Rouge Avignon

Beautiful bright opening with Rose and a bite of cacao and truffle. Shortly after the raspberry comes out in its glory and envelopes the cacao sort of giving the raspberry a non candy like presence and infact all the other notes and woods help give it a body and realistic presence like No other reaspberry scent I’ve tried. But is it a raspberry scent? Yes more than it is anything else to me. It’s a dark one like a thick dark juice or milk shake with dark chocolate. The ambery base helping this with the truffle and cacao accentuating the bottom of the raspberry scent - all the ingredients in front of the big rose canvas joined together and bound by ylang ylang and a bit of Vetiver brightening the scent so as not to make it stale. This is where the note table and votes note table mislead whilst correct. The Rose is strong but really it’s more like it is the huge canvas that all the other ingredients are plastered over thickly. I get the churchy gothy vibe thing too - sort of almost has an incense thing too - ala Comme Des Garçon 2 or Slumberhouse Norne but for me this is an awesome stinker of a unique scent with no peer, a strange one that is not likely to offend but make you scratch your head as to whether you could wear it or not but wanting to always smell it. Gorgeous!

Oh man this fragrance is so insanely good I'm going to struggle to articulate myself in this review. Reminiscent of Exactly the right balance of rose in rose/oud fragrances like a mixture between By Killian Rose Oud and Incense Oud. Rouge Avignon is special stuff that sweet delicate rose and the perception of raspberry in the top notes is addictive! So magical and smells so similar to a few fragrances I've sniffed before but possibly better. The base is amber, sandalwood and I do get the slightly earthy tuber note too. Wonderful, perfect mixture of woody and sweet smells very very expensive but thankfully is from Phaedon and the price is very reasonable considering the quality. Great projection and longevity...Rouge Avignon is definitely on my radar. Update second try and I totally get loads of cacao and hinoki wood this fragrance is an absolute gem. My only minor criticism is that it's not quite as pungent and long lasting as some roses but hey you can't have everything...still adore it, what a scent!!!!

When I was a little girl I did not dream to be a princess as most of my playmates, I dreamed to be a witch. Not the ugly one, humpbacked and with a big nose, but a beautiful little witch with long red hair. I used to wear long velvet dresses with some golden ornaments, decorated my hair with wild red roses and ride my black horse in wild forest. In this dream I understood the language of birds, spoke with animals, and used the power of herbs, trees and stones for make magic. I was free, rebel and happy... When I smelt Rose Avignon, I smelt the perfume of this beautiful dream. It's a perfume of dark gothic rose, enriched with exotic hinoki wood, smoky vetiver and milky warm sandalwood, softened by sweet raspberry and cacao bud and rounded by black truffle. These notes are so well blended, it's not too dry and incensy, not too jammy sweet, not too rosy....Rouge Avignon enchanted me and took me back to my childhood's fairytale...

Phaedon Rouge Avignon seems to be a bit polarizing, but I definitely like a lot overall. As a man that enjoys rose and sweet fragrances, I enjoy RA as a sweet rose fragrance that, while perhaps smelling a little bit like a designer cheapie, is fresh and delightful and seems to occupy a much more space than many of the rose fragrances that are harshened by oud or tobacco, and while some of those are done masterfully, it's hit-or-miss. It's fairly unisex in my opinion--men that like rose might like this as I do might like this, but men and women in general might each find it interesting. Performance is very good on those, slightly above average for an EDP. Still, the pricing ($160 for 100ml, which seems to be Phaedon's standard for EDP) is a little prohibitive, as I see myself having limited uses for this, so I'd pursue a smaller quantity if at all. Still, very nice and a lovely wear. 8 out of 10

A fascinating and addictive fragrance. The rose hits you first followed by the earthy tuber and then the powdery cocoa, raspberry and wood notes. Its sort of a floral,fruity,wood bordering on gourmand lovely. It does remind me a little of Tom Ford Noir de Noir edp as it finally fades. Not quite a sweet. Like NdeN it's a sophisticated oriental with gourmand twist. Pure class. The rose and cocoa don't seem to hang around for long but then you get occasional whiffs of them when least expected. For most of the timeline its raspberry, woods with a touch of earth and green notes. It's very unisex. Moderate longevity and sillage. The more I've worn it the more I have loved it. It's firmly in my top 20 scents.