The Afternoon of a Faun Etat Libre d'Orange for women and men

If you are looking for something cozy herbal for warm summer/spring/fall evenings, this may be the one. Immortelle is a bigger note here, it feels like dusty dry yellow flower herbs. Moss is pretty nice and balanced + a hint of rose in the background. Also, it feels somewhat like green tea. So overall it is good herbal fragrance, does not last very long but fine enough.

Someone said that Immortelle smells like urine but it is far from the truth, however, this fragrance is not for everyone. the immortelle is not everyone's pleaser! Leans masculine.

The most similar and familiar for me is VIII Rococo Immortelle Clive Christian

Dusty wine-y rose, salty spicy immortelle and pungent myrrh in a mossy chypre context. It has a neo-retro feel to it.

I like how it reminds me of sweet red vermouth garnished with a green olive.

This is definitely something memorable! The rose is green and soapy, and it pairs so nicely with the sweet and green immortelle! There is something a little salty, musky as well, but in the best way possible! I picture an ancient Olympic athlete just finishing their sport and being crowned laurels as their partner runs to hug them. This is romantic, memorable, and very unique!

Also, the inspiration behind it, that being Nijinsky dancing The Afternoon of a Faun, makes it all the better. You can tell there is an immense passion behind this perfume, and it makes it all the more romantic!

This is an untold, enchanted fairy tale in a bottle—a magical journey into a mossy, enchanted forest at the heart of which one finds an elegant, enchanted rose. An apothecary’s masterpiece—a potion of earth, wind, air, and fire, flora and fauna, light and darkness, all in harmonious coexistence, altogether mesmerizing. The Afternoon of a Fawn is like nothing else I’ve encountered thus far in my journey as a collector—truly something special one can only appreciate and comprehend by experiencing directly and intimately. I’ll keep this mage’s masterful concoction high on a shelf, sheltered from the light, for a time when something special is required.

Total perfection and so well blended—initial impression is forest floor, fallen and nearly decomposing leaves with a syrupy yet dry immortelle. The rose is a shapeshifter and on warm days comes forward more strongly but usually on my skin is a supporting player. The impression is at once melancholic, wild, playful, sexy. A spray or two is fine for office-esque environments or douse yourself and it’s great for dancing or other faun activitities.

What a journey! Sadly immortelle registers as celery, or sometimes celery with maple syrup, to my brain. The opening of this was ALL celery. As it dried though it became all about the rose and oak moss, and felt really beautiful and earthy and elegant. Unfortunately after an hour or two oops the celery is back and now I smell like soup.

As far as wearing this scent, I don’t think I can. But judging it as an olfactory piece of art, I see it! The feminine rose and oak moss combination is a couple of beautiful nymphs just minding their business. Then uh oh here comes the little celery faun and he’s gonna make us all eat his soup :(

I don't get it; some reviews don't even mention the existence of a rose. This is a rose perfume from top to bottom.
Fresh rose, some Immortal, some bergamote, that's what I get mainly. Minimal sweetness. Minimal powderyness. Feminine leaning and mature(woman, 30y.o+ who got her sh!t together), imo. Can be easily somebody's signature scent. All year round scent.
Nice, but not for me.

reminds me of frank ocean lol

Heavy rose soap.

This is beauty. Immortelle is used brilliantly here and the use is just appropriate, the composition is is very well thought of. it is unique and head turning (in the best way possible). It does invoke a fougere like quality but a sharp one. its polished but also the texture is transparent and direct. Main players here are immortelle and resins with a hint of oakmoss. cinnamon might me the one acting in the background giving it a the edge. suede is also faintly noticeable but not particularly evident. all in all try before buying. its amazing but not for everyone.
Underrated to say the least IMHO.

What an interesting and fantastic fragrance! It is so addictive! I could not quite put my fingers on it, it smelt so familiar in some way. But then it dawned on me, the leather and rose aspect of this fragrance smells very similar to FM Rose & Cuir. I would bet that it is isobutyl quinoline that is used. To me, this perfume smells like a cross of Goutal Sables with its warm and savory immortelle notes and Malle Rose & Cuir with its cool and sheer leather and rose, plus the moss and benzoin to round it out. It is not an everyday perfume, but it is very special with so many layers. To me it smells both classic and modern. So glad that I have a bottle!

People on Fragrantica have a fetish for using urine as some sort of critique for anything and everything they don't like. Either there are people out there with their urine smelling like yellow florals and oakmoss or they haven't ever smelled urine in their life.

Mmm, this evokes a damp forest full of magic. Smells amazing on fabric, but on my skin the drydown goes very, very bitter. Nothing but oakmoss. I will keep spraying it on my scarves though!

Bitter, sweet, mossy and floral. Everything you could possibly want! Smells considerably different on fabric and skin! From afar it is sweet, rose and bergamot. But up close it shifts into herbal and dry, oakmoss and leaves. Brilliant scent! I will absolutely be buying the full size of this soon!

Received a sample of this fragrance with another ELDO purchase. One of my favourite houses....
I really appreciate this fragrance, opening was lovely. Although I love masculine leaning fragrances, this was a bit too heavy on the oakmoss for me to actively wear. I would love this on my husband, not sure he would agree.
I do get some cinnamon and incense, but overall the oak moss and leather dominate.
Great fragrance for a guy that loves slightly challenging fragrances!

Edit: Tried this on my husband and its stunning! He's skin pulled alot of the rose, cinnamon and myrhh and smells almost medicinal. Lovely!

The opening is not as bad as everything that follows until you end up with stale urine drenched immortelle on a dry hot dusty day wafting left and right as if you’ve been powdering your peed-on grass-stained pants with maple sugar. If you are brave enough … you can get yourself smelling like this for free, no?

I really like this at the opening. I love immortelle as a note in perfume. Even during drydown and when it dries I like it from a distance of about 2 feet. Any closer than that and the oakmoss becomes overwhelming and hyper bitter. I don't like oakmoss to begin with, but here it actually gives me a headache. I'm extremely glad I got this as a sample decant instead of blind buying the whole bottle because I enjoy every note except the oakmoss. This one is turning into a scrubber after about 3 hours.

It’s not what I expected! I’m used to a sweet and syrupy immortelle, yet The Afternoon of a Faun is dry and bitter. Smells like Cabochard Lite, or a watercolour portrait of someone who’d worn it as their signature scent for many years. A bitter, grassy chypre without much punch; ironically, its lack of power makes The Afternoon of a Faun better in terms of wearability. It has a slightly tea-like, medicinal sweetness ever so slightly (don’t buy this if you’re looking for a sweet scent though). Not full bottle worthy for me as I have other “this smells like a nostalgic/depressing memory” type scents as this one is, but it certainly isn’t offensive or overbearing as far as chypres go.

