The first time I visited Trove was when they had a soft launch around the end of October. I heard the news about them having Etat Libre D’Orange and I RAAAAN straight there to smell the popular scents. Needless to say, I was very happy that I did because they smelled so much more different from the ‘samples’ that I got online. The authenticity smelled soooooo good and it gave me a new layer of refreshing discovery.
TROVE
TROVE was born from the never-ending pursuit of self-exploration and personal curiosity. Allowing yourself the thrill of adventure and self-discovery, as you hold the key to unlocking a treasure TROVE of sensual pleasure, most delightful and rare.
At TROVE, you will find a curated collection of luxurious finds. Each trinket offers a glimpse into a most enchanting journey. Avant-garde fragrance to awaken lost memories. Modern elixirs to reinvigorate vitality ravaged by time. Multi-sensorial creations that let you be free to express your most true self.
Our journey starts and ends with you. Reveal a sense of wonder and joie de vivre as you dive into uncharted terrain, what will you unlock on your TROVE voyage?
The current collections in TROVE are Marchal Dessins et Créations Indépendantes (MDCI), Moresque, The House of Oud (THoO), Lesquendieu, and Etat Libre D’Orange. These are French and Italian brands that are the first to appear in Malaysia.
I’ve tried a handful of perfumes (even documented some in this list). The ones I’ve tried are namely: I Am Trash, You or Someone Like You, Exit the King, Remarkable People, Putain des Palaces, She was an Anamoly, Jasmin Et Cigarette, Dangerous Complicity, and “Don’t Get Me Wrong Baby, Yes I Do”. I think I’ve tried Soul of my Soul too but I can’t remember. Eventually, it came down to these four as my utmost favorite from this brand:
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I Am Trash - Les Fleurs du Déchet
50-100ml | Unisex
Created in partnership with the award-winning creative network Ogilvy Paris, ‘I Am Trash’ (or in French Les Fleurs Du Dechet) is the first luxury perfume created by Upcycling; by using the trashed ingredients to create something truly beautiful. More specifically, by using exhausted Rose petals, already distilled Sandalwood chips, and even leftover Apples from the food industry to create the most beautiful fruity, floral, and woody blend.
Main notes:
Apple Essence Upcycling, Rose Absolute Upcycling, Cedarwood Atlas Upcycling, Bitter Orange, Gariguette Strawberry
THE MOST WANTED SCENT MADE FROM THE UNWANTED
Les Fleurs du Déchet represents a passage to the adulthood of Sécrétions Magnifiques. It is a counter-revolution for Etat Libre d’Orange, still noisy and disruptive, but ultimately functional.
Givaudan, Ogilvy and Etat Libre d’Orange have created a three-fold company in the service of Mother Nature, to offer her a bouquet of forgiveness and let everyone know – loudly and quickly – that soon it will be too late.
Dear world: Do not throw anything away because at the bottom of our trash lies the fermented distillation of great love. The garbage trucks hold flowers that can still bleed, the peels and rinds that can still give. The noxious exhalations have honey notes that can merge with the earth. And there are so many floating concretions, the trash that is thrown into the sea, and the natural waste, the ambergris, mystical symbols, the attitudes of primitive tribes – these must now be reprocessed.
To paraphrase and distort Alan Paton: Cry, my beloved planet, for the unborn child; let him not love the earth too deeply, for it is slipping away.
So before it’s too late, let us (s)pray to the god of waste, our dear lord of leftovers.
End of sermon. This is a messianic fragrance (in natural spray, of course.)
— Etienne de Swardt
ALCOHOL DENAT., PARFUM (FRAGRANCE), AQUA (WATER), ETHYLHEXYL METHOXYCINNAMATE, BUTYL METHOXYDIBENZOYLMETHANE, ETHYLHEXYL SALICYLATE, LIMONENE, CITRONELLOL, CITRAL, GERANIOL, LINALOOL, BENZYL BENZOATE.
The ingredients in Etat Libre d’Orange products are updated regularly. Before using an Etat Libre d’Orange product, please read the list of ingredients on its packaging to ensure that the ingredients are suitable for your personal use.
