Rouge Comme des Garcons for women and men

A sharp, modern scent. This is what I would wear if I was going out in Brooklyn on a summer night dressed in all black. Yes, it's vegetal right at the beginning, but it quickly dries down to a ginger and incense scent that is just so edgy and cool. If you like the pineapple and smoke combo of fragrances like Creed's Aventus, but want something that goes in a different direction, this is for you.

I really love this. It’s better than other offerings from this brand as far as longevity goes. Lovely scent that lasts all day and into the night.

It takes a long time to appreciate this but upon first meeting, other people don’t have that time to overcome the beetroot fragrance and develop an appreciation for the other notes and you just smell dirty to them. Somewhat like body odour on a very hairy person it’s awful.

I would like to preface my thoughts with a disclaimer that I may be a bit biased towards this fragrance, as I AM OBSESSED WITH beetroots. I love them—I love the way they look, smell, and taste—raw, cooked, fried, baked. Beetroots may be the second biggest love of my life (after myself).

With that being said, as a certified beet expert, this perfume blew my lid off with how realistic the note is presented here. I don't know whether you can extract actual beet (doubtful) or did Mme Gracia-Cetto construct the accord herself. If the latter is the case, then Christ almighty, this needs to be studied by future generations, it's that photogrammetrically accurate. It has everything, all contradicting facets: sweet and savory, cool and spicy, damp cellar and zest, earthiness and airiness. With all supporting notes like aldehydes, ginger, pepper, mint, patchouli complementing the beet's particular inflections like neat Venn diagrams. Honestly...

Another interesting thing that I think is done here is that the classic Comme des Garçons DNA of incense loaded with cedary Iso E Super (almost in all of their fragrances, distilled in Standard) is modified by introducing a hefty dose of akigalawood, which supercharges the entire thing giving it a hyper-realistic quality, like you'd try to explain in great detail the smell of beetroots to aliens and they recreated it.

Excellent longevity and diffusion are an added bonus!

With ALL that being said, the whole thing is super wearable, and if you think this smells like borscht you either never had borscht before or smoked crack right before writing your comment lol

Grandma’s old house. It’s a little musty because she doesn’t have the energy to clean and there are animals running around. She’s cooking borscht and it’ll stink up the place all day.

extremely realistic earthy fragrance. for the first hour or so it's bright and fun and a lil sweet. very vegetal. it doesn't smell bad but it gets old very fast. it stops being bright and then every time u get whiff ur like 'well yep. smells like dirt'. needs something a bit sweet to round out the earthiness i think

It has everything I like in a perfume. Instant Love.

I’m not a fan of gourmet perfumes but this one smells like borscht, lol. The beets don’t stay long and eventually it becomes a nice smoky gingery blend on me, which is good quality but not very interesting on its own. But I do appreciate the initial borscht moment!

Let's start off by saying this doesn't really smell all they much like beets, and that's probably a good thing for most people. There are vegetal notes and deep earthy notes for sure, but those are earthy notes as opposed to dirty notes. The characteristic smell of beets comes from geosmin which is also found in dirt. I don't detect any geosmin in CDG Rouge, and its a very powerful and distinctive chemical, so I'm about 98% sure there's none here.

It's still a very original and interesting smell. The contrast of the minty notes with the earthy and smoky notes is pretty cool. Well worth smelling and truly reminiscent of the scent of Tokyo for me, but not sure this would ever be a daily wearer for me.

Opens smelling like an expensive juice shot - what if you made a 'gourmand' scent where the edible notes are herbs and vegetables? I think the beetroot note reads more as carrot to me, there's definitely something sweet-root-vegetable but it's not got the intense earthiness of beetroot, but carrot juice doesn't work as well for the 'rouge' story I suppose. Healthy and refreshing opening eventually dries down to a less assertively weird, sexy incense-patchouli base that sticks around for hours and hours and hours. Probably not 'wearable' for the office but absolutely for warehouse parties, gallery openings, etc. Surprised the fragrantica consensus leans toward 'daytime' on this - to me this is 100% to be worn in the dark.

