ユー オア サムワン ライク ユー｜あなたのような誰か

LA。天使の落ちた街。太陽と可能性に満ちた楽園。しかし遠い地から移住した一人の女性はこう言った。「LAはもっとも孤独な街」。そんなLA女性が日常につける、フレッシュで明るく、少し悲しい香り。

NOTE：非公開

賦香率：16%

パフューマー｜キャロリン・サバス

キーワード： ロサンゼルス。現代的。エンパワーメント。歓迎的。

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［【香水】理性のエッジに誘う危険な香りのジュース｜ETAT LIBRE D'ORANGE（エタ リーブル ド オランジェ）調香師エチエンヌさんが語る］ | YouTube NOSE SHOP Channel

トリビア：
・香りの構成を明らかにしないことで、つける人が香水をそれぞれの香りの集合としてではなく、全体として楽しんでもらえるようにしている。香水がどんな香りかではなく、どんな感覚がするかということが大事。

・香水の名前は、パフューマーと共に香水作りに取り組んだ小説家Chandler Burrの本の名前でもある。

・「ユー オア サムワン ライク ユーはすべての人を迎え入れる香水。不快にさせたり、不気味なものではない。時代を超越した素材をベースにした、現代的なクリエーション。LAの女性ーAnne Rosenbaum（小説の登場人物）のような女性を描いている。クールで歯切れよく、かつて異国人だったが今は現地人であり、ハリウッドの銀幕のドリームをみて育ったが、その物質主義的な機械などに触れたことはない。Anneは文学に親しみ、LAのダウンタウンを見下ろす丘の中にある彼女の家の庭を愛でている。
この香水はそのフレッシュで癖のない魅力で感性を活性化させる。単純に、つけるのに心地よい香水。」（パフューマー）

原産国：フランス
本国表記：YOU OR SOMEONE LIKE YOU
発売年：2017年
ブランド：ETAT LIBRE D'ORANGE（エタリーブルドオランジェ）

YOU OR SOMEONE LIKE YOU

NOTE｜
“The raw materials are completely irrelevant. The work is the work. If you need to know what it’s made of, don’t wear it; You is not for you.”
— Chandler Burr

Fresh
Los Angeles. In this, the city of fallen angels, fantasy rules.

In On the Road, Jack Kerouac wrote, “LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities.” It’s the city described by Woody Allen’s character in Annie Hall as the city where “the only cultural advantage is being able to make a right turn on a red light.”

But they come, the dreamers, for the sunshine and the possibilities, to this land of opportunity, where hope springs eternal. Whatever they’re searching for — happiness, love, money, fame — the temptations lure them deeper and deeper into this concrete paradise.

Does Los Angeles have a scent? It’s impossible to say. But Chandler Burr knows Los Angeles. And Chandler Burr knows perfume. So we decided to collaborate on a fragrance that an LA woman might wear. And we gave it the name of Chandler’s novel, set in Los Angeles.

And you dreamers, with your dreams — you might flourish, you might wither, but you don’t give up. You keep coming, or you think about coming, and sometimes you stay.

Because someday, someone just might be looking for you, pointing at you, wanting you. Or someone like you.

“A few years ago I wrote a novel called You Or Someone Like You set in Los Angeles. Its central character is a woman, Anne Rosenbaum, who lives in the Hollywood Hills with her husband, Howard, a movie studio executive. Like so many of the homes up the fantastical curves and canyons of the Hills they look down on LA’s Downtown skyscrapers and the concrete ribbon of the 101 freeway, across Mid-Wilshire and Robertson, the glass towers of Century City, and, on clear days, over the 405 to Santa Monica and the placid, blue Pacific. And always the palm trees, imported and planted in LA in the early 20th century, ‘just as I am an import,’ Anne observes, ‘now indigenous.’ Anne is English, born in Hammersmith, London.

“As many have observed, Los Angeles is not a city. It is a state of mind. A strange amalgam of places and languages. Los Angeles is rivers of cement highways and infinite strips of asphalt, traffic, and despite or because of it all one of the most breathtakingly beautiful places on earth, a natural beauty made by nature and molded by people, cobalt sky and the greens and tans of the desert parks, ocean fog, the white and delicate pale yellow jasmine and honeysuckle flowers that grow up parking signs reading ‘Permit Parking Only Violators Will Be Towed.’

“This scent is very specific. When Etienne de Swardt approached me about creative directing a fragrance whose name would be the title of my novel, I told my perfumer, Caroline Sabas, that we were creating the fragrance Anne would wear. She is also very specific. Coolly crisply English, covered in but untouched by the silver, materialistic movie industry, literary, somewhat removed.

“You Or Someone Like You is not the ‘scent of LA’ or ‘the smell of the Hollywood Hills captured.’ It is not one of those olfactory synecdoches. It is, on the other hand, stylistically and in its technical construction what a Los Angeles woman would wear in my view. Caroline and I discussed this at each step during the creation process. It is contemporary, 21st century. It is LA, whatever that means, though in part it means the norms a scent would follow in a meeting at one of the agencies near Wilshire, at a studio, at a lunch in Bel Air or dinner off Beverly Drive. (The raw materials are completely irrelevant. The work is the work. If you need to know what it’s made of, don’t wear it; You is not for you.)

“My fictional Anne wears it; so presumably do thousands of other women. It represents her only in the way all such choices represent us. What it will be to you is for you to decide, obviously.”

— Chandler Burr

You or Someone Like You is a welcoming fragrance: neither off-putting nor strange. It is a contemporary creation built around timeless materials.

It embodies the women of LA — someone like Anne Rosenbaum: cool and crisp; once foreign but now indigenous; very exposed to Hollywood’s silver screen dreams yet untouched by its materialistic machinery. Anne finds comfort in literature, and the garden of her home, which nestles in the hills overlooking downtown LA.

The scent represents her only in the way all such choices represent us. It can be concrete, like a beautiful green rose. Yet, it can be abstract, just like an Erik Satie composition for it is a puzzle so mysterious that it is difficult to unravel.

The perfume invigorates the senses with its fresh, inviting appeal. One feels good wearing it.

— The Perfumer

Ingredients｜Alcohol Denat., Parfum (Fragrance), Aqua (Water), Limonene, Linalool, Citronellol, Geraniol, Citral, Eugenol, Methyl 2-Octynoate.