Tilda Swinton Like This

I see a lot of people find this scent very familiar and a bit nostalgic smelling, due to the pumpkin pie and kitchen vibe. And I can totally see that, but since I'm from Norway (a country that has no long pumpkin pie traditions) I don't get that familiar/nostalgic feeling when smelling that kind of scent. It does smell like a kitchen though. But more of a slightly exotic and different kind of kitchen than I'm familiar with. And since I've baked pumpkin pie myself a couple of years ago, it kind of smells like a modern, inventive and original kitchen to me. The scent still does have a more classic vibe to it, and it does feel familiar to me as well. I guess it has to do with the combination of pumpkin and tangerine. To my nose that combination of notes creates a smell that makes me think of my grandmother, who used to make big glass jars of conserved fruits from our garden when I was a little girl. This scent has that warm, syrupy and sour fruity smell that fills the kitchen when berries and fruits are being cooked with sugar, spices and water and poored into glass jars for storage. I can also detect a smell of something baking in the oven in this perfume. It smells a bit salty and buttery, and like a pie crust, or a bread maybe, that is really crisp, maybe even a bit burnt. I guess that comes from the immortelle flower. Between the sweet and sour fruit, and that baked smell, Like This also has a very clean vibe. Like an old fashioned newly cleand kitchen. It's like a window is open, to let all the cooking fumes out, and at the same time it brings a freshness to all the smells of fruit, spices and baked goods, while higlighting the smell of a kitchen that has just been cleaned. This is definitely an autumn kind of smell. It reminds me of late september, and the time and traditions around autumn equinox. Sillage is medium and longevity is pretty good. I get about 8-10 hours out of this one. In the drydown the sour sweetness is gone, and I'm left with a warm, buttery bread smell. It feels really comforting. It smells safe and nice, and at the same time it kind of surprises me. There's a interesting contrast in this perfume. It smells both very tradtional and modern, very much like home, and yet exotic. I like that a lot! I really like this one. It's interesting, evocative and smells like no other perfume I've tried so far. I think I might purchase a bottle.

This is such an interesting fragrance. I don't own anything else like it, and haven't ever smelled anything like it. I think the reviews are so mixed (and so interesting to read) because some people are anosmic to some musks (weird right?), and this one is definitely musk-heavy. It’s there, doing some fairly heavy lifting, but you don't experience the musk like that. On skin, it's very much the ultimate but seldom credited blender of everything else. This perfume is a total mood ring. On me, it smells like green pumpkin, just baked bread, and a very green vanilla musk. On a friend, it comes across as a spiced, ginger tea. When I spray it on my pillow, the musk stands out. Everything else is there too, but it feels greener and more outdoorsy, I can get some of the garden. For me, this perfume is incredibly comforting, yet sweet and sexy. It feels like your cozy, warm home where your family comes over, and you put a flower in a vase before, and then do the dishes after you have dinner parties with friends. But it’s also the kind of scent where you chase your partner around the house and maybe bite their neck, and utilise kitchen counters beyond food prep. Then you curl up on the sofa with a cashmere blanket you got for Christmas and watch your favourite movie. It’s evocative, cosy, and feels like a warm hug, but also a sexy hug with a safe, familiar lover who makes you soup when you've a cold. Well thats what I thought until I read the kitchen witch review and now I think it smells like that instead! Anyhow, I still think it’s a good scent for the soul and has been my most worn perfume for years. (I’ve gone through about a bottle a year for 13 or so years). I would recommend, except I don't want you to wear it. ITS MINE.

This is my first fragrance from the E'tat Libre D'Orange line up, so I'm not familiar with how their blends usually open nor their performance. This review is based upon a blind skin test experience. I was absolutely delighted by the end result. I reviewed the scent pyramid before showering and applying. I was expecting something a skosh sweeter when considering the scent pyramid. The citrus of the tangerine and the dull sweet of pumpkin had me anticipating a softer touch. So much so, that I applied a Orange Nectar and Cashmere lotion prior to applying the fragrance. Upon opening, I was immediately forced to reconcile my expectations with reality. On my skin, Like This leans into the vetiver and ginger with unyielding confidence. It pushed the boundaries of my usual fragrance habits by taking me away from a floral gourmand, and exceeded expectations. As the scent nestled into a comfortable dry down, the vetiver, ginger, and musk blend beautifully into a nuanced, "peppery" foundation. This forms a sort of vegetal leaning bed for the pumpkin to lazily, delicately reach its vines outward. The pumpkin note is just shy of being photorealistic. Lacking any sugar or additive, it feels as though you are smelling the exterior of the pumpkin or potentially its rind. This scent does not resort to the safety of an overripe, pulpy pumpkin with a slightly sweet note. Rather, it protests leaning into a gendered scent, and stands firmly in its androgyny. It is a fantastic scent to test your boundaries as a fragrance enthusiast.