When I first sniffed it, it was a quick surprise to me. I thought this perfume was about something edgy, something about being in a dumpster and smelling dirty (in a good way; yknow like Dirty from Lush). Then the floral scent hit me like flowers falling out of the skies with slices of apple and sandalwood (potpourri? HAHHA). It was pleasant, but it was also sad. It smelled like a rose with resiliency and determination to bloom in a sea of mundanity, a misfit. Someone with potential but buried amongst the dull. A lonely beauty who would eventually reach the desired life she’s been looking for. Unconditional love and full of trust. A warm embrace from genuine love and care.
Interestingly, the ingredients are sustainably obtained. They are upcycled. These unwanted materials ended up creating a wonderful blend that complements each other. Perhaps it can be even called a miracle. Who would’ve known that they bring such a harmonious scent?
This is my utmost favorite scent from Etat Libre D’Orange.
Ghost in the Shell
50-100ml | Unisex
From the bottom of the matter, rise up.
Main notes:
Top notes: Aqual™, Yuzu HE, Hexyl Acetate (MANE Biotech)
Heart notes: Jasmin absolute, Mugane™, Milky Skin Accord
Base notes: Moss Accord, Vinyl Gaiacol (MANE Biotech), Orcanox™
MERGER OF THE MATTER, BIRTH OF THE SPIRIT.
It is a night of pale moonlight, a night toward the end of the 20th century, a night when the old world is ending and the new one is beginning. It is a night when one trembles to boldly lower the sacred cross against the heart, to aid in the passage to fatherhood.
So, as a crucifix, that night I pick up Hyperion, a novel by Dan Simmons. This is a masterful science fiction saga that celebrates the infinite legend of the French Jesuit priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, who was a 20th-century researcher, paleontologist, theologian and philosopher.
And I read, pacified, until the reflections of the dawn, until the first golden rays of the East. I read the future of man, the celebration of transhumanism and the qualitative leap of humanity enhanced by machine. I have rarely loved a book this much, I have rarely loved a thinker this much.
I read that night what a man thought he saw in the tombs of time.
I am a lover of words in the service of materials when they come together to make poetry in the bottom of our bottles; thus, a few years ago, I bring up the work of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin to one of the last living vestiges of the triumphant 20th century, and I ask him: – “Then Teilhard de Chardin, precursor of genius?” A look, a silence and for the answer four unexpected words, four words whispered by my father: “GHOST IN THE SHELL”.
This is the act of birth that makes the spirit of perfume. The rest is poetry to live on the skin.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin died in 1955, but his spirit continues to travel. This fragrance extends it through an alliance with the Japanese artist Shirow Masamune to transcend the spirit of Earth.
By mixing biotech and natural materials, this perfume silently celebrates the wake of the future and also whispers of a day to come, by providence or chance, when humanity is reunited and organized. A day when all consciousness is summoned by the infosphere to constitute a superior being and pass from the inert to the living. As the molecules assemble to make the living, we will then make a qualitative leap that becomes the starting point and arrival of transhumanism.
This perfume is the future. It comes to us from the 20th century.
The Ghost in the Shell, a perfume that speaks of the human phenomenon and its paradox, a perfume to wear on oneself ab libitum, at one’s pleasure. A perfume as a propagation towards the other, that makes you the axis and the arrow of evolution; modern, indeed! From the bottom of the matter, rise up.
Etienne de Swardt
ALCOHOL DENAT., PARFUM (FRAGRANCE), AQUA (WATER), BUTYL METHOXYDIBENZOYLMETHANE, BENZYL SALICYLATE, ALPHA-ISOMETHYL IONONE, LIMONENE, COUMARIN, CITRONELLOL, LINALOOL, CITRAL, BENZYL ALCOHOL, ISOEUGENOL, BENZYL BENZOATE, GERANIOL.
The ingredients in Etat Libre d’Orange products are updated regularly. Before using an Etat Libre d’Orange product, please read the list of ingredients on its packaging to ensure that the ingredients are suitable for your personal use.
