Rabanne · 2025 · Nicolas Beaulieu, Anne Flipo and Juliette Karagueuzoglou

Phantom in Red Elixir

Premium$$$, 3 of 5
Rabanne asks $150 for 100 ml
100 ml$150

The houseFor men

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Boozy plum and bergamot with saffron over lavender, clary sage and orange blossom, ending on ambery tobacco, benzoin and oud.

A shop’s page says

You’ll smell bergamot, Plum Liquor, saffron, lavender, Clary Sage, Orange Flower, Ambery Tobacco, benzoin and oud.

The shop’s page

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When you spray ittop notes

As it settlesheart notes

What staysdry-down notes

Phantom in Red Elixir’s scent picture, a draft: bergamot, plum, saffron, lavender, clary sage, orange flower drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

When you spray ittop notes

Phantom in Red Elixir, when you spray it: Bergamot, Plum, Saffron

As it settlesheart notes

Phantom in Red Elixir, as it settles: Lavender, Clary sage, Orange flower

What staysdry-down notes

Phantom in Red Elixir, what stays: Tobacco, Benzoin, Oud, Patchouli, Iso E Super (pencil shavings on velvet), Coumarin (new-mown hay), Vanillin (vanilla)

What’s inside it

What a shop’s page names

BergamotPlum LiquorSaffronLavenderClary SageOrange FlowerAmbery TobaccoBenzoinOud

What the label names

22 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.

5 citrus6 herbs & lavender5 florals2 woods2 sweet1 spices1 powder

Citrus5

Bergamot oilLimoneneTerpinoleneCitralalpha-Terpinene

Herbs & lavender6

Lavender oilPineneCamphorLinalyl acetateLinaloolTerpineol

Florals5

Geraniol (rose)CitronellolDimethyl phenethyl acetateGeranyl acetateRose ketones

Woods2

Patchouli oilIso E Super (pencil shavings on velvet)

Sweet2

Vanillin (vanilla)Coumarin (new-mown hay)

Spices1

beta-Caryophyllene

Powder1

alpha-Isomethyl ionone (powder puff)
8 more lines on the label, not there for the smell

Not for the smell8

AlcoholWaterAvobenzone (a UV filter)Benzyl benzoateBenzyl alcoholYellow 5Ext. violet 2Red 4

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Our match of the notes

Shares its notes

Opus XIV Royal TobaccoAmouage · shares bergamot, plum, lavender, bitter orange (neroli, orange blossom, petitgrain) and 3 more$395 for 100 ml
Detour EcoAl Haramain · shares bergamot, saffron, lavender, clary sage and 1 more$27.22 for 100 ml · about a fifth of Phantom in Red Elixir’s $150
HaltaneParfums de Marly · shares bergamot, saffron, lavender, clary sage and 1 more$460 for 125 ml · about twice Phantom in Red Elixir’s $150
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Matched by the notes each house names. A shared note is not a promise they smell alike.