This is the type of perfume that is easy to reach for when you don't feel like a strong presence of fragrance, but still want to wear something & smell good. It is a light woody fragrance with spicy, sweet & gourmand touches - but not too much of any one thing. It's not meant to overwhelm... It can be worn anytime of day or year imo. It is special for being so nondescript. It is my kind of "skin scent" even though it isn't really a skin scent. I've been sampling a lot, looking for one of these types of fragrances and this is definitely in the running. It doesn't hurt that it can be bought on the gray market for about $60/3.4 FL OZ either. And I like this scent more than the other $125-$200 fragrances that are also high on the list. This fragrance house has a knack for making these types of scents really well - they have floral versions... more gourmand-leaning, and very spicy ones, etc - that can easily be worn and not overwhelm. Well-blended types of formulations. I currently have 2 on my wish list and still contemplating on a few more. Fat Electrician & The Ghost In The Shell are the 2 I will definitely be getting a full-size bottle of. And this will probably be my 3rd. This house is worth sampling, if you want niche and different, but also pleasant and easy to reach for... many of them are Unisex too.

it's incredible how this fragrance smells like nothing else i've ever smelled before but also conjures such vivid imagery of a specific vibe/person..... whenever i wear it, i always picture the most gentle kitchen witch, enveloped in a warm blanket of her own inner world. she loves baking pies, tending to her herb garden, woodworking, and making tinctures from scratch. her home is filled with odd trinkets, gorgeous antique furniture, vintage rugs. old books on alchemy, magick, and the history of the world line her living room walls like it's the damn hogwarts library. real talk, i actually know this girl irl and i have a bit of a crush lol... she is precious, charming, and quite unique..... like this ꒰⑅ᴗ༚ᴗ꒱˖♡ side note: i wore this to see pedro almodóvar's the room next door, a quiet, moving film featuring tilda swinton herself and julianne moore. my partner and i were the only ones in the theater (saw it on a whim), and the intimacy of that moment made the experience feel almost sacred. despite the film's sadness, it felt deeply human: gentle, sincere, and full of warmth. that's exactly how this fragrance wears on me. it's comforting without being cloying, nostalgic without melancholy. it simultaneously smells like solitude and connection, like a hand on your shoulder when you need it most.

Like This paints a beautiful picture of an early autumn day. This is the smell of the seasons changing, when summer is ending and you feel a chilly breeze. Even though it is cold and you are wearing a thin jean-jacket it still smells of the last summer flowers and grass. This is a comforting hug, a scent that makes you feel cozy and secure. This perfume has a sharp citrus-y opening, it smells yellow if that makes sense? It is kind of aldehydic – clean, soapy and musky. Something in this composition smells herbal, fresh, minty and ginger-y. It can also remind me of an expensive home fragrance, those fragrance sticks :-) I don’t pick up on the pumpkin, but I can’t say that I have ever smelled something distinctive from a pumpkin so that may be why. In the dry-down it turns spicier than I anticipated. It is dry and warm, like dry grass, or like something newly built with wood. The musc is still prominent, but it is colder and blends in with a rose smell, like a fresh rose water spritz. I love how this plays out, and tells a story on my skin, and the longevity is up to 12 hours on my skin. Definitely worth a full sized bottle for me.

Someone please explain why this smells like the beach to me. I was anticipating something incredibly autumnal— and it’s not that at all. It’s CLEAN and FRESH. Mainly getting the citrus and heliotrope, but the other florals dance in and out, too. Not love at first sniff, but like for sure. I can see why this is a signature scent for some. Cozy and feminine. ETA: After 2 decants I am fully obsessed. This is womanly tenderness in a bottle. It’s maternal and cozy, and sexy in its groundedness. It’s the softness of skin, and a loving embrace. I remain baffled by it being categorized as an autumnal scent— transitional to be sure, but autumnal? Nah. I think people see the note listing and simply can’t uncouple “pumpkin” from PSL. Close your eyes and smell this — the mandarin, the ginger, the freaking magical immortelle, and the heliotrope! The heliotrope just envelops this scent in the most marvelous way. And the vetyver! Jesus, it’s bliss. The pumpkin is there, but only in so far as it offers a starchy, vegetal whisper in the background, helping this to lean ever so slightly gourmand. GORGEOUS.