I guess what I can say is that I like it but don’t love it and for a name that’s so fairytale-like (which makes me think much of Pan’s Labyrinth), I’m a bit disappointed by how lacklustre this scent feels. It’s not bad per se but it doesn’t quite reflect the magic I’d imagine it would, especially given the beautiful note breakdown as well. I think another house like Serge Lutens or LUSH might put a more magical twist to this concept.

A blast: retro floral accord of immortelle and rose meets an incense/cuir treatment from another time period. The ballet is just to start, all the important guests have taken their seats. The pretentious ones, too. The art lovers, the heirs. People who frequent the Albertina Museum in Wien. People who buy the expensive scarfs. No joke and no irony, no beating around the bush: this is an imaginary fragrance that could have been created in the 20's. But could it really? Did immortelle even exist back then?
"Did I love a dream?" says the press release.
Leaves me wanting to dig deeper into perfume history, Belle Epoque, Art Deco and all that.

From reading many reviews I assumed I would be able to predict the general vibe of the fragrance, but this one surprised me nevertheless. Immediately I noticed a resemblance to Olympic Orchids Ballets Rouges, a mouthwatering yet angular rose chypre that also happens to have a ballet related name. They share a velvety, jewel tone impression with a big dose of inky, cool oakmoss and tangy, herbal spice. Formal, dramatic and timeless. The mood is high summer, high noon, but in the deep shade. A sun-baked, dry grass impression and a cool, dark oakmoss/rose vibe come together to evoke 70s era films where sunny outdoor scenes were blindingly bright, bleached looking and overexposed while the shaded scenes appeared overly dark in comparison, creating an eerie but beautiful contrast. Afternoon of a Faun's languorous, romantic yet dark summer mood evokes Picnic at Hanging Rock. Mr. Schweigers usual soft, civilized plushness is felt throughout. Wonderful! A new favorite for me, and one which doesn't render Le Mat redundant at all, which thought it might.

Bitter, smoky oakmoss. I only get immortelle at the very beginning. Do not like it at all.

Unsure what to think of it, I might send it back to the site I bought it off of only cus of the price and size I got, but I'm gonna have my mom try it out first; she loves scents like this one, maybe I could gift it to her.
It starts off very sharp, floral, and powdery. I get lots of the rose. Reminds me a lot of Chanel No 5, which I'm not a huge fan of. I do really like the dry down though, once the florals pass it turns into a spicy maple-syrup type scent, but it takes a while for it to settle into that. I sorta get the earthy wet leaves accord, but not as much of it as I was hoping. I'm going to test it out some more, I really want to love it. Also the label is gorgeous.

Update: still have very mixed feelings but I think its slowly growing on me. I decided to keep it, I lost the box anyway. My feelings about it really depend on my mindset and mood at the time that I'm wearing it, if that makes sense. Ig you can say that about all perfumes, but usually I can form an opinion about most straight away. This one, and many other ELDO frags, got me smelling something different about them with every wear. Whether I like it or not doesn't mean anything to me anymore. It really is an experience.
Its been really good for this fall weather, especially now in November that all the leaves are on the ground, the smell kinda reminds me of jumping into a big leaf pile. Its dry, dusty, and sharp, in a nostalgic way. Still not a fan of the floral-ness, but overall I like it.

Neo-chypré peppery rose, it's like the smell of some lakered wood in an old parisian theater imbued with half a century of various old-time perfumes.
very difficult to wear, like something too grandiose to be assumed easily.
With Rien, Fils de Dieu, Charogne,...one of the best creation from ELDO.

Hmmm. It's a pretty straightforward scent... ahhhh the smell of dried leaves, shrubs, and even some ginseng root! I'm not that much into herbal dominated fragrances, but this fuan's afternoon you could tell was well spent lol

This was a blind buy for me and while it was not what I expected (I had thought it might smell something similar to the Marissa Zappas x Liara Rouix collaboration, Wh*re which was a limited run and is now sold out) I do find myself loving it. What my nose finds in it is rose, powder, clean peen and a sexual rubber/plastic/vinyl. If PDM Delina Exclusif were a woman, this would be someone's magnificent drag impression of her. Dolly Parton once lost a Dolly Parton lookalike contest to a drag queen. This fragrance reminds me of hearing that story. It wavers between leaning femme and masc. The opening is strongly femme but on the dry down when most everything else is spent it is tender, delicate and masc.

Such an evocative nostalgie, which reminds me of my late aunt's Charlie that she used in 70s, with a modern touch of bergamot, black pepper and incense off course. While wearing this, I feel suddenly beamed into an old theater watching the classic ballet piece "Afternoon of a Faun" and sometimes while wearing it at the office, I wanna make a break off the day and run like a crazy person into the woods with the hope of finding that faun hiding between the shimmering lights of sunset, cut continously by thousands branches of the darkened trees in late afternoon. A true master piece IMO

If you like strong medicinal oakmoss you will love this.
I must say I rather smell it on someone else than upclose on me.
When my mum wears it it smelles similar to Herman nice chypre with a bit of a rosy touch.
If I wear it I get too much medicinaly Betadin soap and bandaid smells from the oakmoss.
I will revisit it in the colder season.
9/10 for longlivity and silage for sure.

Cold weather update:
As soon as the seasons changed I fell in love with this! Its actualy on my wishlist. Its AMAZING! If you like vintage chypres and oakmoss for the crisp eleganc and ease TRY this!
If you like unisex scents that truly are beyonde the Binary, TRY this one!
If you want to smell like the thought behinde a unkillable weed that keeps surviving and grows through asphalt despite all atempts to kill it, like natures power, TRY this!

I have liked everything I have sampled from ELdO in the past; but this...

this.

I don't like this. To me this smells like stale curry, that's somehow floating in a grubby public pool. I can't get over that initial stink. I wish it was 'interesting' or a bold 'experiment' but nah It's just a misstep. Shame really but it was inevitable that I would come across one from ELdO that I didn't like - ho hum...4/10

ELDO the Afternoon of the Faun (2012) - immortelle orris - #ralfschwieger got inspiration from the legendary dancer Nijinsky and is one of the perfumes that has a collection of my favorite notes. Starts with a beautiful Bergamot opening mixed with Rose and hay-like and herbal Immortelle. I get spicy Black pepper and smoky Incense as well. I love how the fresher & herbal immortelle accord transitions into a more powdery, animalic and resinous dry down. Orris, Leather, Myrrh, Benzoin and Oakmoss all come together creating one of the most beautiful drydowns I’ve got to smell in modern perfumery. Bravo!

On paper, it’s a lovely immortelle-centric herbal scent.

