Description
“I am on the petals of roses and on the wounds of war.
My name is red.
I am scarlet or carmine. I embody desire, passion, seduction and strength.
I reveal myself and catch the eye.
But what does being a colour really mean?
If you had to describe me to a person blind from birth, what would you say?
Well, you see, I am primarily a feeling.
If I were a fabric, I would be velvet.
If I were a flavour, I would fill the mouth with a taste of flesh and blood.
And if I were a perfume?
I would be both powerful and enveloping, vivid, scandalous and enchanting; I would be reassuring and
narcotic, majestic and hypnotic” — press release of the brand. Mon Nom est Rouge was launched in 2012. The nose behind this fragrance is Cecile Zarokian.
Bavar – :
reminds me of Penhaligons Ruthless Countess, only better
Jirdesal – :
A blast of pepper, a swirl of cumin and cardamom then suddenly a flash of powdery rose. Est Rouge is an assault on the senses for the first few minutes, like a walk through a spice bazaar. It is definitely a close relation to Epic Woman but somehow less brazen, and maybe a bit more girlish with a stronger traditional floral beating heart and occasional jammy sweet hints of fruit. Lovely, but you probably don’t need both this and Amouage in your collection.
dimalaborant – :
LOVE. Powerful, dusty incense and dry, crunchy wood form the base. Sharp, heady rose up top. A brilliant creation that seems to borrow the best ideas from the likes of Bond’s Marriage Equality (its crunchiness) and Portrait of a Lady (its incense core and pointy rose) but mixes in some creative destruction, some sprezzatura. It manages to be both rich and spare at the same time.
Performance is top-tier and largely linear.
This is Portrait of a Lady’s well-traveled, bisexual, bohemian, polyglot half-sister. Not as conventionally beautiful, but more funky and challenging; mind, both are at the apogee of perfumery.
incexicag – :
This cinnamon is way too overpowered in this, it ruined it for me.
AndreHrebak – :
Mon nom est rouge is basically an incense very zesty, yeasty, citrusy, fruity, with a waxed rose in the core.
Well actually I sense a lot of Red Berries in here.
As those fruits are not mentioned on this site I went on the Bekkali ones and I have found they mention in fact Baies Roses which is translated from french in pink berries. Curiosity kill the cat but on the english version of the official site they also put Aldehydes, lemon, metallic effects, between the notes list… just to confirm that Maisons can write what they want about notes. It is not like food. no laws regulate the honesty and the words of producers. So someone pix a couples of chemical things which recalls many essences and they write what they think people would like to read.
Anyway this fragrance is very good, a bit to acid and with that retro-pear I do not go crazy for. But it is a great perfume quite original and with personality.
jlc820JeomiWogkig – :
Wow.Mon nom runs between Epic woman,Calligraphy Rose and Amber Mystique.But has a strong identity,instead.
The single notes seems balanced in other way respect the others I say..There is less cedar than Epic,more amber than calligraphy but the central Rose is magic,is a spellbound to fairies.
Well done.
nogyEnhathy – :
Smells like a cross between Amouage Epic and Estee Lauder Amber Mystique with a touch of Calligraphy Rose. If you like two or three of those, it’s worth just having this one instead since it’s the best of all three thrown in together as one. Beautifully done! The woman who wears this will stand out in a crowd. It’s really more of a spicy oriental than floral, with strong rose but also a host of other mysterious-smelling notes. The cardamom is my only deal-breaker here since it doesn’t work well with my skin, so I personally opt for Epic. Nevertheless, I highly recommend Mon Nom Est Rouge among spicy rose perfumes.
8910907 – :
sorry the cumin ruined it for me again
this is a heads up for those who have sensitivities
Lutichek – :
This is hands down, the strangest, most addictive perfume I own!
Campari. Coca-Cola. Rosewater Lokum. Frankincense. Amber. This is what I get.
I cannot begin to describe how beautiful and unusual it is. All I know is, this is fast becoming one of my favourites. Longevity and sillage is bombastic! I cannot wait to try the rest of the scents from this house.
ksenia73 – :
Smells like Coca Cola on blotter and for the first 30 mins on skin. Then it develops into a spicy chai kind of smell, more spicy than milky but still with a round creamy feel.
The resins and spices are so masterfully blended it is virtually impossible to distinguish them. The longevity is superb – lasted for over 24 hours on skin.