It's morning in October. The leaves outside are red, orange, and yellow. Sunlight starts entering your kitchen window, and hits your freshly carved jack o' lantern that's sitting on the window sill. The banana bread you baked last night has now cooled, but the remnant scent of it baking is still lingering in the air. You brew some tea, and contemplate folding the clean laundry that's sitting there in its basket. You're cozy, you're warm, you have the time to sit in this moment, to relish in it. Your lover floats down from the bedroom, kissing your forehead, your temple, your neck. You're flush with comfort. Nostalgia hits you, and there's nowhere else you'd rather be but in your own home. I'm in love with this perfume, and I don't say that lightly. It's evocative, it's comforting, it's familiar, it's sexy. It's just as much a "homemade bread" scent as it is a "jumping into bed with your lover" scent. It's sophisticated, it's intimate, it's sentimental, and it completely stands out as one of the best perfumes I have ever sampled. This is full bottle worthy.

It smells like the memory of a pumpkin chiffon pie baking, while you do laundry. Not super present, but a little bit fluffy. Somehow it is more of a super early spring scent to me rather than fall. 6-12 hours of a very light scent cloud on me. The mood reminds me of Coffee Break or Princess a little bit. There is something gently gourmand yet uplifting. (Not saying these smell the same or even similar!) It is positive day-time comfort rather than night-time comfort, if that makes sense. I am going to full bottle it because it is pleasant, inexpensive, and fits a niche, but it isn't my favorite though probably my favorite from ELDO. Update: This has really grown on me. I ordered a travel size, but as I was waiting on the travel size, I saw a deal on a full bottle, so I got it. It really does fit a niche and I found myself using up the sample. I like to wear woody and aromatic scents to work, but will add this to my day time fall rotation or even cozy before bedtime scent. Changing from a like to a love!

Love. It is one of a kind. unexpected, bold, and man do i love it! With the notes here, don't mistake it for a typical pumpkin spice latte scent. It is not pumpkin spice, it is the pumpkin itself. It is a mellow, squashy pumpkin note, like scooping out the pulpy insides with your bare hands, messy yet clean, earthy yet warm. It is almost reminiscent of Thai food. Specifically a mellow, cozy curry soup. But it’s not too foody. It does make me a little hungry, but it doesn’t ever smell exactly like food. In an office, it’s perfect and intimate and wearable. However, when i was in a crowded bar, it fades into the background entirely. Interestingly, I could smell it on myself when I was outside. This isn’t a traditionally pretty scent, but is is very pretty indeed. It is feminine, spunky, confident, lighthearted, and playful. It’s a scent that lingers in the mind, even when it disappears from the skin. It makes me feel young and carefree, infinitely confident like I could take on the world.

A potent, complex, somewhat challenging scent. It has the spicy, sweet warmth of autumnal baking, mixed with the mulchy earthiness of leaf rot, and the slight medicinal tang of a tincture. Texturally, it has a really distinctive, fizzy-fuzzy warmth, but beneath that is an almost balsamic resinousness that makes me think of thick tree pitch. It's cozy, but strange. Like going to visit your ambiguously witchy, cottage-dwelling aunt for Samhain. She's all no-nonsense when you arrive, busy with the work of preparing for winter; drying herbs and canning preserves. She feeds you up on earthy pumpkin soup and candied orange peel. You help her carry late-season vegetables from the garden to the root cellar. She holds her hand out for the pruning shears to liberate an overgrown kabocha from its stem, and your eyes catch on the scar that cuts across the width of her palm. It's been there for as long as you can remember, old and pale and deep—as though she swore an oath once, and meant it.

This perfume smells like a sunny autumn day. It ́s a little bit sweet and slightly citrusy, but it ́s heart is definitely made of herbs and spices. Some of the reviewers compared it to a kitchen ́s cabinet and I can only agree with that. It ́s exactly that that makes it smell so comforting and welcoming. Interesting, when I bought it in early September I think, it felt kind of soapy, now in November the soapiness is gone and it ́s really just warm and herbal, almost bright. If you love autumn like I do, I strongly recommend getting this perfume. I would say it ́s longevity and projection are moderate, but it does last for couple of hours and it ́s a really nice, yet unusual scent. But it ́s a sunny autumn day ́s perfume for sure... as I said, there is certain warmth to it and it feels nostalgic. For a cold rainy day, I would choose something different. :)

A loved one coos with excitement upon seeing you, wrapping you in a hug with slightly sweaty arms - soft tendrils of honey and ginger in her hair. You can smell a sweet potato pie in the oven with the windows flung open into early autumn air - still warm but just barely the idea of falling leaves in the near-future linger in a portal of possibilities. A song gently comes up on the radio that springs forth a memory of dancing in the kitchen as a child and so you dance again, swaying like wind, like the leaves, like the flow of life itself. My only singular complaint about Like This is that it doesn’t last longer. I think this is such a cool, unique fragrance. It is delicious and inviting but it is truly a WHISPER/completely vanished in an hour or less. I’d love a bottle if I can’t find anything with this resonance that lasts longer.

