Encens et Bubblegum

Wooow I am so surprised at the general negative reception of Encens et bubblegum! It is on my top 5 love love from the Etat Libre d'Orange line and I find it totally unisex, playful and good smelling! Why so much hatred! Well, to start with, I admit this is not groundbreaking in terms of longevity and the smell is not, say, interesting or refined or... it is fruity bubblegum well blended with incense! As simple as that, but what a great scent indeed! It is fun (not something we find easily around...) and so cheerful! In my case I find it very sexual too! It makes you want to go and bite that juicy bubblegum! Girls and boys, don't miss this !! My only complaint is its lack of sillage after the first hour... it is there but too subdued. Still, I love this !

lovely fragrance, it's the union of two different world

In a country where chewing gum along with bubblegum was banned in my teenage years this brings nostalgic memories of my childhood. This is a great, sweet without being overkill candy type of sweet, bubbly scent. One can picture an adorable but completely daredevil child chewing gum defiantly while in Mass. Who grows up with a devil may care attitude, getting into loads of scrapes but climbing out again unscathed and unharmed, to the admiration of milling crowds. If I had to put a name to this scent I would say Amelia Earhart. This isn't just chewing gum flavoured perfume. It's much more than that hence my warbling above.I admire this scent for literally leaving me at a loss to describe it- to call it bubble gum is a definite injustice. To say it is complex is too much of an accolade. But whatever it is, this is not your run of the mill candy scents. This is a grown up scent if you wish to label it. The projection stays close the body despite several hefty spritzes but I'm not complaining. It lasted a good 24 hours on my pajamas. For sure, this scent is one that should be sampled and given a chance.

This opened on my skin with a blast of photorealistic bargain-basement peach-flavoured champagne. Just beyond the top notes there's an odd, plastic-sweetness that's nicer than it sounds. I don't get much incense here, or even a real bubblegum scent. Mostly just pleasant pink sweetness with a pale, wooden backbone that builds over time. Sillage is very soft - probably a good thing as the sweet aldehydes in this would become rather cloying at stronger concentrations. Unfortunately the mediocre sillage and short wear-time is a deal breaker for me. Still a 'like', but one I will like as a memory, not as a bottle. This review may sound quite negative, but I actually do really like what's here - I just wish there was a little more of it and that it hung around for a bit longer. Thanks muchly to Scorpiosheep for the sample!

i think it's one of those strange but likable scents: i expected a screaming bubblegum scent, but fortunately it is a quite pleasant and floral bubblegum. The incense smells very woody, giving the perfume a smokey character. on their official website they describe the fragrance as "provocative", for a woman who likes to manipulate men. I don't quite agree with this image: to me it's more like a joke, enjoyable experiment, creating a funky atmosphere. Very interesting fragrance overall. The power and longevity were moderate for me. Unfortunately, fragrance smells better on the paper than on my skin.

I mostly got incense and raspberry flavored bubble gum- just like it says on the label 😌 The incense note reminds me of that super cheap Money House incense you can buy in a local bodega or beauty supply store. There’s also a faint, sweaty skin-like musk note hiding in the background. I got a whopping 14 hours of wear time from just a few sprays, although it does become a skin scent after about seven hours. Even though I rated this as a good year-round scent, you’ll probably get the most out of this scent in warm weather. I liked this most out of all of the ELDO scents I’ve tried so far.

The opening is sweet realistic bubblegum but as soon as it settles on my skin the sweetness disappears. It becomes thick and smokey and very animalic. The musk is very intense and dirty and the touch of sweetness with the incense smells like when you sniff the inside of an incense stick packet. Its a very interesting scent and a must try.

I like the fruity first blast, but not the chemical toilet bowl cleaner smell that follows. Thankfully, it reverts back to the synthetic fruit after a bit. It's kind of fun and definitely unique.

Opens up as peach, paper, beeswax and some minutes later turns into freshly chewed bubble gum left under the bench in a church) also something there reminds me of mimosa a little bit. It's a pleasant, playful yet soft, mysticaly sweet scent. I would wear it for a walk in the park next to the river on a humid, warm summer evening with that one dear friend with whom i can fool around and laugh for a long time :))

Upon application of this strange creation, I immediately recognized sweet orange blossom, which is generally speaking a good thing in my perfume book. After a couple of minutes, the red fruit quality became very obvious, and then the scent pretty much dried down to lily of the valley and halitosis. That's right, not so much bubblegum as the breath of someone who would do well to reach for a toothbrush rather than a sugar-laden mint or stick of gum. I've never really understood breath mints such as Tic Tacs, to be honest. Don't they work for about two minutes and then the sugar starts breaking down and makes the breath smell worse than it did before? Maybe that's just me, but the very brief short-term benefit of sugary mints is not worth the much longer-term desire to go brush my teeth. But if I have the opportunity to brush my teeth, why not skip the sugary mint and go straight to the tooth brushing? In order for one's breath to stay fresh through the mint route, it seems that one would have to eat them continuously, no? But I digress. It's safe to say that Encens & Bubblegum is not my favorite ELdO scent. I don't smell any incense at all, actually, just lily of the valley (the version also prominent in Don't Get Me Wrong Baby, I Don't Swallow...) and halitosis. I admit that this creation did evoke memories of the gum that students used to stick under their desks.

