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post #1 of 19
10/14/07 at 5:02pm
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how "excited" are you about this? what olfactive notes would honor best the stunning homoerotic and S&M world of Tom of Finland?

I 'm very curious about it and hope this fragrance rendition will be better than Putain des Palaces/Hotel Slut wich didn 't strike me as "call girl" at all. too spicy for a high-class escort, the leather and cosmetic notes, rice powder and lipstick weren 't very beautiful, I wanted the most sophisticated sexual perfume, not some spiced leathery pot-pourri.
Secretions Magnifiques also disappointed me, even though it 's been praised by Luca Turin over the discovery of some "molecule" (if you 're into molecules and very technical olfactory stuff you might find it "interesting" lol) this fragrance stinks and it 's not even sexual and raunchy, it 's just an olfactory "exercice de style".
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post #2 of 19
10/14/07 at 5:06pm
Can you post a link or something where we can find out about this one? Sounds like fun.
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post #3 of 19
10/14/07 at 5:11pm
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here 's where I got the information, but we hardly know anything right now, all we can do is speculate and "fantasize" lol

http://www.mimifroufrou.com/scenteds...nd_fragra.html
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post #4 of 19
10/14/07 at 6:58pm
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Originally Posted by Débauches Olfactives View Post

here 's where I got the information, but we hardly know anything right now, all we can do is speculate and "fantasize" lol

http://www.mimifroufrou.com/scenteds...nd_fragra.html

How could it ever smell like what we really fantasize about?
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post #5 of 19
10/14/07 at 8:37pm
Electric Light Orchestra? Sorry--just realized you meant Etat Libre d'Orange--for a very marginal niche/novelty house, not sure that everyone would get the ELO reference--or is it just me?
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post #6 of 19
10/14/07 at 10:19pm
[quote=Débauches Olfactives;1077819]what olfactive notes would honor best the stunning homoerotic and S&M world of Tom of Finland?[quote]

Débauches Olfactives, that name gets me hot.

A few of the notes:

civet
castoreum
costus roots
ambrette seeds
ambergris
musks
black caraway
labdanum
patchouli
indolic florals
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post #7 of 19
10/14/07 at 10:30pm
http://community.basenotes.net/showthread.php?t=200402


And paintrman, no, I haven`t smelled that Max Joacim scent. And never will.
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post #8 of 19
10/15/07 at 7:14am
Pigeon, are they just terrible? I have written him before and he was very kind. However, I have never smelled any of his perfumes.
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post #9 of 19
10/15/07 at 7:44am
Top Notes:
Amyl Nitrate, Cigar Smoke, BO/Cumin

Middle Notes:
Leather, Crisco, Latex

Base Notes (and boy we do mean Base here)
Leather, Sweat, and (ummm) Spunk
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post #10 of 19
10/15/07 at 7:50am
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Originally Posted by rentboy View Post

Top Notes:
Amyl Nitrate, Cigar Smoke, BO/Cumin

Middle Notes:
Leather, Crisco, Latex

Base Notes (and boy we do mean Base here)
Leather, Sweat, and (ummm) Spunk

LOL

I don't know about that amyl nitrate top note rentboy...that stuff gives me a headache. Not that I've ever...

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post #11 of 19
10/15/07 at 7:52am
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Originally Posted by rentboy View Post

Top Notes:
Amyl Nitrate, Cigar Smoke, BO/Cumin

Middle Notes:
Leather, Crisco, Latex

Base Notes (and boy we do mean Base here)
Leather, Sweat, and (ummm) Spunk

I always thought that the type of men Tom of Finland drew went to places that had a sign at the door stating: No Fragrances Allowed.
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post #12 of 19
10/15/07 at 9:39am
The Etat Libre website says it's coming out (as it were) on Feb 1 2008.

http://www.etatlibredorange.com/

I found Tom of Finland reinterpreted as a classic french copper print toile to be the wickedest decorating idea of the decade, but I'm clearly not a well woman.

Must sniff this, but I wouldn't buy blindfolded without a safe word.
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post #13 of 19
10/15/07 at 4:55pm
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Originally Posted by rentboy View Post

Top Notes:
Amyl Nitrate, Cigar Smoke, BO/Cumin

Middle Notes:
Leather, Crisco, Latex

Base Notes (and boy we do mean Base here)
Leather, Sweat, and (ummm) Spunk

{gulp} I just threw up in my mouth a little bit...
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post #14 of 19
10/15/07 at 5:57pm
Ok, boys. It's a reason to live through the winter. We've gotta see what this one smells like!
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post #15 of 19
10/15/07 at 11:16pm
Ok boys and girls prepare to be thoroughly jealous. It so happens I went to the artists' reception for the opening of the TOF art fair this year (at which my friend Palanca was honored with a special award). I espied some 5 -10 ml spray vials displayed on a silver tray and they turned out to have Givaudan labels, they were trial samples for the Tom of Finland scent. Durk Dehner said I could take away whatever dupes there were from a box full of these small atomizers so I ended up with:

Tom's Passion 54a and b which is kind of vaguely in the line of himalaya/bois de sepia, with latex?

Tuoco a sort of leather n latex mix I think

Latex - self explanatory

Bel Hom - the most interesting of the ones I was able to get sort of a bracing minty leather that morphs to. .. well I will have to test it again, cause I forget right now but it has some evolution which I can tell you a bit about later

some vials I didn't get my hands on included:

My Vetiver (named after 'My Hustler' perhaps?)
Steamy Sweat
and. . . .

well. .. .

the last one is, I was told, the one they picked, and I suppose it would be terribly indiscreet of me to name it. . .

hehe

Palanca and I camped out on this couch and people kept saying how cute we looked in our cozy spot together and about 10 different people took pictures of us, here is one!

(I was wearing Cuir Mauresque with Tar incidentally...)
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post #16 of 19
10/15/07 at 11:31pm
here is the picture m m m m didnt go through last time
LL
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post #17 of 19
10/15/07 at 11:51pm
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Originally Posted by rentboy View Post

Top Notes:
Amyl Nitrate, Cigar Smoke, BO/Cumin

Middle Notes:
Leather, Crisco, Latex

Base Notes (and boy we do mean Base here)
Leather, Sweat, and (ummm) Spunk

LOL yummyyy
that could be the perfect perfume for me when i'm going "hunting"...
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Originally Posted by Kyra View Post

The Etat Libre website says it's coming out (as it were) on Feb 1 2008.

http://www.etatlibredorange.com/

I found Tom of Finland reinterpreted as a classic french copper print toile to be the wickedest decorating idea of the decade, but I'm clearly not a well woman.

Must sniff this, but I wouldn't buy blindfolded without a safe word.

I like some ELO perfumes:
Secretion Magnifiques is an olfatory travel, but still that feminine touch, can be weared but just for fun.
Vierges et Toreros s lovely.
I would love that this one finished the "unisex range".
We want something masculine, please!.
I'm going to mail them and see if I can get some info...
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post #18 of 19
10/16/07 at 7:33am
I thought Eau du Coq was out already !

thanks for the news!
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post #19 of 19
10/18/07 at 11:50pm
On excluisve: (highly synthetic as usual on this fab company).
Perfumer: Antoine lie.
ELDO just closed the agreement for the launch of the perfume with the Tom of Finland Foundation in L.a.
It's going to be quite masculine, leathery and very very metallic .
Countains:Green notes, blood note, metal notes, vinyl notes, chrome metal notes.
I can't say no more just now.
That one is going to be damm good. Hihi...
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