Etat Libre D’Orange Like This, Parfums de Marly Oajan and Kajal Perfumes Homme II image by Steven

Thanksgiving was the most important holiday of the year at my grandmother’s home. Her mother, mother-in-law, sons, daughters-in-laws, nieces, nephews, sister, grandchildren, and the family of her family and one year the mailman, everyone was welcome around her Thanksgiving table in Brooklyn. An immigrant, she was grateful to be American and had to learn how to  prepare a sweet potato pie and  how to figure out what the heck cranberry sauce was. Many of our readers and viewers are heading home for the Thanksgiving holiday; we hope you make it safely by plane, train, automobile or on foot.  For anyone who can’t be with your loved ones there would have been a place at my grandma’s ever-expanding tables for you. – Michelyn Camen

Steven Gavrielatos and Michelyn co-curated the “3 Thanksgiving perfumes you should be wearing”.

Etat Libre D’Orange Like This (Mathilde Bijaoui) 2010: How do you celebrate Thanksgiving? Like This…  Originally created for Tilda Swinton, Etat Libre D’Orange Like This is composed with ingredients that Swinton loved. Perfumer Mathilde Bijaoui wrote in her young perfumer article: “I decided to play around an “orange-colored” accord with various ingredients: carrot, ginger, pumpkin, mandarin, orange blossom, immortelle…”  Like This is a multihued orange with a bright burst of neroli and yellow mandarin at top, accompanied by pumpkin, ginger and maple syrup-like immortelle. One spritz and for me, it immediately evokes a Thanksgiving dessert table with candied clementines and pumpkin pie. While Tilda Swinton’s name is no longer on the bottle, she is there in spirit. -Michelyn Camen

Kajal Homme II (Chris Maurice & Rosendo Mateu) 2021: When I saw the “II” after Kajal Homme II, I thought it might be a flanker of  2015’s classic Kajal Homme. What they have in common are the perfumers (perfumers Chris Maurice and Rosendo Mateau, RIP). Kajal Homme II is a completely different fragrance. If you are looking for a Thanksgiving fragrance that is not sweet or foody, we recommend Kajal Homme II.  The aromatic opening of clary sage, rosemary and lavender add balance to heart of cloves, peach and cinnamon notes. The base of Virginia cedar wood is particularly elegant at the drydown –Michelyn Camen

Parfums de Marly Oajan (Shyamala Masiondieu) 2013: Parfums de Marly Oajan (WAJE-AHN) is a grownup gourmand which is perfect for Thanksgiving. Shyamala is one of my favorite perfumers because she always brings her signature international flair (Malaysian, Hong Kong, Grasse, Paris and the U.K.) to each of her many fragrances (to name a few Etat Libre D’Orange Charogne, Soul of My Soul, Ex Nihilo Atlas Fever Tom Ford F*ing Fabulous). On the Parfums de Marly site Oajan is listed as masculine, but don’t worry ladies it is truly unisex; an ambery warm perfume where honey and cinnamon are sprinkled on peachy osmanthus, reminding me of my great-grandmother’s version of struffoli (honeyballs) which she soaked in honey, cinnamon, and ground orange rind. Oajan is one Parfums de Marly I think deserves more attention and is perfect for Thanksgiving- -Michelyn Camen

Video Editor Steven Gavrielatos video review

We are grateful that all three brands are sponsoring thisThanksgiving Giveaway:

 EU, US, UK and Canada: Mille Mercis to our friends at Etat Libre D’Orange for a100 ml bottle of Like This

 EU, US, UK: With gratitude to Moe Khalef of Kajal Paris for a 100 ml bottle of Kajal Homme II

USA and Canada:  Many thanks to to Fine Fragrances Distribution and  Director Yvan Jacqueline for a 75 ml  bottle of Parfums de Marly Oajan 

Etat Libre D’Orange Like This, Parfums de Marly Oajan and Kajal Perfumes Homme II image by Steven

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