On my skin though! Immortelle is barely detectable but still there, drenched in some juicy fruity pungent note. What is this? Smells like artificial apricot flavoring, or rotten osmanthus flowers. I cannot stand how vile this is on me.

I’m truly open to anything but this is the only one fragrance I had to scrub off in my entire life.

Oooo this is so nice! I usually don't like scents that smell "dated" but there's something so comforting about this one. It reminds me of a very lux bubble bath in an 80s marble bathroom. This isn't so much "scary aunt" as it is the glamorous grandma with high-maintenance hair and a well tempered chihuahua. To me, it smells vaguely of raisins and soap. As a non-binary person myself, I was pleasantly surprised to find this was created in collaboration with Mx Justin Vivian Bond. Very cool. I too wish to collaborate on a perfume one day. I received a sample but it came in a vial without a sprayer, so I can't really give an accurate review in terms of longevity and sillage.

There is something so delicate about this scent. It is so fresh and uplifting. It definitely screams Spring to me.

The smell is a 90's drag queen's wig saturated with days of hairspray, along with the last remnants of the Chanel No 5 that the wig caught.

I keep it in the rotation but I'm not sure if I totally like it.

This is a really creative entry from ELdO, then again, most of their entries are unique, that is their schtick after all. However, as much as I would like to say I love this, because from my memory of wearing it is good, I unfortunately ended up throwing up while wearing this fragrance and remember the smell hitting my nose the same time I emptied my stomach. I now associate the illusive herbal-roseyness to feeling ill. It's a good fragrance, it will just take some time for me to readjust to how it smells after my last wearing. 8/10

Mossy, mysterious, herbal, woody. Strange and beautiful. I detect a slight hairspray note. Unisex, but maybe leans a little masculine. Afternoon of a Faun is a smell I really like, but turns out I don't often want to smell OF it. My husband likes it so now I can enjoy it on him. Starts a little bitter and bright, then softens and stays close. Lasts for days.

I love the scent of immortelle: the dried flowers and the solvent-extracted absolute, warm and herbaceous, almost idyllic in nature. It reminds me of wildflowers under the sun, dry, baked, with the smell of the soil beneath them coming through. The first fragrance I encountered the features the note is a true love of mine, Annick Goutal Sables, which is pretty much an immortelle soliflore that really brings out the fenugreek and maple aspects of the note. Then there is Histoires de Parfums 1740, immortelle via leather, really dark and delicious.

Afternoon of a Faun is a bright autumn sun of a scent: immortelle with radiant aldehydes; bold, resinous, almost pungent myrrh, and a large tuft of oakmoss and florals. Immortelle is in itself a gregarious note, so there is truly art in motion here, to be able to have this altogether is nothing short of perfumery genius.

I am also struck by its mercurial nature: at certain points in its development, the rose and orris overshadow the immortelle and resins, then they recede, and return, a choreographic exchange with the moss weaving in and out, the myrrh asserting its dominance and then yielding. It's really a thrilling and positively enjoyable wear because there is a bit more suspense than usual, at least as it all dances on my skin and in my space. Afternoon of a Faun is olfactory seduction.

An interesting masterpiece. It opens with a dirty, earth, floral slightly animalic accord that seems like a top note, until it lingers into the heart and reappears in the base, literally like a faun walking away from you into the distance.

This one is quite challenging to describe. The opening is a blast of florals, after a few minutes it settles and the immortelle turns more to the honey/tobacco side, the bergamot starts to sparkle. Even further dried down the resins and earthiness start to come through.
It's a really impressive, unique scent that evolves over time. I appreciate the artistry behind this scent but I wouldn't wear it myself, if it's your sort of thing though I think you will absolutely love it. For me it leans a tiny bit feminine and the sillage is quite soft.

7/10

Everything i hoped for in Faun but didnt find, i found in Liz Moores Dryad. Both refer to beings in greek mythology. Both are more or less neo-chypres. To me the rose overpowers the other materials in Faun. Don't let the main accords above fool you. Amber is definitely not in the forefront. My beloved immortelle seems strangely staged here, herbal yes but together with the metallic rose it sadly all falls apart for me. Faun handles immortelle similiar to the way Bianchis Etruscan water does and im not a fan of both.

It's a pretty heavy scent. Winter and autumn fragrance. Notes such as rose, oak moss, immortal flower, incense, pepper are blended very well. It smells reminiscent of cigar tobacco. performance is satisfactory

The Afternoon of a Faun feels like the olfactory equivalent of a proper meal after you've been subsisting on extremes of cheap, trashy snacks and the avant-garde weirdness of sneaking into a gallery opening to pilfer nibbles from molecular gastronomy art installations. It's not a rib roast or a tofurkey or any meal in particular, but it's that thing you dine on, whatever that might be for you, that satisfies your belly and nourishes your body and makes you feel good. I suppose this analogy is my way of admiring how extraordinarily well-balanced this perfume is. Inspired, I believe by both a poem of a faun recounting his horny dreams and the scandalous ballet based on the poem, The Afternoon of a Faun is a  mossy-spicy-woody-aromatic-green-floral subscription box of a scent wrapped in a bow of bitter herbs and peppery celery enveloping a heart of immortelle's smoky tea and burnt sugar note. If you enjoy chypre scents, you can't go wrong with this one. If you are not sure, or are new to perfume, this is a great one to start with.