Smells to me as if the bubblegum note wasn't present this would be a half decent fragrance. Sadly it's the dominance of this synthetic, sickly element & lack of finesse in the other notes which makes EaB a disappointment. I do smell a kind of faint frankincense vibe and something which smells like a couple of the CdG incense series in the opening then it goes downhill rapidly. I've toyed with the idea of a bubblegum smell and frankly I just don't want to smell like that. Lots of other fragrances achieve this effect by mistake (I imagine?) rather than actually embracing it the way this does. This is even more annoying than James Heeley Bubblegum chic which is at least powerful, a blessing in disguise that EaB doesn't last all that long. You have to take your hat off to Etat Libre d'Orange for thinking outside the box. It's just sometimes what's IN the box will do just fine. They've out quirked their own quirkiness threshold for me this time.

Out of the bottle, this smelled like bubblegum and cigarette smoke. Nothing else. Mind you, I LOVE the smell of tobacco. But this wasn't even tobacco. Just the stinky smoke part of a cigarette after it's been burned and perhaps tossed into an ashtray. I love incense but couldn't detect it on my skin either. Just the stinky smoke. I think this was a great idea on paper but, in reality, it fell apart. The incense note is a stinky type of smoke and not "true". The bubble gum is too strong and cheap. I couldn't even appreciate the sweetness of it. Besides, they didn't blend well. Like a psychotic dual personality, they seem to struggle for domination from the first spritz and all the way to the end. Not for me. Too bad... I was SO excited about this. :o( Glad to see it worked for others though. Just make sure you try it out first.

Sickening perfume, the only possibility of bubblegum being bubblegum-flavored children's medicine or perhaps the florescent pink industrial strength toilet bowl cleaner used in public restrooms. Harsh, I know, but it's the truth. This perfume smells synthetic to the point of potential toxicity. Nothing gourmand about it. The peach is too fake and sour to bear any semblance to the sweet pink bubblegum that we know and love. There is no incense to be found either. It's hard to really describe this perfume apart from expectations due to its name because it smells like a bunch of random notes thrown together with no rhyme or reason. It totally lacks personality, it's unbalanced and chaotic, and, frankly, it's terrible. Not recommended.

All I get from this is dried peaches in a plastic bag. Maybe a whiff of the incense aisle at the other end of the food co-op. It lasts as long as the 10-items-or-less line. I've seen Encens et Bubblegum compared to Gorilla Perfume's Tank Battle (from Lush). Nope. This stuff is a stale sugarless dime ball from a reproduction piggy-bank next to Tank Battle's fresh packet of Big League Chew. This is clove cigarette ash likened to Satya Sai Baba Nag Champa. Twice the price, half the sillage and none of the longevity. Doesn't compare at all.

I don't care what this develops to or how it progresses in its late phase, the over the top sweetness makes me dislike it: sugar and fruit and white flowers and too-soft a musk. I would not throw it away if given as a present because the hints of incense provide a bit of a saving grace but I'd consider selling on and it would probably end up as room or bathroom fragrance. Interesting but definitely not for me and no more than 4/10.

There is a faint smell of bubble gum at the beginning and nearly a tobacco smell, which is what might be giving it that slightly 'nightclub' feel (like an artificial baddness) Perhaps this is more suited to a younger wearer who could carry this sweet smell more naturally. I found after a while, it turned quite sour and smelled chemically. Unfortuanately, I sprayed it on my decollatage too, and can't get it off!

Again, a creation that deserves admiration for its originality, but not very wearable in my opinion. Sadly, the incense is probably missing from my vial, because I just smell a big blast of strawberry chewing gum (when the flavour is almost finished and the gum is about to be discarded) and some vanilla in the drydown. Sad little perfume.

This seems to react strongly to body chemistry and on me smells like drugstore hand lotion and hair care products. It could be interpreted as incense and bubblegum, once the suggestion is placed, but I think is more likely to be percieved as Garnier Fructis.

massive chunks of pink bubblegum, I can't detect anything else. The scent seems not evolving on my skin, just fading after some time.

Okay, this is part of my life. I was the child who was dragged to church against my will, pulled by the hair, silenced with a strawberry lollipop. The air smells of incense and admonition, but my mouth is filled with the sugary taste of rebellion. Incense & Bubblegum is just that: an olfactory short circuit between the sacred and the pop, between penance and candy. The incense, cold and solemn, envelops you like the silence imposed in the pews of a church. But then comes that shocking pink, chewy, childish fragrance of sweet disobedience. The heart of the perfume is a paradox: sacred and profane, smooth and sticky, serious and childish. There is a note of sacred resin, dark and smoky, reminiscent of polished wooden pews, the hushed voices of the faithful, Sunday clothes that prickle the skin. But above all this—almost in rebellion—hovers a fragrance of strawberry chewing gum, sugary, synthetic, impertinent. A sticky caress given with fingers dirty with glitter. Twisted nostalgia. Not the tender, melancholic kind, but a distorted, unresolved memory, made up of impositions and small acts of resistance. The smell of the little girl who wouldn't keep quiet, who blew pink bubbles while the priest was talking so she wouldn't have to listen to the sermons. The scent of a compressed but untamed childhood. In the end, the two souls slowly merge: the incense ceases to be frightening and the chewing gum loses some of its frivolity. What remains is a balsamic, vaguely vanilla-like base note.As if, for a moment, the sky and the candy stand had reached a compromise. It is the scent of those who have uncomfortable memories and do not want to sweeten them. Of those who chew strawberry while everyone else prays. An irreverent, nostalgic, and deeply human scent.