Perfume house · France · Since 2006

Etat Libre d'Orange

FranceSay it ay-TAH LEE-bruh doh-RAHNZH · French for 'Orange Free State', the former Boer republic in what is now South Africa

Provocative Paris perfumes with ironic names, composed by outside perfumers given free rein; best known for Sécrétions Magnifiques, built on the smells of the body.

Etienne de Swardt, who had written perfume concepts at Givenchy, founded Etat Libre d'Orange in Paris in 2006 and gave perfumers free rein. He named it after the Orange Free State of his native South Africa, and still runs it from rue des Archives.

Owned by

Editions des Sens SAS, Paris, independent and led by its founder; the public register read does not list its shareholders. Checked October 2026.

Where this comes from

The sentence · etatlibredorange.com · premiumbeautynews.comThe story · etatlibredorange.com · en.wikipedia.org · premiumbeautynews.com · recherche-entreprises.api.gouv.frOwned by · recherche-entreprises.api.gouv.fr · premiumbeautynews.comThe perfumes that made it · nstperfume.com · etatlibredorange.com

2 of the 37 perfumes its own site lists are here.

All 2 here

2 perfumes · the best known first

Uruk Chronicles2025 · Eau de Parfum · Unisex · Premium $$$Strawberry and tangerine with abelia over saffron, iris and a fruity rose, drying to tonka, cypriol and cedar.Hermann à mes côtés me paraissait une ombre2015 · Eau de Parfum · Unisex · Premium $$$Black pepper, galbanum and blackcurrant over rose-laced incense and damp stone, drying down to vetiver and patchouli.

Its perfumers here: Jordi Fernández, Quentin Bisch.