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... 💓

I have a few different personal interpretations of Fat Electrician, my immediate reaction was ‘This does not smell like the notes listed’. I’ve seen people describe this as a gourmand, and I can understand that if I smell it with that in mind, it’s not what comes to mind upon smelling it. There is a sweetness, but it’s so well-blended with the rest that it’s not the point. It smells dusty and haunting. It immediately made me think of these nightmares I have where I’m stuck in a sepia-toned haunted house. Despite this, it’s a comforting, warm scent. I heard someone say it’s like Christmas lights, which is funny because I think it smells a bit like Warm Bulb by Clue which DEFINITELY smells like 90s incandescent Christmas lights to me. However, this is more... metallic? I do not get the ‘sweat’ note that some people are getting unless I focus on it and try to deliberately interpret it that way, I never would have come up with that on my own. If you want a perfect visual for what this fragrance smells like to me, look up the artwork for the game ‘Machinarium’. I love this scent, it is very much a wearable art piece.

LOL ELDO! I can believe that this smells like a fat electrician someone - perhaps Antoine Maisondieu - encountered at some point in their life. The chemical-like quality of hot rubber (electrical wire, perhaps?) mixed with the sweaty and sweet body odor of a physical laborer. ELDO and Antoine were perfectly fine letting vetiver display its salty and swampy qualities in this fragrance, accented quite cleverly with the salty bitter-fruit smell of olive leaf. Skin-like sweetness is added with a lactonic note and vanilla. This perfume rides that very fine line between challenging fun, and challenging repulsion. I can't help but laugh when I smell it, but I also can't help but wonder if it's a good idea for me to be wearing this since I will likely smell like I went to the gym before work and didn't shower afterwards. ELDO has done it again - given us a far-left-field perfume that shows why they have been the go-to house for all things weird, quirky and off-the-wall for a long time. I love it... but I have no idea if I can wear it.

This fragrance made me cry. My dad died in 2019 after battling with a degenerative disease for six years and I miss him dearly. Fat Electrician, when mixed with my skin chemistry, smells identical to him. He was, in fact, an overweight Sicilian guy from New Jersey! But he wasn’t an electrician. I cannot stop sniffing my wrist because I’m in disbelief that this olfactory memory is attainable long after his body has been reduced to cremains. The sharp, burnt note that others have written about in their reviews (likely the olive leaf) smells, to me, exactly like his hair a few days after a perm. The sweetness of the whipped cream coupled with the sticky, savory marron glace somehow smells exactly like his skin when he gave me a hug??? Unbelievably accurate. I’m flabbergasted. I am so grateful to have discovered this scent. Do I want to smell like my dead dad regularly? No. Am I going to buy a full bottle so I can spray this on myself when I miss him? Absolutely.

Oh it is exactly what I was looking for. Opens with overheated electrical wires, rubbery and burnt, a a bit like the back of a dusty CRT TV with an emphasis on that plastic-y powdery scent. Then as it hits a midpoint the burnt smell fades to let the powdery smell develop and introduce a slightly sweet scent, almost shampoo like, then at the end it fades into a mild and warm almost vanilla like scent with a little bit of wood? By the time it's completely faded and gone in the morning you want to get that first shock of burnt wires back to repeat the addictive cycle. Unfortunately doesn't seem to endear others quite as much. Grandmother very politely described it as "...confusing, and loud. But I'm glad you seem to like it so much." I have learned not to spray it directly before getting into a car. Layers really well with Concrete by Comme des Garçons, they actually balance each other out a bit.

I have been wearing Fat Electrician for almost three years now, and I have just picked up my second 100ml bottle. This is one of those fragrances that manages to be both versatile and unusual at the same time. It has an offbeat character, yet it feels completely natural on the skin, almost like it was always meant to be there. When I first reviewed it three years ago, I summed it up simply: “It just makes sense.” That still holds true today. Despite its quirks, there is a balance in this fragrance that keeps me coming back to it again and again. it has a quiet originality that makes it stand apart from more predictable scents. For me, Fat Electrician has earned a permanent place in my collection — not because it is the loudest or the boldest, but because it strikes that rare chord of being both distinctive and deeply wearable.

سرراست‌ترین عطری که تا به حال تست کردم، به این معنی که همه‌ی نوت‌های لیست‌شده توی فرگرنتیکا رو به راحتی توش تشخیص می‌دید. چینش نوت‌ها فوق‌العاده عجیب و جالبه و سینرژی خیلی بالایی با هم دارن. اول یه ویتیور خاکی و خشک رو حس می‌کنید، بعدش عطر شروع می‌کنه به تغییر هویت دادن. با نوت‌های خامه و وانیل و بلوط شیرین(ترجمه دقیق Marron Glace رو نمی‌دونم) میشه عطر، با نوت خامه حس و حال کره‌ای و چرب می‌گیره و به خاطر نوت برگ زیتون این چربی بیشتر می‌شه و حس و حال گرم‌تر و صمیمی‌تری به عطر میده. نوت‌های Myrhh و opoponax رو نمی‌دونم چیه ولی تک تک نوت‌ها قابل تفکیک و شناسایی هستند و این قضیه که این عطر از یه عطر خشک و انعطاف‌ناپذیر و خشن به سمت کاملا مخالف طی مدت زمانی کم سوق پیدا می‌کنه باعث شده یکی از دوست‌داشتنی‌ترین عطرها تا الان برام باشه.

