I Am Trash : Les Fleurs du Déchet
Etat Libre d'Orange (2018)

Starts with a soft, fruity smell combined with clean laundry musks. Feels unisex. I get hints of apple, citrus and strawberry from the fruit notes. Iso e super is very apparent. The strawberry note takes over as it dries down.

Besides the louder opening, projection is just average, which is still good for situations where you don't want to be a projection bomb. Decent longevity, should get you through most of a workday.

I Am Trash is quite something. It’s a slightly tarter version of Light Blue for women, reminiscent of more affordable fragrances but with a balanced and well-executed composition. It’s not too sour, sweet, or woody, and it avoids smelling cheap. If you’re looking for a tangy green apple scent, give this a try. It’s a refreshing break from all the sweet cotton candy and BR540-like fragrances on the market. This is a cheerful scent, great for summer, but with its tartness, you could wear it year-round and even make it your signature scent. I’d recommend picking it up from discounters. I've always wanted a stronger, more intense version of Light Blue, and this fits the bill perfectly. I just love the apple and crispness in this scent.

This is one my favourites from the brand.

TLDR The woody notes and Iso E Super keep the Apple from reading too adolescent.

As a teen in the 90s, my signature scent was BBW Country Apple. Now, as an adult, I have a hard time shaking the association between fruity or shampoo-y, apple scents and essentially, being a child. The woods in I Am Trash really round out the scent out and keep it from reading too juvenile.
I find it light and fresh enough for school, work and warmer months. Then, the woods give it enough warmth and body to make it through autumn.

Have this sample in my sample tune. I Am Trash kind of sounds like a turn off, I was delighted to find out it was very floral, roses, apples and more. I tested this on several times, I liked it several times. It doesn't have a long longevity or sillage. That's something to consider since the cost is moderately high and you will have to reapply. Would I purchase this perfume? Yes I think that I would. And telling friends the name...wouldn't that put them on their heads spinning for a moment? LOL!

UPDATE 10-8-2021: I went for the full bottle puchase and I love this fragrance! Often I'm asked what I'm wearing. I happily reply "I Am Trash". And as I suspected people look as me puzzled. :>)
Next full bottle from EDLO is La Fin Du Monde. It is often sold out on the EDLO website.

I get a very sweet and juicy apple, and then something floral in the background. Later it becomes even more sweet, like the background florals turned into some more overripe fruit. Rotten fruit? Nah, probably not rotten, just close to it, but still good. Feels a bit like a fruity body spray from The Body Shop, but with some more funkiness underneath which makes it interesting. Fun and pretty scent, but not for me.

Even before I received a sample of this, I loved the concept of the perfume - an entreaty to our better selves to find the beauty in the stuff we usually throw away or regard as waste. The scent ‘upcycles' waste materials left over from the process of making a perfume; wood pulp, orange peel, and so on. It made sense to me that Givaudan, the Swiss flavor and aroma giant, would be involved, since the company has all the waste materials required. Ogilvy, one of the world's biggest advertizing brands, was also on board, producing (I presume) the visually stunning video that accompanied the PR launch of the perfume.

Really, nothing in the marketing campaign for I Am Trash can be faulted: the video is compulsively watchable, with its rotting fruits and imploding vegetables, and the brand copy is peppered with gems such as this plea from Etienne de Swardt “So before it's too late, let us (s)pray to the god of waste, our dear lord of leftovers”. Ha! He sounds like he might have kids.

It's just that, how can I put this delicately, well, the perfume itself is nowhere near as interesting as its premise. The edgy reputation of Etat Libre d'Orange, the video, the brand copy – they all set you up for an experience that just ain't delivered. I Am Trash smells exactly like those strawberry and apple-scented animal soaps The Body Shop used to sell in the 1980's and 1990's, stretched over a soapy Iso E Super base. And that's all, folks. Nothing more to see here. The perfect fruity floral, perhaps, for the Tinder generation, entirely used to not getting exactly what's been advertized.