TOP NOTES: Green tangerine
HEART NOTES: Vanilla and Orchid Accords, Plum, Incense
BASE NOTES: Musk, Sandalwood, Amberwood
A few years ago I went to the movies to celebrate my daughter's birthday with her friends. We were supposed to see a crappy movie and eat a ton of popcorn..(Side note: Does anyone really want to be that handsome dad who gives in to everything?). I like watching commercials and trailers, which I often find more interesting than the movie itself. You get a sense of the zeitgeist, you can see other movies faster without having to watch them in their entirety. That day I saw the trailer for a documentary about singer Nina Simone, What Happened to Miss Simone? The clip started with the voice of Lisa Simone, her daughter, talking about her mother. « My mother? She was an anomaly, she was lovely, she was brilliant », while the screen showed pictures of Nina Simone, vacillating between joy and pain, the price of extreme talent. And so, despite the noise of the teenagers next to me and their persistent munching on popcorn, I suddenly had a dramatic encounter with that word Anomaly. And I was struck by the impression that I was hearing that perfect expression of agony that can accompany talent. The word left a mark in my head. And the very next day I reserved the name Anomaly for Etat Libre d'Orange. I was certain of its power and had to do something about it. At about the same time, I was considering a tribute to Stanley Kubrick on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of 2001 A Space Odyssey. Like many others, I was fascinated by HAL 9000 and the tragic computer failure that decimated the entire crew in space. That, too, was an anomaly. Months passed, then years, and I did absolutely nothing with THAT word. But the creative impulse remained, so I finally met with Daniela Andrier from Givaudan with Anomaly in mind. I talked to her about the dangers of any alliance between man and machine, about David Bowman the astronaut as a perfumer, Hal 9000 as Carto Trop turned out to be good, and Daniela saved me with her enormous talent
But I was wrong about Anomaly, because emotions can't be expressed in one word. The emotion was a combination of two other elements in a sentence I heard in the trailer she which feminizes her, and the past [which gives it a tragic expression]. That's what I fell in love with, the whole phrase ::"She was an Anomaly." It took me three years to figure out what was missing in the singularity, the notion of someone who was an aberration. I needed this perfume.
ALCOHOL DENAT., PARFUM (FRAGRANCE), AQUA (WATER), ETHYLHEXYL METHOXYCINNAMATE, BUTYL METHOXYDIBENZOYLMETHANE, ETHYLHEXYL, SALICYLATE, D-LIMONENE, APLHA-ISOMETHYL IONONE
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