"Afternoon of a Faun" is the name of a french poem which was performed as a ballet dance by Nijinsky in 1912.
When Nijinsky danced the story, he created a scandal!
This Perfume has a woody, earthy floral smell.
The focus point of the aroma is on reminding the forest atmosphere and uses the mix of oakmoss and immortelle for this target.
Of course the bold scent of myrrh converts it into the unique case among other woody perfumes.
Also I can feel a little leathery and powdery notes that try to make perfume sexy.
This perfume can satisfy classic perfumes fans and has an old classic sense in the background.
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(فان/faun : موجودی افسانه ای با نیم تنه انسان و شاخ و پاهای بز)
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"بعدازظهرِ یک فان" نام شعری فرانسوی اثر "استفان مالارمه" هست. این شعر روایتگر رویای یک فانه.
رویای گردشی عصرگاهی که فان در اون به چندتا حوری برمیخوره و از روی هوس دنبالشون میکنه اما تنها چیزی که در نهایت نصیبش میشه شال یکی از حوری هاست ...
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این شعر در سال ۱۹۱۲ توسط "واسلاو نیژنسکی" به شکل رقص باله اجرا شد و به دلیل محتوای شهوانی و صحنه هایی با مضامین جنسی که با رقص باله ی کلاسیک تعارض داشت باعث ایجاد جنجال، رسوایی و اعتراض شدید مخاطبان و منتقدان شد.
تصویر روی جعبه و لیبلِ عطر اثر "لئون باکست" برای همین اجرا طراحی شده و نیژنسکی رو با گریم و لباس فان نشون میده.
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و اما بو...
رایحه ای زمینی چوبی بر عطر حکم فرماست و ادویه جات و گل هایی که رز از همشون برجسته تره پس زمینه عطرو خوش آب و رنگ میکنن.
عطر با توجه به داستانی که الهام بخش ساختش بوده با بهره بردن از نت هایی مثل خزه بلوط و ایمورتل (که بویی علفی، تلخ/ شیرین و خاکی داره) بر فضای چوبی، جنگلی تاکید میکنه. اما مُر با بوی صمغی ترش و شیرینش برگ برنده ی عطر برای تبدیل رایحه از یک عطر چوبی گلیِ معمولی به رایحه ای متفاوت و یونیک ظاهر میشه.
در این بین رگه هایی از چرم و پودر هم سعی در نفسانی جلوه دادن رایحه میکنن اما خیلی در هدفشون موفق نیستن.
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ترکیب حس سبز و تلخی گالبانوم مانند عطر با چرم و کمی شیرینی گلی من رو یاد عطر شنل N19 وینتج میندازه و کلیت رایحه کمی برام یادآور بوی حنا هست. عطر حس کهنگیِ آشنایِ عطرهای شیپغ و خزه ایِ کلاسیک رو با خودش داره و میتونه کلاسیک دوست هارو راضی کنه اما نمیشه گفت مطلقا کلاسیکه.
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طبع رایحه معتدله و گزینه خوبی برای مصرف در بهار و پاییزه.

This is the most elusive perfume ever!

Can someone explain to me how this can happen: I spray TAOAF on and all I get is the smell of Elnette hairspray (or something similar), I dismiss the thought of ever wearing this again...then I forget I am wearing it and go on with my life.... BUT then all of the sudden, when I least expect it, I get hit by the most unique and exhilarating smell ...HOWEVER, when I bring my wrist to my nose, sometimes it's gone! ...is the faun playing tricks on me?

That said...I think I like it. Am I being seduced?

The name really suits it. Sunshine on greenery. It's definitely warm spicy and green, somewhat herbal, beyond that it's hard for me to make out specific notes. I would say this leans decidedly masculine. Unfortunately, I don't really like it - something about it is a sharp 'wet dog' smell. I guess that's the 'faun' part.

I'd been curious about this scent for a while, and it did not disappoint. The Afternoon of a Faun is a bold and yet beautifully-balanced woody-aromatic-floral, with an interestingly inversion of the usual scent pyramid - the darker, woody aspects reveal themselves first. It's initially boozy, leathery, and peppery, with prominent oakmoss. The flowers unfurl more cautiously. Once they do, the rose and immortelle are gorgeous, with immortelle as a particularly powerful player. There's also a crisp vegetal note that smells distinctly like celery.

I don't get any Nijinsky-esque danger or raw eroticism from this, necessarily, but it does call to mind the kind of fragrance that might have satisfied his more adventorously-minded audience members. I'm very much into this.

I think I like the opening a lot more than the drydown.
The opening is bright, green and mossy but the drydown just smells like straight-up depression.
Sad. Seemed very promising.

it is a fragrance that does not change much from start to finish, decays under immortelle and incense, and occasionally tries to make something of Rose and pepper. It's beautiful, it's different and it's permanent.

Marcelle Lender Dancing the Bolero in "Chilpéric" by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

A great take on the immortelle and oakmoss theme, with a noticeable support of a citric rose, making it very unisex, and remotely reminding me of GFF Uomo (which is more masculine). It is pretty simple in terms of evolution, but this one is more a fragrance to create an aura/presence/feeling, instead of telling a real story. In the drydown, some might get a "cardboard" note, but me I get a vague impression of soft tobacco (probably an impression because of the oakmoss), and gets heavier, a la HdP 1740. A bit disappointing since the rose gave a unique a enlightening touch.
Might have inspired Jovoy L'Art de la Guerre (which is the rose-less ultra masculine, more formal version of this one, imho).
This is the scent of Fall by excellence. Performance is on the lower end, but this one can be found for dirt cheap online, thus allowing to spray more liberally. Best worn in Fall days, casually. Recommended at discounter pricing, but loving the immortelle note is a requirement, and thus do not blind buy if you don;t know what I'm talking about!
Top/Heart: 4/5
Base: 3/5

Unisex, 25+

Bought this scents a couple of years ago on a whim because I loved the way it smelled in the store. However the drydown smells like cardboard. Had to give it away. Sad times.

Nice mossy fragrance. Very refreshing especially in the summer months. Though I must admit I'm not a huge fan of the dry-down, I feel like the dry down could be more interesting to be honest :) But the beginning is nice!

Love it! It's a great scent. There is a similarity with Sables but this is immortelle and pepper centered. Wonderfully smoky but yet green for some strange reason. I guess that's the oakmoss. The iris adds a coolness and a touch of powderiness.
I get moderate longevity and sillage.

The smell of Imortelle and Black pepper come on strong right away and the Imortelle stays as it fades.

Subtle hints of rose linger, as well as other resinous and floral arrangements. This also has notes of spiciness like fresh chilis.

This reminds me a bit of walking into a floral shop mixed with walking into a head shop. Incense and flowers.

The sillage is quite potent but the longevity is a few hours.

On my skin, this is a beautiful, perfect Chypre Floral fragrance. It is very authentic, green, herbal, a bit bitter, slightly powdery, dry but not too much so, a bit sweet and more floral in the dry-down. It is simply gorgeous. Very feminine to my nose. Immortelle, oakmoss, soapy rose, orris root, incense, leather, and some bergamot in the opening are the notes I detect from this loveliness. I don't smell any of the wet leaves, celery, or sourness of any sort here. To me, this is the smell of a sunny forest in the time of Indian summer. Longevity (10 to 12 h) and sillage (quite heavy for the first few hours) are both very good. So happy with this one. Very classic and extraordinary. Just wow!

2 months ago I almost bought a tester bottle online blindly. In the end I let the chance pass but I bought and today got a 10 ml sample. I have to say, it is as unique as its name. I love immortelle, even in lethal doses (Sables)or embraced by gourmand notes (L de Lolita). It has a sweetness that tones down the spices but does not render it feminine.
The scent is quite potent, spray carefully, you can always add more if you want to ;) I recommend trying it before buying as I can see, it's not everyone's cup of tea.

This smells very strange. Like an old lady's perfume. Turns out I am not a fan of immortelle at all.

