Etat Libre d'Orange · 2025

Above the Waves

Premium$$$, 3 of 5
Etat Libre d'Orange asks about $185 for 100 ml
50 mlabout $123
100 mlabout $185

The houseUnisex

VersionEau de Parfum

Bergamot, cardamom and incense over green maté, black tea and rose, settling onto tonka, cedar and vetiver.

Etat Libre d'Orange says

You’ll smell bergamot, cardamom, incense, Green Maté, Ceylan Tea, rose, Tonka Bean, cedar and vetiver.

More from Etat Libre d'Orange’s description

It also mentions Tea (taiwanese oolong) and Ceylon black tea.

The house’s page

Top noteswhen you spray it

Heartas it settles

Dry-downwhat stays

Above the Waves’s scent picture, a draft: bergamot, cardamom, frankincense, mate, tea, rose drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

Top noteswhen you spray it

Above the Waves, top notes: Bergamot, Cardamom, Frankincense, Bitter orange

Heartas it settles

Above the Waves, heart: Mate, Tea, Rose

Dry-downwhat stays

Above the Waves, dry-down: Tonka (coumarin), Cedar, Vetiver, Virginia cedar, Patchouli, Galaxolide (musk), Iso E Super (pencil shavings on velvet)

What’s inside it

What the label names

20 scent ingredients on the label, familiar names first.

A label must name certain ingredients, most of them ones that can cause allergies; some houses print more. It is never the whole recipe.

5 citrus4 herbs & lavender3 florals3 woods1 sweet3 spices1 musks

4 more lines on the label: 1 not yet in Ingredients, 3 not there for the smell

Not in Ingredients yet1

Cymbopogon schoenanthus oil, not in Ingredients yet

Not for the smell3

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Our match of the notes

Shares its notes

Lyric WomanAmouage · shares bergamot, cardamom, frankincense, rose and 2 more$395 for 100 ml · about twice Above the Waves’s about $185
Opus XIV Royal TobaccoAmouage · shares bergamot, cardamom, frankincense, rose and 2 more$395 for 100 ml · about twice Above the Waves’s about $185
Musc NurāsanaMaison Crivelli · shares bergamot, cardamom, frankincense, rose and 1 moreabout $439 for 100 ml · about twice Above the Waves’s about $185
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Matched by the notes each house names. A shared note is not a promise they smell alike.