The picture to the left is not the one used for the Fat Electrician marketing, but as I'm in a silly mood, bum cracks it is. Speaking of silly, perhaps I'm just a grouch, but I do find a lot of the ELDO marketing a bit silly, bearing very little relation to the fragrances themselves. Having said that though, how many perfume ad campaigns actually do?
Fat Electrician is primarily a vetiver fragrance, one which evolves on a more oriental theme, with a nuttier, rather than grassy or earthy opening. It brings to mind Luten's Vetiver Oriental and Hermes Vetiver Tonka. The heart is still a fairly nutty, slightly sweet vetiver. As it dries down a smokiness creeps in, which might be a combination of opoponax and myrrh, but I don't really know. At the end of the day I feel slightly disappointed with Fat Electrician. It has received a lot of favourable reviews but I just thought it would be a lot edgier and possibly might bring something new to the vetiver genre. To my nose it comes across as slightly gentlemanly, a bit staid and stodgy really. It's not that it isn't a good fragrance, it is, but I was expecting more, given ELDO's reputation for innovation and I kept waiting for the twist, or weirdness, which didn't come. Perhaps this says more about my warped expectations rather than ELDO's skill, as this is a good quality vetiver fragrance, but I still think I'll stick with some of my other tried-and-tested vetivers.
In my (limited) ELdO experience, they all have the same dry down, which is disappointing to me.
ReplyDeleteI agree, there is a similarity to a lot of them later on. Putain de Palaces is quite good though, have you tried that? I didn't think I'd like it, but its a smutty little number!
ReplyDeleteI LOVE PdP - but probably because it reminds me of me! ;)
ReplyDeleteLOL - ahem, in that case I'd say it's an elegant and classy little number ;-)
ReplyDeleteahahahaa! did you read my review of it!? I have no problem with the word 'smutty' btw!
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