2/5

This is not going to be a substantive review, sorry :)

This is the most enchanting fragrance to me ever. I can't tell why, I can't even say much about the notes cause as soon as it reaches my nose I'm transported into a different space and time, unable to focus and put my thoughts together. I can only say that somehow this fragrance evokes memories of most peaceful and cheerful moments of my childhood. I see myself sitting in a high grass of some meadow full of flowers, herbs and weeds all bathed in the afternoon Sun. It made the soil warm and the air is dry and everything that grows sets it's essential oils off. A bit spicy, sour, geranium-like. Just a trail of incense to make it dryer. This really is the smell of Sun itself :)
Beautiful, unique and most of all bright. This Immortelle is simply magic ❤

No. Just no.
I received a sample of this and was quite excited to try it as I generally love Etat Libre's creations. But this is really not my thing. There's a lot going on, and most of it smells terrible. The initial blast had a hit of jasmine, a note that always makes me think of cleaning products, but this faded into the background fairly quickly.
I can see why people think of wet leaves, but for me it's wet leaves that someone's urinated on. There's a harsh, almost vinegary, sting, which I found very unpleasant. Had to wash this off straight away, which I don't usually do on principle.

This is the third of Ralph Schweiger’s creations that I loved at first sniff. I bought this blind despite warnings to the contrary. I have no regrets.

That said, I can see how it would not be an easy love. It’s definitely not a crowd-pleaser: my dad told me I smelled like paint. I almost asked him what kind of paint he’d been sniffing so that I could get some for myself. In his defense, I had oversprayed--but it was only 3 sprays! Be warned: this is strong, and the sprayer on the 100ml bottle is quite enthusiastic. I believe it was the oakmoss that my father noticed, as that can have an astringent, almost pissy, smell in excess. But don’t let that deter you! This fragrance is amazing.

In moderation--no more than 2 sprays--Afternoon of a Faun is beautiful. I do not know if I have ever smelled anything quite like this. It is equal parts a throwback to classic perfumery and olfactory post-modernism. It smells like Schweiger took a classic rose chypre, drenched it in immortelle, and added a heaping dose of coumarin funk. From the very first spritz, this is all about the immortelle, oakmoss, rose, and coumarin, in that order.

Faun’s rose is a jammy rose, very prominent (why is it listed so far down in the pyramid? It’s a mystery), its jammy depth intensified by the maple-floral scent of immortelle. The resulting sweetness is contained by the coumarin and oakmoss, never allowing the perfume to veer into gourmand territory. Schweiger pulls off an incredible balancing act here with the sweet and the savory elements, creating a perfume with PATHOS. I’ve been wearing this nonstop since it arrived: about five wears. I still don’t quite understand it. Yet Faun is seductive enough that I am compelled to keep wearing it, to sniff deeply, to listen closely to the story it is trying to tell.

The temperatures here have been about 30-40 degrees American with a lot of humidity. I’m not sure that this is a good spring or summer perfume option as I feel that higher temperatures might overemphasize the sweaty nature of coumarin. I can’t wait to wear this in the fall. The composition is perfect for a New England fall: it smells like walking in the woods when the foliage is in all its red and orange and yellow splendor. The sun is peeking through the trees, and the light has that golden quality it gets in the late afternoon at that time of year. You hike by a maple grove, and the sap from the trees mingles in the air with the smell of all the undergrowth decaying into fresh, loamy soil. Somewhere far away, someone is burning a wood fire (the incense note, which subtle but still present).

This wafts--definitely more than an arm’s length!--and it LASTS. I put some of this on at 7 in the morning--and I can still catch whiffs of it on my wrists now at midnight. It’s faded down to a skin scent, something like a caramelized celery (lovage? I really want to say that the coumarin in this comes from lovage, which is one of my favorite eating herbs) but still detectable, with a hint of richness from the resins. Absolutely incredible performance, which goes to show that it IS possible to create a powerhouse with modern ingredients and sell it at a reasonable price.

The best part about it is that Ralf Schweiger composed this with Justin Vivian Bond, who identifies as nonbinary! In the fragrance world, gender is everywhere. There are strong gender lines in perfumery, which can be uncomfortable for a person with a complicated gender identity like myself to navigate. Afternoon of a Faun is for the queers! It is neither feminine nor masculine: its chypre heritage was equally popular in both men’s and women’s perfumerie for decades. I love being able to buy a perfume developed with the input of a nonbinary person, and I hope more perfume houses follow Etat’s lead and start developing fragrances especially for trans, nonbinary, and genderqueer fragrance enthusiasts!

4/10

This has a boozy smell on my skin...the slightly green, slightly spicy bits all mixed up up in this one...is it art?...absolutely...Is it wearable?...absolutely!

The problem I have with this smell is that it must be worn in the dead of winter. The colder it is, the more complex the bottle, and it must be a humid place. The more humidity the better! Trust me! I live between Vancouver and Edmonton and it can be worn near the sea in winter but not in the prairies where it is a dry dry cold. Any other times of year, the bottle totally loses its complexity and becomes mere sycamore and immortelle. This is sad because I love all the top notes and so I wish I could wear it more often but, sadly, if it is not optimum conditions for the 'fume then it is rather one note.

edit: try shaking the bottle if it has been sitting too long. It may regain some of its complexity after some losses!

An interesting dry grass smell. I'm definitely getting the orris root and immortelle. Reminds me at some moments of Bill Blass Nude and at other moments I think of Ivoire de Balmain.

Strange but nice. This needs a serious, non-giggly person to wear it. It's no nonsense and wool sweaters.

The Afternoon A Faun is a poetic fragrance, sophisticated and evocative. However,I recognize the scent something imaginative. The pyramid is complex,but in some strange way the notes seem to come together and merge into a transition between dream and reality.. like ....memory of a distant era. Beautiful perfume, as always amazes me ELDO. *•♥


Sillage: 7./10
Longevity: 8.5/10
Scent: 8.5/10

Overall: 8.5/10

From the reviews and description I half-expected this to be a lot more challenging to like, but for me it’s easy to like. Probably because it’s the kind of thing I generally do like: herbal, mossy, earthy, citrusy, and green, done with a lot of elegance. In fact, it smells kind of like Chanel No. 19 on me, except slanted more masculine-style; a little more spice and leather than 19. The sharper, fresher green notes also remind me of the blackcurrant leaf in L’Ombre Dans l’Eau. “Vegetal” is a good word for this one (I do see the hint of celery), and I’m especially liking how it smells as it lingers. The immortelle comes out just enough to make it a bit sweet, while it stays green and juicy, not cloying. I’m kind of adoring and coveting it as it develops. Huh. Next morning a pleasant sweet-celery still lingers, faintly, and I really do like it. Funny.

