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Secretions Magnifiques by Etat Libre d'Orange

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This 2006 release by Etat Libre d'Orange is only incendiary because what other house would financially back a "fragrance" that supposedly mimics the aroma of what a human torso secretes?

They get props for that.......and absolutely nothing else. I understand that there is a very small group of people who genuinely find arousal or some other form of pleasure as a result of the unpleasant odors that emanate from the human body. I have nothing to say to that except my happiness that none of them contribute to an aroma blog.

I find Secretions to be a gag-reflex conglomeration of stale body sweat and dried blood. It is vile and I would surely get as far away from someone as I could who smelled remotely similar. There's no more reviewing of this abomination. It smells very unpleasant...because it is.

It takes a large set of balls to put $$$ behind a sure-fire loser like this. It must be nice to have $$$ to burn.
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  1. SugandarajaJune 9, 2010 at 10:26 PM

    This is about the second worst-smelling fragrance I've experienced. The weird part? Some people say this smells like a nice floral. I don't get that...

    The first worst would be Musk Gazelle, which smells like dead raccoon. That's not an exaggeration, either, as I smelled Musk Gazelle first, then was later walking through the woods only to be hit with that smell and, low and behold, a fuzzy little corpse was "perfuming" the air just so.

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  2. AromiEroticiJune 9, 2010 at 10:56 PM

    No question this is horrid man. How anyone can process smelling this into something pleasurable is beyond me.

    I think I still have a tiny amount left of musk gazelle somewhere. I remember it being over the top barnyard....and quite possibly worse....lol

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  3. AnonymousJune 10, 2010 at 9:04 AM

    Does anyone actually wear SM ?

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  4. AromiEroticiJune 10, 2010 at 10:46 AM

    Mimi.....I can only pray the answer to that is NO !!!!!

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  5. SugandarajaJune 10, 2010 at 11:10 AM

    The answer is yes! Disturbingly enough, there are a couple of guys ( and I think one woman? ) on Basenotes who own full bottles of this and wear it regularly. Luca Turin gives it five stars, if I remember.

    I honestly wouldn't wear something that 90% of people describe as the worst smelling fragrance ever, but I suppose given my mother's descriptions of two of my favorites as "used kitty litter" ( Caron's Acaciosa ) and "room-spray and bed-pans" ( Neil Morris' Gandhara ), I'm in no place to criticize!

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  6. AnonymousJune 16, 2010 at 6:43 PM

    You know, I keep forgetting to buy a damned sample from Luckyscent. Darn it- I will get to it one day soon....

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