Ghost in the Shell is really syncing well with its name. It smelled so futuristic somehow. The main notes that people usually picked up would be milky and personally, I didn’t detect that. I should probably try it again but my impression of it is like a second-skin scent. It enhances your body scent but it does not smell like Le Labo Another 13 or Juliet Has A Gun Not A Perfume. Overall, I still enjoyed it.
It just reminds me of a quiet and observant lady hiding behind a pillar, observing someone to determine their next step.
You or Someone Like You
50-100ml | Unisex
Los Angeles. In this, the city of fallen angels, fantasy rules.
Main notes:
“The raw materials are completely irrelevant. The work is the work. If you need to know what it’s made of, don’t wear it; You is not for you.” — Chandler Burr
Top notes: Mint, Grapefruit, Bergamot, and Anise
Middle notes: Green Notes, Cassis, Rose, and Hedione
Base note: White Musk.
In On the Road, Jack Kerouac wrote, “LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities.” It’s the city described by Woody Allen’s character in Annie Hall as the city where “the only cultural advantage is being able to make a right turn on a red light.”
But they come, the dreamers, for the sunshine and the possibilities, to this land of opportunity, where hope springs eternal. Whatever they’re searching for — happiness, love, money, fame — the temptations lure them deeper and deeper into this concrete paradise.
Does Los Angeles have a scent? It’s impossible to say. But Chandler Burr knows Los Angeles. And Chandler Burr knows perfume. So we decided to collaborate on a fragrance that an LA woman might wear. And we gave it the name of Chandler’s novel, set in Los Angeles.
And you dreamers, with your dreams — you might flourish, you might wither, but you don’t give up. You keep coming, or you think about coming, and sometimes you stay.
Because someday, someone just might be looking for you, pointing at you, wanting you. Or someone like you.
“A few years ago I wrote a novel called You Or Someone Like You set in Los Angeles. Its central character is a woman, Anne Rosenbaum, who lives in the Hollywood Hills with her husband, Howard, a movie studio executive. Like so many of the homes up the fantastical curves and canyons of the Hills they look down on LA’s Downtown skyscrapers and the concrete ribbon of the 101 freeway, across Mid-Wilshire and Robertson, the glass towers of Century City, and, on clear days, over the 405 to Santa Monica and the placid, blue Pacific. And always the palm trees, imported and planted in LA in the early 20th century, ‘just as I am an import,’ Anne observes, ‘now indigenous.’ Anne is English, born in Hammersmith, London.
“As many have observed, Los Angeles is not a city. It is a state of mind. A strange amalgam of places and languages. Los Angeles is rivers of cement highways and infinite strips of asphalt, traffic, and despite or because of it all one of the most breathtakingly beautiful places on earth, a natural beauty made by nature and molded by people, cobalt sky and the greens and tans of the desert parks, ocean fog, the white and delicate pale yellow jasmine and honeysuckle flowers that grow up parking signs reading ‘Permit Parking Only Violators Will Be Towed.’
“This scent is very specific. When Etienne de Swardt approached me about creative directing a fragrance whose name would be the title of my novel, I told my perfumer, Caroline Sabas, that we were creating the fragrance Anne would wear. She is also very specific. Coolly crisply English, covered in but untouched by the silver, materialistic movie industry, literary, somewhat removed.
“You Or Someone Like You is not the ‘scent of LA’ or ‘the smell of the Hollywood Hills captured.’ It is not one of those olfactory synecdoches. It is, on the other hand, stylistically and in its technical construction what a Los Angeles woman would wear in my view. Caroline and I discussed this at each step during the creation process. It is contemporary, 21st century. It is LA, whatever that means, though in part it means the norms a scent would follow in a meeting at one of the agencies near Wilshire, at a studio, at a lunch in Bel Air or dinner off Beverly Drive. (The raw materials are completely irrelevant. The work is the work. If you need to know what it’s made of, don’t wear it; You is not for you.)
