Etat Libre D'Orange Marquis De Sade Attaquer Le Soleil Eau De Parfum Spray Unisex 100 ml 3.38 fl oz

To attack the sun, to drive it from the universe, to create perpetual darkness – what an outrageous proposition! But Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade, was an outrageous man. He took on many roles: writer, revolutionary, philosopher, and libertine. He disdained the social norms and he demanded unrestrained freedom. He questioned every assumption about love, beauty, and even violence, and he ignored the taboos. He wanted to attack the sun and ignite the world, liberate us from our preconceptions, and break down the barriers which keep us from accepting our own desires. This is why Etat Libre d’Orange has chosen to celebrate a man who celebrated extremes. We have invited the Marquis de Sade to join our family of outrageous perfumes. He has accepted with pleasure, and maybe a little pain.

Etat Libre d’Orange and the Marquis de Sade. It’s a marriage made in heaven, or possibly in hell.  Either way, it works. Together, we launch an assault on the sun. To read Sade is to take a risk. One is suddenly forced to face one’s self, exposed. It’s a wonderful risk to take if you want to plunge yourself into the heart and the body of humanity. Because Sade liberates. He pushes us to imagine and desire, far beyond the boundaries which saturate our perspective.

"As a creator of perfume, how could I open my perspective, imagine beyond my limitations? A very personal question. The cistus! One of my paradoxes. One of my gray areas. I have always recoiled from the cistus, I’ve avoided it or hidden it under thick layers of vanilla and amber as a way of escaping it. This is why I have made myself confront a radical formula: the cistus, exposed, and in all its states. My dear Marquis: here’s to your suns, to our volcanoes!" — Quentin Bisch, perfumer   

From the depths of his prisons, Sade constantly reminded his contemporaries, and all men, of his injunction to go beyond compromise, to overcome conformity, and to always put freedom first. To be yourself, without suffering the judgment of others; to be yourself and to live as you want to live... "All human happiness is in the imagination," Sade reminds us. Sade was the freest man who ever lived. Sade is desire and passion, strength and tenderness, provocation and sensuality. His scent is the same: innately volcanic. Like his perfume, Sade cannot be banished, reduced to silence, or made to disappear. He is there, always there: unforgettable. This is an eternal fragrance that endures just as his thought endures, beyond time.

Olfactory pyramid: 

Top Notes: Bergamot

Heart Notes: Juniper, Moss

Base notes: Cedar, Cistus, Fir Balsam, Musk, Pine

Directions: For long-lasting effects, fragrance should be applied to the body`s pulse points. These include the wrist, behind the ear, the crease of your arm and knee, and the base of your throat. Pulse points give off more body heat as this is where blood vessels are closest to the skin.

Ingredients: ALCOHOL DENAT., PARFUM (FRAGRANCE), AQUA (WATER), LIMONENE, ISOEUGENOL, EUGENOL, GERANIOL, LINALOOL.