Release agent more particularly for an adhesive with an ethylene multi-block copolymer, the ethylene multi-block copolymer being composed of hard segment blocks, comprising at least 95% (w/w) ethylene and a comonomer, and of soft segment blocks, comprising ethylene and a comonomer, the fraction of comonomer in the soft segment blocks being between 10 and 20 mol %, and the fraction of the hard segment blocks in the ethylene multi-block copolymer being not more than 45% (w/w).