“My fictional Anne wears it; so presumably do thousands of other women. It represents her only in the way all such choices represent us. What it will be to you is for you to decide, obviously.”
— Chandler Burr
You or Someone Like You is a welcoming fragrance: neither off-putting nor strange. It is a contemporary creation built around timeless materials.
It embodies the women of LA — someone like Anne Rosenbaum: cool and crisp; once foreign but now indigenous; very exposed to Hollywood’s silver screen dreams yet untouched by its materialistic machinery. Anne finds comfort in literature, and the garden of her home, which nestles in the hills overlooking downtown LA.
The scent represents her only in the way all such choices represent us. It can be concrete, like a beautiful green rose. Yet, it can be abstract, just like an Erik Satie composition for it is a puzzle so mysterious that it is difficult to unravel.
The perfume invigorates the senses with its fresh, inviting appeal. One feels good wearing it.
— The Perfumer
ALCOHOL DENAT., PARFUM (FRAGRANCE), AQUA (WATER), LIMONENE, LINALOOL, CITRONELLOL, GERANIOL, CITRAL, EUGENOL, METHYL 2-OCTYNOATE.
The ingredients in Etat Libre d’Orange products are updated regularly. Before using an Etat Libre d’Orange product, please read the list of ingredients on its packaging to ensure that the ingredients are suitable for your personal use.
It feels like the warm yellow bright sunlight shining gently onto me with the air filled with a powdery scent that comes with a hint of soapy. Do you know what it reminds me of? Someone warm and familiar. Someone I used to care for and love with my full heart. Someone who’s right for me but came at the wrong time. We’ve parted ways but on good terms. We still love each other but not in the same way anymore. When we meet, I would greet them and wish them the best.
The musk sets in stronger later on but it’s not overwhelmingly unbearable. It’s a pleasant scent and I enjoyed it when it lingered around. It’s like, it feels great when it lasts, I wouldn’t mind having it again but I don’t need to have it all the time.
Don't Get Me Wrong Baby, Yes I Do
50-100ml | More Feminine
Do you know this adorable mademoiselle? She’s a girly-girl, clutching a bouquet of orange blossom and lily-of-the-valley, all sweetness and light and delicate grace.
Main notes:
Top notes: Aldehyde, Lily of the Valley, Pear
Heart notes: Peony, Jasmine, Orange Blossom
Base notes: Cedarwood, Cocoa Absolute, Musk
Like a ballerina, she pirouettes across the floor and into your heart. But this young dancer knows some jazzy moves. That pink-and-white charm conceals shades of gray. And when the innocence of fresh white flowers gives way to a hint of seductive patchouli, you know there’s more to her. Someday, her sparkle will turn into fire, and her gentle warmth will become passion. Oh, the sweet mystery of this precious child/woman! But all will be revealed when he asks her, “Do you..?” And she replies, “Yes, I do”.
ALCOHOL DENAT., PARFUM (FRAGRANCE), AQUA (WATER), BENZYL SALICYLATE, LINALOOL, GERANIOL, CITRONELLOL, HEXYL CINNAMAL.
The ingredients in Etat Libre d’Orange products are updated regularly. Before using an Etat Libre d’Orange product, please read the list of ingredients on its packaging to ensure that the ingredients are suitable for your personal use.
Think flower garden. You, holding a flower bouquet in a white dress and a long train attached to your head. You’re waiting for your cue to walk down the aisle. It’s the most memorable and enchanting day of your life and you’re so giddy, you just want to say “I DO!” right away. It’s a sweet scent but not overwhelming.
There’s a slight musk but it’s not strong. It’s really great for people who are into gently sweet scents.
If you are interested and you are heading to KL someday, do drop by Starhill KL for a quick look at TROVE along with their full collections! You might even see exclusive sets available in the store, waiting to go home with their new owner!
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The content in this blog post is based on authentic and genuine personal experience and it is written with full honesty. The item mentioned in this blog post are sponsored (I am Trash) and this review is not monetarily compensated. As usual, all of my reviews, verdicts and opinions are truthful and will not be influenced by the sponsors/collaborators.
