Definition of true love
Some of us have known it, others have yet to experience it, but we are all waiting or looking for it. It will come.
True love is an eternal beginning again.
On the pillow, we leave our signature, the bare skin effect of Orcanox, the undress of amber woods and patchouli.
We soar, intoxicated, high on rum, infused with vanilla and cocoa. Full of that body, the feeling we want to devour.
From our first morning of buttered bread and orange blossom, savored in the laurels of yesterday.
Words fail us, but our souls speak to each other in complete transparency.
This is a home, a haven, a shelter.
"I often have this strange, penetrating dream,” we whisper in the warm, enveloping caramel arms of benzoin and the sweet, ripe fruitiness of davana.
Some of us have known it, others have yet to experience it, but we are all waiting or looking for it. It will come.
"When Etienne de Swardt created his house of perfume in 2006, it was only right and natural for him to give it this name, to honor his birthplace and what it represents.
In South Africa, Etat Libre d’Orange, the Orange Free State, was an autonomous sovereign republic which declared independence from British rule in 1854. Etat Libre d’Orange is a declaration of this independence. Etienne formed his own house with the idea of starting a revolution. He wanted to create a challenging perfumery, to emancipate juices from traditional restrictions. He envisioned perfumes that were furiously liberated, dangerously endearing. Flamboyant, excessive, perfect. Sometimes scandalous, always delicious. Perfumes for life and love and making love."