Fat Electrician Semi-Modern Vetiver

This smells like my old dog's vanilla scented rubber toys. Smells nostalgic, like a cloudy day at the dog park, throwing dirty squeaky toys across the field for my old dog Walter. Walter reminded me of an old man: he was a German Shorthaired Pointer who always walked with a little wobble, grew grey hair on his face not long into his life, and sighed whenever he laid down. I miss that guy. He had a little spot on the top of his head, and I'd always kiss it for good luck. I went with my father to put him down at 2 A.M. on February 22nd, 2024, and I had to go to school later that morning. It was my junior year of high school, and I was on heavy antidepressants. I wanted to feel something. I felt so numb, that I even wanted to feel sadness. Watching Walter die didn't make me feel sad. It was the fact that nobody knew I'd lost a chunk of my childhood, as if a clump of hair had fallen into my palms in the shower. Everyone's world just kept on spinning. When Walter died, he didn't turn cold and bloated like dead bodies do after months of lying around. He was still warm. He didn’t roll over on his side. He just had his head between his paws, and laid down with a sigh like he always did. Watching him get put down didn't help me get past the denial stage of grief. I felt like he was still somewhere, waiting for me to come find him, and inside a bottle of Fat Electrician may just be where he was lying in wait for my appearance. This is where he is now. He found me just a week before I left for college. As I’m in college now, I’m contemplating my entire life -- not in a depressed way obviously, but just observing. This is who I am, after all that I've experienced. I'm still that little girl who rambles about her interests and has lots of rules for how she lives her life. I'm still that little girl who likes quiet places where she can be in her world of imagination. I'm still that little girl who feels isolated from the world around her, as if she's looking at it through a snow globe. Fat Electrician symbolizes those dusty corners of my childhood that I didn't think to look at. The mundane, cloudy days at the dog park played a crucial role in teaching me to appreciate unconventional things that I find entertaining or intriguing. This smell isn't a dessert-like gourmand. It's a plasticky, artificial, warm, woody sweet. It's comforting. It does smell electric in a sense. Everyone can find a part of themselves in the memory this scent evokes. Edit: as I wear this more, I notice it doesn’t change it's scent profile at all as I wear it. I notice that after having perfumes for a while, my nose starts to pick up on things I haven’t smelled before. I smelled mint for a second, and then realized it was most likely the mint gum I had in my mouth. That's beside the point -- the performance of this fragrance really reminds me of By The Fireplace by Margiela. The same way Fireplace begins with an incredibly photorealistic burning wood scent, this opens up with a burnt rubber scent. It's beautiful. I’m also becoming more drawn to the creamy aspect of it. So beautiful and delightful. This layers perfectly with my Nivea vanilla lotion and cocoa butter body gel. I notice this doesn’t get a lot of compliments, probably due to the lack of projection. Perhaps if I layer it with something else, that may make it project a bit more. I'll look into that. Anyway ok whatever yeah yes I love it Scent profile: 10/10 , unique, nostalgic, comforting Longevity: 6/10 , would need regular reapplication throughout the day Sillage: 6/10 , need a couple sprays to project

Personal: 9.5/10 – Easily one of my favorite fragrances. Warm, dark, resinous, creamy vetiver with chestnut and vanilla. Gorgeous and addictive ON SKIN. Mass appeal: 7/10 – Dark vetiver is not for everyone, but the chestnut-vanilla creaminess softens it and makes it approachable. Performance: 8/10 – It's strong on my skin, but not loud enough to be cloying. Value: 7/10 – ELDO’s pricing is very fair for this level of quality and uniqueness. Uniqueness: 9/10 – Vetiver done in a creamy, gourmand-adjacent way? Absolutely unique, and executed to perfection. SCORE: 81/100 Full bottle buy? YES this needs to be in my collection. Blind buy? NO, it’s too weird on paper and too dark for some noses. Must be sampled and worn on skin. Recommend? YES, if you want to smell a truly unusual but wearable vetiver. Date night? YES, but only if your date appreciates darker, mysterious scents. It’s seductive in a brooding way. Not for warm weather, casual, or first dates. Office safe? NO, it’s too dark and rich for cubicle wear. Pros: One of the most unique vetivers ever. Creamy, resinous, nutty, and dark all at once. Wearable but still bold. Well worth sampling. Cons: Smells plasticky on paper. Too dark for some, and still polarizing if you don’t enjoy vetiver. Chestnut creaminess isn't for everyone. Fat Electrician is ELDO at their absolute best, a bit strange, definitely unique, but actually wearable and captivating. On paper, sampling it, it's plasticky, strange, and pretty unpleasant, but once you're wearing it, it'll morph into this deep, warm, gourmand-like vetiver that has a nutty, dark base, but rich warm vanilla and sweetness up top. It's addictive in a great way when I wear it, and it isn't too sugary and synthetic. It's on the fence between being a gourmand and an earthy, woody fragrance, and I've never smelled anything like it before. Again, this is ELDO in a way I think everyone should smell them. For those who find ELDO to be a frankly WEIRD brand, wear Fat Electrician, and maybe it'll change your mind. Review #100 in my fragrance journey – this fragrance I own as a decant