I would disagree with its similarity with Amouage Epic Woman, as Epic Woman is a lot sweeter, brighter and crispier spice, whereas MB is softer and creamier.
Kemnep – :
It is red, I’ll give it that. And it has a lot of depth, with breathtaking development through the drydown. It just doesn’t personify the red I was wanting. I have been searching for a perfume to epitomise the deep, gritty nature of red; the passion; the strength and power of red; the violence, danger and sexual nature of red… that’s what I wanted to find. Majda’s “Mon Nom est Rouge” is a beautiful red. I won’t deny that. But it is a romantic red – the colour of a rose, without all the gritty symbolism. And I’m afraid I don’t find this particularly deep or woody. To me it has a sherbet feel – must be the ginger and pink pepper that some people mentioned (making it “fizzy”). But the real proof in the pudding is when you unexpectedly catch a whiff of a perfume, and you react with “OMG that is gorgeous! I’m not sure what it is, but I love it…” indicating that more testing is required. This happened. Maybe I will end up with a full bottle?
mentor12 – :
I fall in love with this cologne.This is rich,incense and balsamic and it’s scent is so beautiful.
I love this cologne and it’s perfumer Mr.s Cecile Zarokian.
Bravo
8/10
SUPER.VOWA – :
I don’t understand those haters who think about themselfs that they have such a great nose and great feeling about every smell, or note or accord.They even find very easy synthetics or natural smells, iso E super in Mon Mom est Rouge, but not in all series of Comme de Garcons or Encre Noir for men.
I bought several times perfumes that have eulogies from those great noses and I just found myself in front of a submediocre perfumes. I think that this perfume in not that bad, it doesn’t at all smell like ISO E Super or incense. In my country we burn inside the house and churches incense for the beautiful smell and I can find it in here. From the votes this one should smell like Portrayt of a Lady- Frederic Malle, and it is not.
I think that smelling perfumes is better with comparation. So…try Akkad and see the similarities…like elemi resins and see what this smell it’s about.
I think this is a very warm perfume and very nice. Don’t buy or not buy perfumes from the tales in here. Buy whatever your nose and soul likes. “Les conosseurs” should try to make their own “very natural” perfume.
bocitan – :
Opening aldehyde almost “metal”, with pink pepper very pronounced and supported by cinnamon and incense. sophisticated and unisex perfume. Ideal for the days of autumn or even winter, strong enough and durable! In the drydown it becomes sensual. Overall it smells good, I like!
Sillage: 8.5/10
Longevity: 9./10
Scent: 8./10
Overall: 8./10
nik – :
I love Mon nom est rouge: I think it’s beautiful. It’s a beautiful rose; a very earthy rose, red and wild. With gorgeous gentle and also sweet and rich spices, with a lovely rich incense, and amber and sweet creamy vanilla. I love it! It lasts extremely well – 12 hours or more, and stays lovely and strong. I’d put it on early in the morning, and when my friend visited around 5pm (I’d put it on at 4am) the first thing she said was ‘Mmmmm…..delicious smell!! What gorgeous perfume!’. It’s a very enticing and sensual, wild perfume. It’s terrific, and my husband really loves it too, and even wears it himself sometimes! He’s not really much of a perfume wearer, but…………..sometimes it’s just too alluring to resist!!!
And I adore the gorgeous gorgeous bottle. I love Majda’s bottles!!! They are fantastic! Really beautiful pieces of art. I’m completely besotted!!!!
bregocice x – :
Truly fantastic! Rose gorgeous rose: and spices galore!! Intense and refined; deep and complex; thrilling and exotic; smooth and sharp; creamy and earthy. It’s beautiful. Magical.
Laaaaaaasts so long – it’s brilliant!!! And Perfect sillage ; my husband loves (and wears!) it too – on us both. We Love it.
And what a fabulous bottle!!!!!
pyg968Unlogrere – :
On me this smells more like ginger ale than a spicy rose. It’s very complex and should be worn in colder months, but I had a craving for something warm (more like hot, in this case), so I used up my sample right away. I enjoy it, yet won’t buy it: I think there are smoother offerings out there.
replicaw78407 – :
WOW! This is an amazing spicey incensy rose fragrance on me. I can see why folk mention amouage epic woman. It is very similar to Epic. So intense! I also have Rumba Passion and John Galliano edp and they are no way as strong and intense. I get a big hit of ginger, cardamom and cumin. Towards the end it is a true incense bomb. This is a beast and a half.
