Etat Libre d'Orange · 2017 · Caroline Sabas

You or Someone Like You

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

The houseFor women

VersionEau de Parfum

Bergamot, grapefruit and anise over green rose, mint and wild grass, resting on clean white musk.

A shop’s page says

You’ll smell bergamot, anise, grapefruit, blackcurrant (cassis), Green Notes, Hedione, White Musk, garden rose, mint and wild grass.

More from Etat Libre d'Orange’s description

It also mentions Green rose, Rose and Herbs.

The shop’s page

Top noteswhen you spray it

Heartas it settles

Dry-downwhat stays

You or Someone Like You’s scent picture, a draft: bergamot, anise, grapefruit, blackcurrant, green notes, hedione (jasmine) drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

Top noteswhen you spray it

You or Someone Like You, top notes: Bergamot, Anise, Grapefruit, Blackcurrant, Green notes, Mint, Eucalyptus, Lemon, Bitter orange, Lavender

Heartas it settles

You or Someone Like You, heart: Hedione (jasmine), Rose

Dry-downwhat stays

You or Someone Like You, dry-down: White musk (Galaxolide), Patchouli, Iso E Super (pencil shavings on velvet)

What’s inside it

What a shop’s page names

BergamotAniseGrapefruitBlackcurrant (cassis)Hedione (jasmine)White MuskGarden roseMintWild grass

What the label names

29 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.

7 citrus10 herbs & lavender5 florals2 woods3 spices1 musks1 green

Citrus7

LimoneneLemon oilBergamot oilBitter orange oilCitralalpha-TerpineneTerpinolene

Herbs & lavender10

Eucalyptus oilSpearmint oilPineneLavender oilMentholCamphorLinalyl acetateCarvoneLinaloolTerpineol

Florals5

CitronellolDimethyl phenethyl acetateGeranyl acetateGeraniol (rose)Rose ketones

Woods2

Patchouli oilIso E Super (pencil shavings on velvet)

Spices3

beta-CaryophylleneEugenolIsoeugenyl acetate

Musks1

Galaxolide (musk)

Green1

Methyl 2-octynoate
2 more lines on the label, not there for the smell

Not for the smell2

AlcoholWater

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Our match of the notes

Shares its notes

Amor AmorCacharel · shares bergamot, grapefruit, blackcurrant (cassis), jasmine and 1 more
OrianaParfums de Marly · shares bergamot, grapefruit, blackcurrant (cassis), jasmine and 1 more$410 for 75 ml
Elysium Pour HommeRoja Parfums · shares bergamot, grapefruit, blackcurrant (cassis), jasmine and 1 more$380 for 100 ml · about twice You or Someone Like You’s about $185
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Matched by the notes each house names. A shared note is not a promise they smell alike.