Beautiful Immortelle all the way. Turned into a very powdery smell half way thru. Baby fresh, clean and easy going. But then at the end turned into some sort of tomato garden soup smell. WTH?

Rarely my expectations from a perfume I read about are fulfilled so greatly as it happened with The afternoon of a faun. I'm enjoying my sample so much I'll be sure to buy a bottle.
People talk about a forest vibe, but it's not a damp, old forest. I see strong young trees in a forest that's kept clean of undergrowth by human hands...
I tend to like all fragrances with moss, and I like immortelle too, I smell them here along with resins. The spices on my skin are not too loud, which is fine with me.

This reminds me of their infamous Secretions Magnifiques.. As if they decided to tame that monster and add stuff to make it wearable! I mean the Satyr has a pretty strong connection with the other "juice" too (giggle)

*so I actually put them side by side and compared.. Oh my gosh Secretions Magnifiques is worse than I remembered! (almost threw up) The first 10 min was truly unbearable and only has 10% resemblance, then as it becomes less vigorous and repulsive, the resemblance gradually increased to 50% by the hour mark.

I really like this fragrance, my favourite ELdO together with Rien. Immortelle seems to be at the centre here and subdued by floral and other notes. The notes seem almost fruity, but the sensation is likely due to iris and oakmoss, I suppose.

The fragrance's balance and end product is great! It is not 'fresh' in my opinion or 'green', but rather evokes autumn leaves and brownish/reddish colours in a soft aromatic way.

It does not change much of time, but that's fine with me. Perfectly unisex.

chi come me ama Yatagan e quella ristretta serie di profumi maschili a lui simili e astratti non rimarrà deluso da questa creazione. purtroppo ho solo un piccolo campione di questa delizia che incorpora tutto quello che per me di buono si può rintracciare nelle fragranze maschili, un po' old style e dandy, lontanissime dai territori dei machissimi e freddissimi accordi che al momento (da anni invero) vendono tanto e fan sembrare, all'olfatto, gli uomini tutti uguali. qui si gioca tutto sui contrasti: sulle prime l'impressione è verde, erbacea e un tantino agrumata (muschio di quercia, lime e un tocco di rosa fresca), poi spuntano pepe nero e cannella sorretti da elicriso, timido invero ma per questo strepitoso, fino all'assestamento più balsamico e un po' cuoioso con incenso e mirra. l'evoluzione è dunque tra il fresco (non gelato nè a base di conifera!) e lo speziato, per finire sul resinoso. ottimo!

The opening reminds me of sweet church wine. The dry down is like a smokey version of Aramis 900.Highly recommended!

Someone below mentioned an "ashtray in a French cafe" smell in this...upon first hearing that description I thought "Ugh...what a horrid fragrance this must be!". Well...with an open mind and my eyes closed, I inhaled the fragrance off my wrist about a half hour after daubing it on...and that description is so accurate! Some people have a real talent for describing fragrances in such a way that I really "get" what they are talking about. The ashtray part is somewhat disconcerting at first but the French aspect of the description calls to mind beautiful European women wearing expensive perfume whilst sitting at an outdoor cafe, smoking long slim cigarettes in even longer elegant cigarette holders.
Close your eyes, open your imagination and see what comes to mind!

One of my all time favorite. I'm very fond of the scent from myrrh and immortelle.
Actually I've used this one as a method to calm myself.
Couple of weeks ago I had an abdominal surgery, I applied very little juice on both my wrists before the nurses took me to the operating room.
I still remembered that my doctor (who's going to "open" my belly) said to me, " Wow you smell so good" before he wore his surgical mask(he came into the room to say hi to me before they prepared for the surgery).

In all honesty, you can never really really lose when you purchase fragrances from this house given the reasonable prices. With that being said, this stuff is waaaaay too safe. I'm talking child locks, or better yet Jack Johnson music type of safe. With this much capacity and flair given the note lineup, I expected Afternoon with a Faun to deliver; underwhelming in the expectations department. The immortelle note is very consistent throughout making this fragrance more for a goddess than for a God. Those that are not too fond of bombastic fragrances will find this rather delightful. Light and earthy seems to win people over...I guess. Could be a real treat for those that want to smell gorgeous. Personally, I'm looking for the CGI, the real special effects. None found here. There have been many descriptions for this fragrance, and I'd say this smells like a honeyed forest. If your looking for a fragrance that breaks the immortelle speed limit, then I'd suggest you to try Une Nuit a Doha.....not this wimpy thing.

A chypre of sorts, I guess. The main impression is of damp green forest floor. Oakmoss and that aquatic wetness you get with the use of floralozone. Strong sharp note of pepper cuts through, along with vegetable curry notes - cumin and celery perhaps? A definite Yatagan-like quality.

Interesting, but not for me.

I should preface this review with the fact that 'The Afternoon of a Faun' is without a doubt, my favourite perfume on the planet.

It opens with a blast of spicy-sweet green notes, something boozey, and a certain dank earthiness - almost musty. This is a case of the notes adding up to something greater than the sum of their parts. I can smell the steely, earthy orris, the sweet, inky immortelle, the leather, the resins, and the citrus. Altogether though they create a truly bizarre and wonderful olfactory impression. At once damp, dark, dank and green whilst retaining a slight fresh edge, something wild and untamed.

As the heart develops the leather and moss join the ever-present immortelle and the frag takes on a drier, dustier face. The orris continues its earthen march and the fragrance reminds me of crushed leaves on a dark forest floor - warm and ever-so-slightly damp. Hints of rotting vegetation, animal musks and musty leather.

This has orris that isn't carroty, immortelle that isn't syrupy or curry-like, pepper that isn't overwhelming and harsh. They've somehow managed to take notes that by all logic should clash terribly and made them dance together in one big, debaucherous orgy of leaves, trees and wild things.

Sillage is surprisingly good. It's not going to knock anyone out, but you'll catch whiffs of it frequently as you go about your day. Longevity is excellent, and the projection stays strong for a long percentage of wear time.

An odd, contrary imp of a fragrance. Enjoy with fine food, fine wine, and the embrace of a fine lover.

هذا العطر مجنوووون. بالمرة. انصح فيه رسمي وروعه مسائي او شتوي لا ينصح فيه بالصيف

I really dig this fragrance. This is Tracy Bonham's "Mother, Mother" video from 1996 (where the woman was vaccumming in the floor-to-ceiling avocado green living room the whole time) in a bottle. It's "shaggy" and mossy, kinda dank, and intriguing in an uncomfortable way. Also, there is a grip of rose! What a trip.

This is Pan.

Of the wild, green, herbal, untamed, animalic, warm, spicy, inviting and sprightly. A medley of notes flitting through the air. A captivating tune, orchestrated by a daring house.