I would say its a unisex fragrance. Amazing sillage and great longevity.
rainbow6152 – :
This is a knockout fragrance. Phenomenal. Pepper, spices, elemi, incense, cedar, ginger and one powerful rose. It opens with a bright almost effervescent quality, a carbonated peppery ginger that tingles and pops. Then the composition opens up and the rose appears accompanied by the orchestra of supporting notes. Each note has a strong presence yet the notes are all perfectly blended, coming in and out of focus, taking turns at the forefront. This is award-level artistry. Simply amazing. Highly complex and mood lifting. Lasts 18+ hours (not exaggerating) 10/10.
bjgdan – :
This is indeed fairy tale in a bottle. This fragrance tells a story which is intense, intriguing, quirky yet at the same time conceals a dark shadow like mystery.
It is such a great story you just don’t know where to start and yet for some reason can not remember how it ends because long after you worn it, long after it is gone, the story keeps going on in the depths of your subconscious.
This fragrance starts indeed with that fizzy pop sparkling behavior the previous user mentioned. Just when I thought the fizzy face would just remain for just a few minutes. However it keeps bubbling for easily 2 to 3 hours on my skin. And I never expected the effect to last so long.
Even though it is a smell, it tastes like sparkling sweet red muscat wine with a lot of interesting facets.
There is indeed a lot going on to keep you entertained for hours and hours. This is an intense orchestra of notes played very well in such a manner which might be overwhelming to others.
I personally think this entire composition is great on all levels. Scent wise, strength wise, longevity wise and quality wise. Applause to the perfumer for making a fragrance which is true to it’s name. Her name is Red and one would be lucky to fall for the magic she has to reveal. With this review I have failed in being able to explain to you how this fragrance smell like. It’s just that this fragrance is one I highly recommend you to try along your fragrance journey. You may not like it because it may not suit your personality very well , however you will highly appreciate and respect it for the long hours of interesting olfactory entertainment it has to offer.
Arei2012 – :
Pink-pepper, fizzy pop sparkling adelhyde and rosed-woodchip madness!
The top notes are far too prickly-strong for me, this being a blend it was always going to be a case of different parts appearing for different people at the start.
Sadly again this one is just too much with the pink-pepper + aldehyde mix, really it’s like a spiced, ‘crystalline’ fireworks display at the top within an enclosure of strongly aromatic woodchip-garden fences. The orange contributes to this as well, no real lemons detected here.
It’s not smoky at all, only citric-aldehyic, it’s very intense here.
The rose comes out later and of course, it gets better as the inital wildness settles after an hour or 2, but I did fence on buying this sample becuase these blends can go either way, love or hate – sadly this one is a pass,,
Scent: 5/10
Quality: 8/10.
pahan72 – :
Mon Nom Est Rouge – “My Name is Red” is a book title by Orhan Pamuk, a favorite of Majda’s. She tried to capture the color red in a fragrance. She said: “We decided it is a spiced rose. Rose with a velvety sensation, with a metallic taste of blood from its thorns.”
This is gorgeous. I agree with reviewer majestic mammy, this is similar to Amouage Epic Woman! Also with amaraztavich’s friend, it does at times smell like the inside of the little wooden cedar souvenir boxes.
Beautiful blend of turkish rose, incense, and cedar. One benefit, I did not develop full anosmia at any point. Emphasis on the different notes shifted continually. When my nose developed a tolerance for one note, another emerged and took its’ place so that I was able to enjoy the perfume all day. For a time, I could smell the tobacco, then the amber, then cinnamon, with the rose/cedar/incense accord to support it all. Overall the strength of the fragrance stayed strong and was a pleasure to wear.
Majda, and her perfumer who created the scent, Cecile Zarokian, did accomplish their goals. This is a complex, lovely perfume. The above quote is from Serguey Borisov’s article on Fragrantica where he interviewed Majda at the Pitti Fragranze in ’12. You can read her favorite passages from the book in the article, along with the ideas Zarokian had, about notes to paint the picture of the fragrance. A beautiful story to inspire the fragrance!
