzy one day, then another it smelt so better I just wanted to buy it (and didn’t), then another day smelt chemical, bubblygummy and cheap. Who knows? No purchase was a good choice.
linaice – :
Unfortunately, on my skin it developed the smell of old sweat. Nauseating, really. I wasn’t able to detect a single one of the notes (which sounded delicious to me). To call it a dissapointment would be flattery. It’s essential to try it first, I think. Too bad, I didn’t ;).
mezzo – :
Nothing special, just an everyday fragrance you could get everywhere, if it isn’t by the name and brand that sells it …
aduard6642 – :
I have been inspired by Annelie’s (rebella) article on on this fragrance house.
I am always in search of a new fragrance which can combine the ying & yang of both sexes. I have found it with ELd’O.
Vrai Blond opens up strongly with Aldehyde accords but quickly softens. After 30 minutes, I had a craving for a Bellini (champagne w/peach nectar).
The rose notes are subtle as the pepper, patchouli and suede come to play.
On my skin (male), it mellows out to a beautiful peppery, suede fragrance.
An image of a beautiful blond Hollywood legend waking up in white Egyptian cotton sheets is what i get from this fragrance. This is a fragrance to experience.
mariasemyonova17 – :
I liked it as I like the smell of fruit juice, but don’t think I would wear it, a bit too sweet. It is almost the same for me as Serge Lutens ‘Daim Blond’, sweet and crisp only muted on some notes, i’m guessing it can be suede, but when I tried it, SL’s perfume came immediately to my mind
edzia1986 – :
Nice enough, dreamlike scent, hillarious yet heatrbreaking ,has no real pay off but is a modern meditation on aldhydes and rose in a juicy champagne glass! A Votre!
NLZ – :
After having kind of a bad experience with Rien I was a bit afraid of testing this, but I shouldn´t have been that. This is a luxurios, ladylike and bubbly perfume. It make me think of the finest champagne, pearl necklases and satin highhealed shoes. More of a Grace Kelly-kind of blonde than a Marilyn Monroe, more classy than sexy I think. If I was invited to the Nobeldinner I might wear this, but since I´m not maybe I could wear it at my “grandsons” 1:st birthday coming up this next weekend? :)It is discrete enough not to offend anyone. It smells rich. I really, really like this one.
Could recommend it to almost anyone, cause it is so personal and nice in the same way.
But I think you should test it before you buy, I strongly suspect Etat Libre d’Orange perfumes have a lot with skinchemistry and personal preferenses to do.
Katerinka-K – :
Absolutely awful, I couldn’t get this one off fast enough. On my skin it turne