J’s image of Badar Parfums Rouge Éclat
Badar Parfums has made a stunning return with the remarkable duo of Flair Paris perfumers Margaux Le Paih-Guérin and Amélie Bourgeois, teamed together to unveil the brand’s fourth creation, the delicious Rouge Éclat. This exquisite fragrance lives up to its name, glowing in an array red tones that guide us through a sensuous experience filled with magnificent florals and creamy woods and medjool dates enrobed in silk.
Flair Paris perfumers Margaux Le Paih-Guérin and Amélie Bourgeois courtesy of Flair Paris.
Badar Parfums Rouge Éclat opens with a deep fruitiness, reminiscent of candied dates with a rich cherry liquor that feels fresh, bright and instantly gives you that rouge colour of the name. It’s super smooth with deep red with a lovely soft body with just enough weight to make it feel sensual from the get go. Yet has this sort easy breeziness as the citruses sparkle over the dates. Something about its scent makes me think of Christmas, that’s the time of year I consume dates more than usual as I splash on the rather beautiful plump Medjool dates that feel present here. As you wear Rouge Éclat it has an elegant sweeping movement of red silk, long and graceful, the same way someone with grandeur moves. Iris enhances the silky feel with things getting delicious and creamy as Rouge Éclat unfolds.
Badar Parfums Rouge Éclat courtesy of the brand.
Apricot and peach combine with the dates giving Rogue Éclat complex depth and a lighter playful essence. As it dries down, it becomes creamier, transitioning to a milky smoothness that feels thick like a milkshake, imparting a voluptuous sensation to the silkiness of the iris, allowing Rouge Éclat to drape its candied dates and fruits over you like glowing gems. It glides with some subtle soft spices as saffron starts to peak through with a deep rich woody vanilla glinting with ambers giving a darker richness. But that’s for later. Rouge Éclat unfolds at a beautiful slow pace on my skin, its feels as if the dates from the opening have become opened and smoothed out into this delicious weight of dark red silk. It’s creamy and rich with sun flickering and highlighting its folds as it’ adorns your body. Iris takes the for me here, I love how it works with the fruits while setting the stage for the creamy sandalwood and vanilla. Osmanthus when it’s arrived shines. It pulls Rouge Éclat deeper swirling it with a fresher floral yellow plum note with mouthwatering honeyed floral feel. It’s as if the sun has emerged and illuminated t gorgeous red silk. The interplay of the osmanthus and iris is gorgeous, giving me flashbacks to vintage Jean Patou 1000; but rather than herbal greens these sensual florals are wrapped up in a delicious silky contemporary gourmand feel, one that’s addictive.
Badar Parfums Rouge Éclat courtesy of the brand.
Margaux Le Paih-Guérin and Amélie Bourgeois have composed this Parfum extrait in a way where materials and notes fade into each other from open to close, then glide over each other dancing and giving Badar Parfums Rouge Éclat a remarkable grace. Notes are foreshadowed with their melodies weaving through the ones that came before enriching and complementing them while subtle expanding the original. A gorgeous honeyed note captures the mouthwatering intensity of the Medjool dates while continuing the silky feel turning it into a glowing red hue. Saffron too picks up on this silkiness and from the osmanthus adding some silver stitching to the silks.
Sandalwood enhances that creaminess felt from the start while giving a skin like feel for the seductive silks to slide across. Ambroxan’s cosy muskiness envelops your body as you wear it enticing others, letting the rest of the notes work their magic in the air around you. Vanilla has been there for a while, adding a rich creaminess that leans more into a deep amber conjuring the darker hues of the dates inner flesh. Rouge Éclat’s gourmand side is beautifully balanced and refined; its sweetness has enough darker elements to make you feel like you’re dining at a high-class Parisian patisserie, while the florals giving it a soft elegance and that iris osmanthus combination is one I can’t get enough of. Badar Parfums Rouge Éclat has knocked Estelle off Badar Parfums’s No.1 spot for me. Utterly beautiful.
Notes: Date, Pink berries extract, Bergamot essence, Red mandarin essence, Grapefruit, Mandora essence, Candied fruits, Osmanthus absolute, Solar note, Milk, Iris, Sandalwood, Amber, Vanilla, Saffron, Honey, Ambroxan
Disclosure: Badar Parfums Rouge Éclat was sent to J for review, thoughts and nose are his own.
J Wearescentient, Senior Editor, artist & olfactive writer.
Badar Parfums Rouge Éclat courtesy of the brand.
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You can read Michelyn’s great Young Perfumers Interview with Margaux Le Paih Guérin here. Madame Le Paigh Guérin was Michelyn’s rising star of 2024 and Badar Parfums her Best Discovery 0f 2024
Badar Parfums Estelle was included in Michelyn’s and my Best of Scents 2024 top 10 lists.
Please read my review of Badar Parfums Sandal Rice here, Sinaï here and Estelle here.
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