


I think - I hope - it's a well-constructed contemporary work, a California aesthetic, a David Hockney or even Ed Ruscha painting (quintessential Los Angeles painters) in scent. I don't think it's one of the great immortal scents blah blah. But setting all that aside, simply as a fragrance, I'm glad you like it. I suppose what we attempted was portraiture, and you'd have to know the fictional character to know whether we succeeded there. That angle is a reflection of the character. On the other hand the mint angle - which Caroline constructed from several materials - was very important to me, and not because there's mint in Anne's (my fictional character's) garden in the Hollywood Hills. Auch hier finden wir das Unerwartete, das dem Geist von Etat Libre d'Orange.

"Sharp mint with a soapiness" - I never thought of it in soap terms at all. Die englische Umschreibung lautet Possibility in the blue Air, um daran zu erinnern, dass dieses Parfm den Geist der Hgel von Los Angeles einfngt, einer Stadt, in der unter einem blauen Himmel mit groer Entschlossenheit und Ausdauer alles mglich ist. Caroline and I were focused on the overall aspects of the scent, and we rarely talked for more than a few seconds about any particular aspect. Thanks for posting about "You." It's funny, everything can be made complicated or be reduced. If you need to know what it’s made of, don’t wear it You is not for you)." (The raw materials are completely irrelevant. It is LA, whatever that means, though in part it means the norms a scent would follow in a meeting at one of the agencies near Wilshire, at a studio, at a lunch in Bel Air or dinner off Beverly Drive. Caroline and I discussed this at each step during the creation process. It is, on the other hand, stylistically and in its technical construction what a Los Angeles woman would wear in my view. "When Etienne de Swardt approached me about creative directing a fragrance whose “You Or Someone Like You is not the ‘scent of LA’ or ‘the smell of the Hollywood Hills captured.’ It is not one of those olfactory synecdoches. Chandler Burr worked in collaboration with Creative Director Etienne de Swardt, and perfumer Caroline Sabas. woman smell like? In 2009, perfume critic and author Chandler Burr wrote a novel, “You or Someone Like You”,whose female protagonist is the muse for a new fragrance from Etat Libre D’Orange.
