La Fin du Monde (Etat Libre d’Orange)

The perfume I’m pairing Dusty with smells like punk popcorn and drama. La Fin du Monde translates to The End of the World, and it opens with gunpowder and settles into a smoky-sweet carnival popcorn. Appropriate, because if there’s anything I’ve learned since 2015, it’s that the end of the world involves many popcorn eating gifs on the internet.

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Dusty’s last episode on RuPaul’s Drag Race was titled The Last Ball on Earth, and for this episode, each queen had to produce three separate runway looks, each keeping to the apocalyptic theme. A look inspired by “Martian Eleganza Extravaganza” had to be built on set, and to prepare for it, the queens grabbed materials from a table and made couture.

“Dusty is making a look out of everything dangerous,” noted fellow Season 10 drag queen Miz Cracker on her YouTube series Review with a Jew. This is true: as far as I can tell, Dusty constructed almost her entire look out of harsh metal netting, then coated everything in glitter:

This look didn’t fly with the judges, but in her final lip sync battle on the show, Dusty lost but was given credit by RuPaul for giving it her all. At the end of the lip sync, she feigned being electrocuted to the beat of Pound the Alarm, which is probably the best that a white queen lip syncing to Nicki Minaj can really do.

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There’s a metallic current running through La Fin du Monde, among the gunpowder and sweet popcorn. As a perfume, it can be challenging to wear, but it’s also fun as hell.

In the U.S., you can find a sample of Etat Libre d’Orange La Fin du Monde at Scent Bar if you live in L.A., or on LuckyScent if you don’t.