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Antoine Maisondieu
Perfumer named by Etat Libre d'Orange in the text for Fat Electrician, whose vetiver he wanted "white, metallic, silvery", at once resinous and gourmand.
Career and creations
At Etat Libre d'Orange, every fragrance starts from a story, and the one behind Fat Electrician is among the most unusual: the portrait of a former "Midnight Cowboy" whose beauty has burnt out, now an electrician in his New Jersey house. To celebrate this fallen beauty, the house wanted a splendid vetiver, an ode to vintage eroticism.
Antoine Maisondieu wanted it white, metallic and silvery, like the ancestral green of olive leaves, but also sweet, regressive and addictive, like chestnut cream. Vetiver and cedarwood form its heart, after an opening of pepper and elemi; vanilla pod, opoponax and myrrh make up the base. Extremely concentrated, resinous and raw, the fragrance was meant to express a contrasted sensuality because, the house says, all beauty carries within it the sign of its end.
Etat Libre d'Orange publishes no further information about his career: his training and the fragrance company he works for are not disclosed.
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