NBF25 – :
Since amber fragrances are not necessarily my favorite style, i moderately appreciate this one. The problem for me with an amber accord is that it ends dominating a fragrance and give it a kind of a standar amber face – incensy, sweet in a muffled way, a little bit grey maybe. What makes this more interesting to me is the focus on the fresh, incense aspect at first – which seems to me to be curiously openened by a bright aldehydic aroma, which reforces the fresh aspects of incense, and it’s extended by the spicy pink pepper note (a similar effect can be seen on Le Labo Baie Rose 26). Close to skin you notice a sweet cinnamon and rose aroma which seems to be related to the rouge in the fragrance name. But after some hours it ends in a standard, but balanced, amber accord. Not something that i would need a bottle i guess.
gagar3819 – :
Pure magic. Just tried my sample.Definately a rose fragrance, but starts off very fresh and citrusy , then it becomes quite spicy and starts to warm up. This scent last 14 hours on my wrist, and the entire life of the scent is a beautiful rose that changes from fresh, to spicy,then sweet and creamy.A very interesting ride
dvs0025 – :
Assolutamente identico al Campari, molto alcolico, profumo aperitivo? Sigh.
Per gli estimatori del Campari profumo perfetto.
Per me è no.
kleptomonster – :
A religious perfume; cumin, spices and incense give off a feeling of sacredness and that’s good, very good!
5n84a10 – :
I have a sample and find it deeply reminiscent of a forrest embedded with roses and sprinkled with spices. On the masculine side for women but very unique. A man could easily wear this too.
Deroxsruvp – :
This is a similar to the base notes of epic woman by amouage. However I have removed my previous review as now I’ve tried Mon Nom Est Rouge over and over. sometimes a tiny sample is not the same explosion as spritzing a larger decant or bottle.
This is a mimic of Epic Woman. This is not something I would buy again nor is the dry down appealing. Smells very synthetic.
While Epic Woman by Amouage , which first few seconds smells like twins but side by side noooooooo.,Epic is far far farrrrrrrr better in every single note in its composition. This is literally not that good Mon Nom Est Rouge was release in 3 years after epic woman which was created in 2009 created in collaboration with Daniel Maurel..
HaxJIe6HuK – :
This is divine juice with depth and complexity. It evokes smokey bars on the one hand and a courtesan’s boudoir on the other. It is classy and sexy and just downright gorgeous.
Longevity and sillage are superior to many of the newer brands of fragrance.
Don’t hesitate…..buy a bottle. You’ll be glad you did.
gara15d – :
my friend said it smells like the inside of a wooden box. I suppose it is a little woody :/ She did like it a lot! I still strongly smell rose, but yes, mixed so well, I don’t smell the wood as separate, maybe a woody rose?
Милейко – :
MEN take note! This is the answer you’ve been looking for. After taking much time to wear this quality perfume and much time to contemplate it’s now clear.
This is basically a second version of Amouage Lyric for men. Basically I know most of you like the womens version more, well this is very much like the womens version, only it’s without a doubt, more ‘masculine’
anyway, definently worth a sniff!
Longevity is amazing
Women can of course also wear this, it is a darker version of womens lyric but the right women could definently pull it off
oh yes, it must be the tobacco that I smell..mmmh… yeah, I think I’d rather smell this one on my man 🙂
but definently wearable on women
zair_71 – :
Gorgeous ….. I’m going to keep this short and sweet then come back and finish after I’ve graced the nape of my neck with this amazing juice a few more times.
But as I feel right now, that yes, this is very similar to both Amouage Lyric and Amouage Epic. And in the simplest terms, it seems as though it starts off with the base of lyric and works it’s way to the midway of Epic…never fully leaving behind the base incense rose rootbear scent of lyric , of which I adore so much 😀
And I can say without hesitation , now, that the longevity is far superior to that of amouage, or atleast what Amouage is now putting out…I’m sure the formulation may have been more concentrated years ago… But with this rose beauty I get over 12 hours, I’ll be more specific when I return to complete this review 🙂
BTW my friend said that it smelled like the inside of a box
ahhh yes, and the bottle, is simply adorable, looks even better in person 🙂
Oh and I almost forgot to mention that the nose for mon nom est rouge is none other than the same nose from ‘Epic’
1234567890 – :
I would not put this juice in a floral category, it is very deep though floral notes can be detected on the top. The incense and amber are very captivating. I have a sample and would get this one.
Daoli6yr – :
This wonderful, warm and deep, rich fragrance opens like a Campari and ends with dry rose accents – similar to those in Lyric for woman, Amouage. And this how it ends is definitely the weakest part of the composition.