If you're an autumnal trad wife type who's looking for a pumpkin spice latte scent, keep moving. This isn't it (thank god)! This perfume is so addictive to me. I don't actually get much pumpkin, I don't think. I smell a lot of immortelle and soft skin musk. It reminds me of big spooning a loved one in a big clean bed with super nice sheets. Your loved one recently showered and shampooed their hair, then went to bed with their hair still damp. You can smell their warm scalp slowing drying their hair from the roots. IDK. I love it. I bought this at the ELDO store in Le Marais earlier this year. The sales associate was such a sweet person and chatted with me for a long time. I must admit, by the end of my visit I was totally nose blind, but chose this scent because I adore Tilda Swinton. So glad I did!

Soft and warming perfume, it’s kind of sweet, definitely react well on my skin and I get the creamy-pumpkiny side, settle more soft and musky. Also get the ginger, and I love it <3 This fit the autumn vibe, leaves falling, sipping on a coffee/tea cup in the afternoon. Matches perfectly when you get your first nice wool sweater out of the closet. I enjoy matching clothes (Red or orange sweater, dark pnts, my sweater dress, you got the picture !) and perfumes and i do have specific outfits that goes with this fragrance, so for me it's a win win. This perfume fits a very specific vibe and yeah, good juice, not for the year' round but i'm happy to spray myself with it when the time comes ! I'm very happy i bought a bottle of this one in 2023, but i should have settled with 50ml instead of the 100ml

I really love this. The pumpkin in this is so yummy, definitely a fresh, just carved Pumpkin that you picked up from a Pumpkin patch. But add tangerines, a little bit of whipped cream and a shot of musk. Halloween, FALL vibes. SNOOPY picked out the pumpkin for this perfume, it's the one from "The Perfect Pumpkin" I bet this perfume has maple syrup in it. It could probably be worn all the way up to Christmas. Buddy the ELF would wear this. Perfect for both him & her. It's warm and cozy, fresh and creamy. I don't pick up any rose and I love that about it, it's probably there but lingering in the background. The pumpkin is the star of the show. So beautiful. Not a gourmand but it's very delicious. Layer with YSL Black Opium (Le Parfum) trust me. BISOUS

Like This is not all that sweet, but it's soft enough to make you think something sweet is coming. It's an atmospheric scent, it feels like a small house with a cat lying in the warm spot on the sofa and there's warm lights and candles everywhere. The smell of pumpkin soup wafts through while the crisp outside air slips from the cracks in the window. I wasn't even that into this scent when I sampled it a few years back then something just turned within me last month and suddenly it felt like it's time. (How ominous is that?) And it was a lovely choice to take the plunge. I've been told that I smell like fall and like a comforting home. This on a cold day is just beautiful, and I find it layerable so I would layer it with a maple syrup oil I have.

The first spray begins with gentle warm spices, ginger and light citrusy notes. Sometimes I mostly get orange/tangerine notes over ginger — depending on the day or mood. This perfume gives oriental vibes, but not obnoxious nor loud. It transports you to a quiet, warm, cozy and dim lights. Like most ELdO perfumes, it sits close to skin — and better this way, as it’s also working with the skin’s chemistry. I personally wished the longevity and trail was stronger. « Like This » is unique, mystical and inviting. Warm and aromatic. I really enjoy this, but don’t see it fit my style. However I wished it was a home scent for the cozy cold days! ___ Projection, sillage, longevity : 6,5/10 Originality, presentation : 9,5/10 Quality, value : 8,5/10 8/10

This is not a feminine ... it's really more of a true androgenous frag! It's also bloody amazing is what it is!!! I have often regarded Tilda Swinton exactly that way ... amazingly androgenous ... especially her portrayal of Gabriel in the movie Constantine. I really don't get any pumpkin, but there is a touch of mustiness in the top that is very agreeable to my nose. Then straight into a beautiful melange of ginger, neroli, rose and soft soft musk. I bought it today ... totally astounding myself that I found not one, but two frags from this house that are celebrity scents (which I generally abhor), and two scents that don't remind me of each other at all ... as a lot of other ELd'O do. Very fruitful day at the fragrance shop!

I got a small decant of this, and right out of the bottle it smells kind of like sunscreen! Then there's something like a natural herbal bug spray I used to use - which was lemongrass and geranium - but that fades away. (I don't actually like the smell of geraniums but this was a nice note that blended well.) Then there's a waxy vanilla bean tone that I get, like a really good candle. Warm and light - 'Cozy' makes sense as a description for this. It's interesting how differently different people experience this! I got it because I wanted to try the 'real pumpkin / vegetable' scent but I can't pick up on that. It's not my usual kind of thing but it's very well-done and I'll probably wind up using the whole decant.