Longevity and sillage are impressive. And certainly a cool weather fragrance.
It loses it's lustre in the heat.

This is a complex perfume there's no doubt of that. It's difficult to pick out individual notes, other than strong rose in the opening.

There's a singed peppery woodiness as it develops that I find quite harsh (reminds me a little of the singed quality in Luten's L'Orpheline). Actually it's maybe birch (used for a leather note) which is often described as phenolic. As for immortelle, yes it's there but not in the way I've experienced immortelle in real life - i.e. a soft, warm golden, dusty haze borne on a Mediteranean breeze, with burnt sugar/fennel tones.

This is like immortelle trampled into the damp earth and the remains of a bonfire, perhaps by the cloven hooves of a dancing faun, who's danced his little hooves off all night, then he's awoken at dawn with the scent of cold, musky sweat clinging to his goaty/hairy body!

In other words, this is quite earthy and masculine, but odd too.

This singed woody slightly harsh quality remains all the way through for me. I tend to prefer those perfumes that you can relax into, whose dry down settles with skin harmoniously, and similarly to Fireside Intense, this note, which I think might be birch, or maybe a woody musk, is a little harsh

It doesn't quite suit my skin, and why would it? I'm not a hairy sweaty goat. Yep, this is Mr Tumnus trotting back to his cave after a night on the tiles!

Sillage quite soft, longevity good
Edit: I've just realised that this reminds me of the (I think discontinued) scent Nino Cerruti Pour Homme, I did like that on men - it had a leathery, sweaty jasmine aroma, but without this singed-hair/wood quality

the Top note is sharp & splashy as i've learned from ELDO's perfumes is their top notes shouldn't be counted cause you'll dislike good perfumes at MAX (as what happened to me with Tom of Finland, & Dangerous Complicity) so i gave it a bit time till the middle note after awhile it still smell quite sharp but complex! as the first second of sniffing the middle note gave the sharpness of pepper & maybe bergamot, & the second second of the same sniff before moving my nose from it i smell the dirtiness of floor that has been wiped by a million time used old building mob, huge complexity actually and a drawback i guess.
after 30 minutes then comes the base note, still sharp and it reminds me of an EXACT smell i get from Estee Lauder Intuition the for women one. quite sharp yellowish peppery smell. i guess it has the vintage prestigious aristocratic essence vibe, not much but a little because of it's sharpness and personally i see it a bit annoying to me. so i guess ill give it more tries and we'll see!

To me this is a lovely modern green chypre and yes it is aromatic, too. Think "Dioressence" but not so dry: warmer, wetter, grassier (freshly cut), and a bit fruity.

I keep on thinking lime green, mustard wallpapers with psychadelic patters of the 60ies and the wild parties that go with it. However you can equally play Dee-Lite "Groove Is In The Heart" and dance your socks off to it, until you find someone you fancy and you just step outside the terrace into the freshly cut lawn and start wet kissing on a late spring crisp evening when the first roses have just come to bloom. (You have both just drunk your 2nd bottle of Sauvignon Blanc).

If only those big black resin designer glasses weren't in the way, you'd actually enjoy being snogged by a geek. Oh now they are playing "Cantaloop" by US-3 (funky).

10/10 for originality. Colour code: LIME GREEN

Harsh, to the bitter end.
I'm happy that I received a sample of this strange named fragrance. I have to admit, it was very difficult wearing this the whole day! I wanted to see how it developed, and if it got any better...But, in the end, I was happy to scrub it off, as I just couldn't get used to the overwhelming bitterness of it! The opening had a touch of bergamot, but was quickly overcome with the crack of a large leather whip, surrounded by immortelle and a cold steely touch of iris. I didn't pick up any cinnomon, which is a shame, as it would have added a bit of warmth to the picture. Perhaps the moss made it so bitter, hard to say, but the fragrance is so very dry! Dry and a very unpleasant type of green. I felt very uncomfortable wearing it, as it has an almost sad vibe to it. It is by far, a more masculine scent. This may be attractive to those who like rather dry, green, leathery scents. I just couldn't get past the harsh, bitter side of it.

this scent is heavy and thick just like an 80's powerhouse, really aromatic and green, for grown ups only..kids of the 80's..and girls of the 80's love it to bits!
layered in the afterglow with Antaeus.... and the trick is done!

Big, green, soft, warm and funky. Green and dry like chrysanths, round and rich like roses, a twang of bitter celery and turmeric, some quality of dust motes in a sunray, quite a bit of leather quietly underlying it all. Bone dry, rich and earthy with excellent old-fashioned staying power.

Justin Vivian Bond, who co-created this perfume, said in Paper Magazine "I wanted it to smell like 'a touch of taint on the knoll at twilight.' By that, I mean I wanted it to smell like two faeries dancing by a fire in the woods and then going off and having sex next to a bed of flowers." I'm not sure that it absolutely hits that directive but it is a beautifully blended, off-centre dry green floral which pays funked-up homage to classics like Miss Dior and Chanel no19.

The spicy incense opening to "Afternoon of Faun" evokes the scene of Nijinsky's ballet quite brilliantly. It's sombre, haunting and earthy. However, the drydown...

The potent imortelle, mixed with leather, some vague floral notes and oakmoss, create a weird musky accord that reminds me of a dried up urinal cake in a vacant pissoire. The texture is dusty, like pencil shavings.

Overall, not pleasant.

So, Faun is a forest god from Roman mythology. In this in mind I was very eager to try THE AFTERNOON OF A FAUN, I've loved creations by ELDO before and this is yet another wonderful composition.
I can't tell a single note that stands out as this has a perfect composition with all the notes. This reminds me of a sunny day in forest. This is not just a scent of pines and such. This is the smell of trees, wood branches, soil, leaves (the green ones in the trees and those below your feet) and even mushrooms. It feels so weird yet so inviting and interesting. I was literally sniffing myself all day long even though I cannot imagine myself wearing this on daily basis.

This is clearly worth a try. Excellent silage and it stayed on my skin for more than 10 hours.
I do think though that this will compliment a male skin more.

This reminds me of a shampoo I had in the eighties. It was called Jane hellen and it came in a green triangular bottle. I feel really nostalgic when I smell this. does anyone else smell this or does my memory play a trick on me? the scent is really good. it's musty and foresty. and really strong. some thing wet, damp and dark to. it's just on the verge of getting a bit to overpowering. it's also a bit diffrent so test before you buy. works for both men and women.

Musty, old books. An ashtray in a french cafe kind of smell

In my experience of Etat Libre d'Orange Afternoon of a Faun, a new perfume by the famed Ralf Schwieger, there are two very clear and distinct phases. The opening is a big volume sweet oriental. This sets up certain expectations (mostly of some sort of amber drydown to come). What follows, however, seems more like a woody chypre! Very interesting composition, it seems to me, as these two phases have been magically united in one little bottle of perfume.