I love it. Every time I catch a whiff of vetiver in other fragrances, it immediately brings me back to this one. When I go back to smell this, it always smells exactly how I remember, and it is hard to forget. And yet, Fat Electrician is so hard to describe. I understand some people may associate it with cables and dust due to the promo images, but I believe the scent came first, with the name following. I don’t think it was made to smell like dusty cables in a warm office. It just happens to evoke that feeling, and evoke that feeling it does. My only concern here is that I am afraid that the more I come back to this scent that it will lose its charm. For now, it remains beautiful, unique, comforting, and woody. It feels fresh and clean without any soapiness, so I'd say it's a fragrance you would choose to feel clean and fresh without it being too obvious. It’s not a fragrance that brings up any specific memories for me, but rather one that I could see creating memories instead. Plus, it is consistent. I never sense it change, it's reliable and consistent every time I wear it, for as long as I wear it. If you're looking for an every-day clean scent without veering into soapy, this one is worth checking out. It’s unique, comforting, and reliably pleasant. There’s something about this scent that feels almost addictive. It might one day fill a quieter role in my collection, one that I can depend on to smell good without being attention-grabbing. I can easily see myself reaching for this when I’m unsure what to wear but still want to smell good. :)

This scent is a sad story a bottle, and I love it for that reason. If your imagination is piss poor and you need concepts explaining to you, then you will not understand the triumph that Fat Electrician is. The scent depicts a sombre person, well past his prime, slaving out his existence as a boring electrician, after being full of fantastic promise at school. He was the first one to snog a girl, and all of the boys wanted to be him. He was captain of the football team, but pressured by his parents to "get a trade" whilst also playing sport. He wanted to become a professional footballer; his looks and charisma would have made him tremendous, but unfortunately he just didn't quite have enough skill on the pitch to get signed by a professional team. In Fat Electrician, he is now 41, married to a dull woman, and he has 3 kids that are all little shits. He is incredibly depressed, but can't tell anyone about it for fear of appearing "unmasculine". He has a smell of faded beauty that hangs around him like a death sentence. And that precise scent is Fat Electrician. It is a work of pure genius. 10/10. Tells a beautiful story and exposes vetiver in a new way.

When I met my second big love in life, early this summer, I gave him a sample of this lovely perfume. We had only met once before, a couple of weeks earlier, but by the smell of his hugs, I had realized that I liked his feromones. And as he told me later: he had then told God: "just so you know it; she is mine..." So, I took a five hour journey to go visit him. I had already found out that he was a good man. I had got these samples as I bought something for myself, and I thought maybe this would suit his own scent of skin, as well as his personality. He is a bit older, and I too am older than I once was. He is a huntsman, has a dog, and is overall outdoorsy. He has gone bald, but has a well groomed beard, is well dressed but is not a snob. He has strong hands and muscles, and he is kind to me, as well as to people around him. He likes to help those who are in need. Well, it did not take long to find out, that he liked the perfume, and that I liked it on him, and that we belong together. He will sell his house and move the 400 kilometers to me. And I have bought a full size bottle of Fat Electrician for his Christmas gift... 💓