Papillon Artisan Perfumes · 2019 · Liz Moores

Bengale Rouge

Luxury$$$$, 4 of 5

The houseUnisex

VersionEau de Parfum

Honeyed sandalwood and Turkish rose with sweet myrrh, vanilla, tonka and caramel, over earthy oakmoss.

Papillon Artisan Perfumes says

You’ll smell sandalwood, Turkish Rose, honey, vanilla and Sweet Myrrh.

More from Papillon Artisan Perfumes’s description

It also mentions Oakmoss, Tonka, Caramel and Beeswax absolute.

The house’s page

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The drawn Bengale Rouge bottle

When you spray ittop notes

As it settlesheart notes

What staysdry-down notes

Bengale Rouge’s scent picture, a draft: sandalwood, rose, honey, vanilla, myrrh, oakmoss drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

When you spray ittop notes

Bengale Rouge, when you spray it: Limonene (orange peel)

As it settlesheart notes

Bengale Rouge, as it settles: Rose, Caramel

What staysdry-down notes

Bengale Rouge, what stays: Sandalwood, Honey, Vanilla, Myrrh, Oakmoss, Tonka (coumarin)

What’s inside it

What the label names

9 scent ingredients on the label, familiar names first.

A label must name certain ingredients, most of them ones that can cause allergies; some houses print more. It is never the whole recipe.

2 citrus3 florals1 sweet1 amber & resins1 spices1 earth & moss

2 more lines on the label, not there for the smell

Not for the smell2

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Our match of the notes

Shares its notes

BeautifulEstée Lauder · shares sandalwood, rose, honey, vanilla and 3 more$115 for 75 ml · about a third of Bengale Rouge’s about $197
CabanYSL · shares sandalwood, rose, vanilla, tonka and 1 more$330 for 125 ml
Eros FlameVersace · shares sandalwood, rose, vanilla, oakmoss and 1 more$149 for 100 ml · about a third of Bengale Rouge’s about $197
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Matched by the notes each house names. A shared note is not a promise they smell alike.