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.

On my skin, this is a jammy rose mixed with a clean, antiseptic oud. Oud is not listed in the notes, but this comes off to me as a medicinal oud a la Armani Prive Rose d'Arabie, with less oud and less strength (which is not a bad thing). I get a touch of bright raspberry with a jammy rose melding with the clean-washroom-type oud, no truffle or cacao sadly! Also smells nothing like Noir de Noir, there is no mossy or patchouli base contributing to a chypre style here.

This fragrance is so beautiful. It opens with a lovely raspberry and sweet floral smell. Then it gets kind of dark and incense-like as it dries down. The rose comes out in a smokey way - it reminds me of a wooden beaded rosary made with rose petals that I received as a gift from a friend who went to Italy. I can smell spices and woodiness. It’s all so delicate and nicely blended together. It’s very unique to me and smells very “cool” and pleasing.

So far my favorite rose based scent. Had a decant of this a good few years ago and used it through the Xmas period. Having been reminiscing about it, I got myself another decant to use through the winter, and oh man have I missed this. A gorgeous slightly jammy, dark, candy-like rose, that loses some of the sweetness as time goes on. For me, this is very comforting, perfectly unisex, and screams quality.

Raspberries nudged in between aromas of sandal, cocoa and rose in Rouge Avignon by Phaedon. All these smells merge into a fantasy tart which seems to have been baked with a recipie from Alice in Wonderland. A tangy easy going sandalwood perfume overall.

This is lovely. Fab raspberry opening, then a lot of incense. There is rose in it, but I don’t get a lot of rose. This is the second perfume I have by Phaedon and I think they don’t get as much notice as they should.

Let's face it: the market is saturated with dark rose perfumes. There are jammy roses, cosmetics roses, patchy roses, oudy rose attars, and so many perfumes that smell like Noir de Noir, including other perfumes from Tom Ford that all share similar characteristics. Rouge Avignon is a perfume in its own right. What I find interesting is that it seems like a blend of all of the above. I smell a jammy rose, a dark & creamy Middle Eastern inspiration, and a powdery cosmetics rose all in the same bottle. Chocolate is noticeable, and it's more like an alkaline chocolate powder versus a chocolate candy bar. I don't smell raspberry specifically, but I have to assume it comes into play to create the confiture effect. And the biggest component of the perfume, unsurprisingly, is a velvety red rose. I think it's a beautiful fragrance, but because I already own Histoires de Parfums' 1969, which also has rose, fruit and chocolate, I feel no immediate need to buy this one. But I still recommend sampling it. I have had more misses than hits with the Phaedon line. After Tabac Rouge, this would be my next choice.

Here is what I get wearing Rouge Avignon: First off strong tubery, woody, kind of dry with a softer woody spice. ..definitely smelling some vetiver here with rose. There is some sweet warm amber here too. Rose comes out more as it wears. Vetiver gets a bit stronger and that tuber? it keeps on, keeping on.. the entire time. This scent with its strong tuber is reminding me of heavy tubery Black Orchid. However, it is as if Black Orchid had all the patchouli taken out, softened the cacao, added a different spicy woody note and thrown in a really nice rose, then you'd have something very similar to Rouge Avignon. Not really picking up a lot of raspberry here...it is more of a non distinct fruity rose. Fairly nice scent. Probably more suited for cooler months or nights. Ha! I just noticed the notes - hinoki wood!! yep.. there is the kinda spicy woody I was getting (hinoki has this spice to it) it's quite intensive w/ the tuber for sure.

I imagine an old castle with slightly damp stone walls, centuries-old wooden furniture and ceiling bars when smelling Rouge Avignon. In fact, I am not surprised that the Papal Palace in Avignon inspired this fragrance. I get strong ambery vibes from Rouge Avignon and I believe to smell labdanum and opoponax quite prominently. There is also a green facet, appearing regularly like a cool breeze. To me, this is the embodiment of an exceptionally well executed gothic fragrance.

This smells exactly like sauna at the countryside to me. It literally has the scent of old country house. I don't know how people smell rose and raspberry in it. To me it smells woody and smoky. I enjoy it. Reminds me of childhood and all the scents around back then. So very nice. This perfume is interesting, it has a country club luxury to it. I guess I should be looking, where to buy it.

This is beautiful. Everything about it, from the name of the brand, the design of the bottle, to the scent inside just transports you into some kind of romantic historic vision of the classical ages. It is sweet, rosy, warm, and and there is a faint lovely oud note in the beginning that, as the flowers fade away towards the end of the life of the fragrance, stays fixated on the skin.

This reminds me of Rose Anonyme by Atelier Cologne mixed with the scent of my leather shoes. It's pretty tame overall but I like it, but I probably won't buy the full bottle just to smell like my shoes.

I don’t have an atomizer but on my skin this opens exactly like TF Black Orchid dries down.

It's a nice one but less for me...

Fragrance in three words: Dusky Raspberry Rose. There's something about this I find both obnoxious and seductive. I see the same qualities in TF's Ombré Leather (2018). Rouge Avignon has a strong jammy sweet rose, comparisons to Turkish Delight are spot on. It reminds me a bit of Joop! Homme (1989) in terms of sweetness. Mixed in with the rose is a powdery raspberry. It is sweet, but not an ultrabright candy raspberry like you might find in the DKNY Be Delicious range. I get some really nice dark cocoa, but it sort of gets lost as does the smokey vetiver. The bit I don't like is the way the (black) musk mixes with a powdery amber. I find the way it contrasts against the sweetness really jarring to the point of headache inducing. I'm not sure why as I really enjoy Joop, A*Men and Prada Amber Homme which can be offensively sweet at certain times so who knows. Value: UK Price (January 2021) is £125 for 100ml EdP. This is affordable and puts it in the same price range as Tom Ford's Signature line. The sillage is on the heavy side on my skin. Longevity was 8 hours+, which is excellent. This fragrance isn't for me so scores a neutral 6.5 out of 10. Source: 1ml sample

Opens with TF Noir de Noir raspberry version though with less depth, less creaminess, no vanilla. Dries down to more prominent overdone Byredo Rose of No Man's Land kind of rose. I get the blending and quality, but it is a bit boring...