Trudon · 2026 · Émilie Bouge

Carmen

Premium$$$, 3 of 5
Trudon asks $290 for 100 ml

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Bright bergamot and grapefruit with rum over smoky tobacco, soft leather, clove and oak, drying to labdanum, moss and patchouli.

Trudon says

You’ll smell bergamot, grapefruit, rhum, Oak Wood, clove, leather, tobacco, Ambroxan, labdanum, moss and patchouli.

More from Trudon’s description

It also mentions Rum, Woods, Resins and Oak.

The house’s page

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The drawn Carmen bottle

When you spray ittop notes

As it settlesheart notes

What staysdry-down notes

Carmen’s scent picture, a draft: bergamot, grapefruit, rum, oak, clove, leather drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

When you spray ittop notes

Carmen, when you spray it: Bergamot, Grapefruit, Rum

As it settlesheart notes

Carmen, as it settles: Oak, Clove, Leather, Tobacco, Geraniol (rose)

What staysdry-down notes

Carmen, what stays: Ambroxan (ambergris), Labdanum, Oakmoss, Patchouli, Virginia cedar, Cedar, Vanillin (vanilla), Iso E Super (pencil shavings on velvet), Coumarin (new-mown hay)

What’s inside it

What Trudon names

BergamotGrapefruitRhumOak WoodCloveLeatherTobaccoAmbroxan (ambergris)LabdanumMossPatchouliResins

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.

4 citrus5 herbs & lavender3 florals4 woods2 sweet4 spices

Citrus4

LimoneneCitralalpha-TerpineneTerpinolene

Herbs & lavender5

PineneCamphorLinaloolLinalyl acetateTerpineol

Florals3

Geranyl acetateGeraniol (rose) (rose)Cinnamyl alcohol

Woods4

Patchouli oilCedarwood oilCedarwood oilIso E Super (pencil shavings on velvet)

Sweet2

Vanillin (vanilla)Coumarin (new-mown hay)

Spices4

Eugenolbeta-CaryophylleneEugenyl acetateIsoeugenol
8 more lines on the label, not there for the smell

Not for the smell8

AlcoholWaterBenzyl benzoateCi42090Ci19140Ci14700Ci17200Sodium sulfate, not in Ingredients yet

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Our match of the notes

Shares its notes

KourosYSL · shares bergamot, clove, leather, ambergris and 2 moreabout $122 for 100 ml · about half of Carmen’s $290
SugardaddyFugazzi · shares bergamot, clove, ambergris, oakmoss and 1 more$255 for 100 ml · about the same as Carmen’s $290
Lys SølabergMaison Crivelli · shares oak, tobacco, ambergris, cistus and 1 moreabout $238 for 100 ml · about the same as Carmen’s $290

Matched by the notes each house names. A shared note is not a promise they smell alike.