I initially thought that Afternoon of a Faun would be, as advertised, more likely to be appreciated by women than men. I changed my view though by the drydown, when I kept thinking of the dying embers of a campfire perfumes which I've encountered. The composition ends up smelling dry and austere, more like a scent for a cowboy of the rugged West than the denizens of a brothel, as rich orientals sometimes suggest.

I've seen that opinions are all over the map on this creation, with people apparently perceiving completely different perfumes, all bearing the name Afternoon of a Faun. But that makes perfect sense, since this is so complex and juxtaposes notes in such unexpected ways that different people are bound to focus on different features.

The incense is quite marked to my nose, but the smokiness makes this seem like a lot more than the run-of-the-mill incense perfume. I definitely would not categorize this in the incense but the woody oriental chypre genre. I am not at all sure that I know what immortelle smells like, so no comment on that component. The important point here is that I find this to be a very fine perfume--of which I'd love to have a bottle!

The perfume-tells-a-story bit isn’t my bag. Why do we try so hard to push narrative onto non-literal experiences? As much as I love to write about perfume, the writing is utterly after the fact of the experience. Just let me smell my perfume and experience the state.

The poem, the music the ballet, the myth. Genug shoin! Afternoon of a Faun perfume doesn’t suggest fauns or any of the notions that a faun represents in mythology. But story aside, it is a brilliant perfume.

There have been a number of strategies to recreate or suggest the chypre accord without the bio-hazard oakmoss. Chanel 31 Rue Cambon bends a floral amber into the shape of a chypre. Annick Goutal Mon Parfum Cheri makes patchouli, a common chypre component, a stand-in for rather than a partner to oakmoss. de Nicolai’s Vie de Chateau Intense plays with the hay-like scent of coumarin to create a fougere/chypre hybrid. But Ralf Schwieger does a clever turn with Afternoon of a Faun.

Using immortelle, which I wouldn’t otherwise think to associate with oakmoss, he plays up the sandpapery, dusty feel of oakmoss giving us the tone and the shape of the chypre without explicitly trying to smell like one. The composition has a clear bergamot note, and an ambery benzoin if not cistus labdanum itself, so the rest of the chypre elements are in play. But immortelle, when matched with incense and myrrh implies that state between smokiness and resin that moss creates. Imagine that perfume notes are elements on the periodic table. Schwieger goes directly up one level to find the element that shares the same chemical properties as our element oakmoss and makes a new compound.

Rather then suggesting a chypre (31 Rue Cambon) or using chypre-like elements (treemoss and the new synthetics) Schwieger gives us a parallel universe chypre, and I for one couldn’t be happier. This could easily be a signature scent for someone searching for perfume monogamy.

from scent hurdle.com

A unisex concoction of boozy spice, green notes and leather. It smells herbal fresh. The overall effect on the imagination is of saddling up a horse before riding off into the crisp, woodsy air of the countryside. The cinnamon and pepper is pronounced. It has an edible component like a hot cross bun dipped in a rum liqueor.

Got a sample of this for the husband. I loved it on him. It's got a certain forest vibe, I can clearly pick out the pepper, a note I'm fond of. Unfortunately, he thought it too floral for him.

Difficult to describe it... Perhaps with a music video ?
watch?v=6oYmc9WTdSs
(Faun - Egil Saga)

Forest, beautiful voices of the 2 singers, pagan music... Well, it's pretty well summarized, in my opinion.

Animalic, deep and warm. But very aromatic and floral, with a powdery background. That's it for me...
The Immortelle (beautiful name for a beautiful flower) is powerful, and supported by the bergamot. A floral-citrus combo on the top, with another duet on the background composed by incense and leather, dear to EldO.

For completing this, all is well included by spices all-around, as cinnamon, myrrh and benzoin.

So here it is, forget all you know about fragrances, this one is very unique. A faun is half-human, half-animal, this perfume is half-earthy, half-floral.

Half-loved ? No... ENTIRELY LOVED !

Wowee, congrat's ELd'O - now this is what can be called a proper 'CHYPRE' chypre ! (And not just a pale 'modern-patchouli-laden-cheating' mock one, but a gloriously authentic true mossy one, just like in their golden good ol' days !) - Just goes to show & prove that, in these our 'FDA-restricted' times, it's still perfectly possible to turn out a beautifully mossy chypre, just the way they're supposed & meant to be.

-> And hey Fragrantica, you really need to update the above notes list to include what is arguably 'Faun's most imperative note i.e. MOSS, which somehow you've neglected to include. And it really is the one note that informs the whole vibe of the fragrance.

What I see reminds me very much of YS Uzac's Pohadka. The two fragrances are built with almost the same notes: leather, immortelle, resins, as well as similar green and fresh notes. I prefer Pohadka, because it is more complex and lasts longer.

The flavours in here are such an unusual combination that I am not sure what attracts me to it. At first the temptation is to knock it back and complain of "oldness" but in fact its the scent of antiquity which keeps bringing me back to try it again, every ten minutes or so. Its the smell of musty flowers in a vase of brackish water. That must be the helichrysum: it reminds me of old chrysanths that nobody removed from a hospital bedside. But the peppery backlash against the delicacy of the bergamot and the incense, makes it modern, mysterious and dark, gives it depth and staying power, draws you in with enchantment, wanting to know what it will smell of next time you sniff.

I'm a huge fan of Etat Libre D'Orange but, this thime, they really have to be kidding me. Immortelle? Cinnamon? Benzoin? Leather? WHAAAT?

This is all about a hyper-green orris root bonded around a woody-citrus bone structure. Maybe not as generic as one may initially think but definitely safe and sort of cold. Made me think about a partially successful delivery from Divine. Think about L'Etre Aime Homme minus the ambery drydown and you'll get an idea. There's a part where the orris root is timidly joined by some immortelle that catched my interest. It seemed an interesting evolution but, unfortunately the accord doesn't bloom and the helichrysum is relegated to a side note leaving the fragrance with a thin green woody vibe which is not bad yet extremely far from being interesting. The fragrance is pervaded by a rose-y vibe throughout. There must be some rose in here. Maybe some incense....somewhere...

Good lasting and good projection.

Rating: 6/10

have not yet got past the smell of celery but its nice and warm. warm celery.

Peppery, spicy, leather and green with more citrus than I expected. This scent has almost a vintage vibe. Fairly tame from my viewpoint. I was surprised after all the hype from this company about the hyper-sexual nature of their fragrances. It's not there in this scent, that's for sure. It's nice, but just above average I would say.