I've smoked cigarettes less addictive than this for real. It's sweet and grassy and nutty and also weird with some sharpness and rubbery and metallic notes that all combine to make something so unique and beautiful. On clothes it blossoms, on skin it settles and warms up but the sharpness keeps it fresh. Like a slight mustiness that's actually really pleasant and grassy and soothing. Like wires and a grassy backyard with lots of trees meets a kitchen where you're caramelizing sugar and roasting chestnuts and the last attempt at the sugar got a little burnt. Gotta test how this wears in a colder season, the more cozy aspects probably really shine through. I'm in love either way.

Complex, creamy, nutty sweetness with a green backdrop. So rich that together they come across as almost alcoholic. Cut through with a sharp and artificial rubber note - could be a dealbreaker for you, but I think it works beautifully to sharpen a perfume that'd otherwise be a pretty inoffensive gourmand. WOW this is good!!! Fascinating and complex without sacrificing wearability. Normally I'm a vetiver hater - to be real, I bought this sample on a whim because I have an unbelievably bad case of the hots for an overweight older guy in my life, and the perfume name reminded me of him - but this is just delicious. A very unwise purchase but not one I regret!!!

Sooo intriguing I love this a lot. It’s soft, sweet, nostalgic and mature. Very vetiver and whipped cream forward with some nuttiness to it, but what makes it stand out are the soft rubber and even church-like notes lingering in the background. They’re not overwhelming, but they add strong nostalgic character to the delicate profile of the fragrance. The girl whose recommendation I trusted before sampling said that this smells like turning on a 2000s dvd player while eating a whipped cream topped waffle inside a church, and as crazy as that sounds I totally see it! I really want to get my hands on a full bottle, this is beautiful

I love this so much. A beautiful spicy vetiver with the nutty sweetness from the chestnuts and cream. Divine. Reminiscent of Vetiver Tonka but less sweet. My mum used to put vetiver oil in a diffuser in my bedroom, this smells exactly like my bedroom when I was a teenager. Transports me to a different time. Personally I dont find the burnt electrical smell to be too abrasive but I could be biased due to how nostalgic this scent is for me. Selfishly I wish it had better longevity but it’s inoffensive enough to reapply throughout the day. Will definitely be copping a FB.

Like the cedar-lined drawers of your mother's estranged aunt. You only encounter her life once through a series of things that you retrieve from the home: a musky soap that's cracked with age, lipstick tubes with metallic splotches, and some mysterious sweet powder that is somehow on everything. This scent is like a patina that ripens in dark, dry closets between genuine fur coats bathed in cigarette smoke and old timey cellophane. Appealing enough to wear everyday without offending anyone, weird enough to crave it in a primal way that evades explanation.

The idea of a fat male electrician is certainly erotic to me so I don't buy into this bullshit about it telling the story of bygone eroticism. Mmm, fat electricians... I think it's entirely fitting that this is so edible given how yummy the namesake is to me. I think a lot of people also tend to let the name lead them into directions that aren't there. It's sharply sweet. I get nothing suggesting actual electricity or wiring or metal parts. Just pure, candy-coated, caramelly vetiver and a vanilla base. A gourmand nuke.

Wax. Not quite grease and far too sweet for lubricating wax or silicon, it reminds me of what you think crayons smell like. It's light, and not unpleasant, like if a vanilla based perfume spilled WD-40 all over itself. I actually sprayed some good ol' Water Displacement to compare and while it lacks the distinct chemical note, it has a lot of the same base sickly sweet scent. I'm sad I don't note any cigarette-esque smells, as I was hoping for a more offensive scent, while this is one I'd be unafraid to wear to work

8/10 Smells exactly like I thought it would. Candied hazelnut and vetiver. And yep, it smells like those colorful rubbery electrical wires in a hot dusty attic. Sebum-y and oily in an endearing way. Very nostalgic scent. I’m getting the image of hanging out after school in robotics club with your friends in high school or college. It’s a very FUN familiar scent and I will be wearing it when I want to have fun. Hopefully people around me can appreciate its weirdness. It’s like Encre Noire’s happy little brother!

whoever was involved in the creation of this one is kind of a genius but also kind of sick because how the fuck do you make gourmand burnt wires??? I'm really into this one not because i want to wear it but because it's such a campy and fucked up concept that it makes me really invested in it. this one is for all my weird people out there that want to smell confusing but also slightly nutty and sweet, it's a lot more strange that Ghost in the Shell to me. brb let me chew on some wires 7/10