# Archives 69

**Brand:** Etat Libre d'Orange · **Perfumer:** Christine Nagel · **Year:** 2011
**Rating:** 3.8 / 5 (4 ratings) · **Popularity:** #71

## Notes
**Top:** Orange Mandarine, Pimento, Poivre rose
**Heart:** Encens, Orchidée, Prune
**Base:** Benjoin, Camphre, Musk, Patchouli

## About Etat Libre d'Orange
Etat Libre d'Orange est une marque de parfum audacieuse qui célèbre l'individualité et l'audace. Connue pour ses mélanges non conventionnels et ses noms provocateurs, chaque fragrance raconte une histoire unique, invitant ceux qui la portent à embrasser leur vraie personnalité et à se délecter de l'expression olfactive.

## Top reviews
- ★5/5 — "My friend's kid sniffed my arm and shouted "pizza!". I like the perfume, but I'll never ever be able to wear it again without thinking about that."
- ★4/5 — Spring, Fall — Casual, Office — "The more I sample ELDO fragrances, the more I come to realise that, although the house projects an image of producing work that is adventurous and edgy, their scents are actually really rather conventional, but given a mild twist (I haven't, to be fair, sampled the notorious Secretions Magnifique).

This image seems to infect reviews of their perfumes too. Case in point: Archives 69. There are so…"
- ★4/5 — Spring, Summer — "The opening is a beautiful almost realistic crystalline camphor. Not intense or overpowering, but more like a medicinal shampoo. There's a faint spicy and warmth from pepper, and a not too sweet, but juicy fruitiness.

Drying down the camphor softens and mixed with the musc becomes almost like a perfumed talc.

A little gentle spicy remains but hard to identify if that's from the incense, patchoul…"
- ★2/5 — Spring, Fall — "Archives 69 is an interesting scent from ELDO, one that I’m not entirely sure I enjoy. It combines the worlds of intense warm spices with aromatic green florals in a way which feels slightly off-putting in my opinion.  It features an overdose of pink pepper and fry paprika which I think is the element I can’t get past. A thick, smoky incense is combined with this overwhelmingly green and herbal no…"

## Related on Fragplace
- More by [Christine Nagel](https://fragplace.com/fr/perfumers/41/christine-nagel.md)
- More from [Etat Libre d'Orange](https://fragplace.com/fr/brands/178/etat-libre-dorange.md)

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