I'm trying to describe the scent.

It is important to remember that this brand is focused on conceptual things, be it clothes or fragrance.

After a few hours, the brightness of the smell decreases. But it is still the same dry, smoky, “morning after a party” smell. The smell of smoky clothes. And it’s wonderful, from “start” to “end”. No catch. Clean. The beets, which a villager (maybe))), a city dweller and a partygoer feel so clearly will not find here. I don't want to disappoint anyone.

The perfume is amazing. Wonderful smoky "afterparty"👌

Green, spicy beets. sweet Amber. Weird combo. It’s just doesn’t work. Still a solid blend. Good harmony. Not nuanced. Does deteriorate into a soapy scent approaching dry-down, but that may ideal for a scent like this.

Sampled this for fun while searching for a signature year-round scent. When I tested it on a strip my first words were “Wow, this is sultry,” followed by, “It’s beets in dirt!”

On the skin it also opened with very obvious “beets just pulled out of the dirt” and spicy fresh ginger, both of which I love. Not much pink pepper on the opening for me. Unfortunately the beets don’t last long though, and after about 20 minutes they disappeared and an interestingly sweet smell came through alongside the ginger that reminded me of vanilla. Like a ginger ice cream sweetness, not sure which note that’s from, but maybe the labdanum. Then after an hour or so it was down to just the warm spicy incense and patchouli with a hint of the ginger left. Never got the mint but green aromatics tend to disappear on me for some reason.

This is definitely not the year-round signature I’ve been looking for - way too warm and spicy for a hot summer day. But it would be delicious for a cool fall stroll in the woods or the pumpkin patch.

Smells like woodstock in the 70s. Dated yet timeless. Gives off a rebellious yet good natured vibe. Its a 9 from me!

A lot from this house is better on paper than put to use.
Rouge boils down to being just another ambery Femme Fatale scent featuring garden green notes with beet root and mint. I don't dislike it, but I don't love it?
It's intriguing, I love a good ole garden green vibe like going to a cold Jewel-Ocso near closing after a rock show just cause you were craving something from the deli. I wanna be like ugh this is like Taylor Momsen got locked in Lowes, but I also want to smell like this. I'm on the fence.

Got a sample with my last purchase - this smells like a wealthy young adult's room in 1999 with a lava lamp, a G3 Apple iMac with dial-up connection, inflatable furniture, transparent GameBoy Color and your friend with strappy silver platform sandals typing on a yellow Nokia 5210.

Comme Des Garcons is an interesting house, not only in there clothing but also in their fragrances. Like their clothing brand there is much focus on an avant garde feel, with their fragrances. Rouge is no exception; I originally got a chance to sample rouge at the store and was instantly drawn in by the sweet tanginess of beets tossed in balsamic vinegar. The mint provided a sense of freshness creating a beet salad; as the fragrance dried down I was left with a sweet amber incense that lingered and would not go away.

The next day when I went to smell my apple watch strap from the wrist I could still smell the scent quite clearly. This is probably one of my favorite scents and the closest to becoming my signature. Highly recommend sniffing this one.

-D

Read reviews before buying a fragrance, but take them with a grain of salt. Everyone has their own opinion regarding smells. Some people love it. Some people hate it. My advice is for you to get a sample of ANY fragrance before you ever buy it. That way, you can assess it yourself and have your thoughts, rather than strictly going off someone else's thoughts and opinions.

I agree with Francesco02. The colors that remind me of Rouge are red (of course), gray, and pink. Rouge is a vegetal scent that obviously comes from the beetroot note; however, there is a slight coldness to this fragrance that emphasizes the gray color mentioned earlier. I think it's the mint and candied ginger working together with the vegetative scent of the beetroot, but there is also something pink to Rouge's smell. Unlike Francesco02, the scent is not necessarily a loud, bright neon pink, but there is a soft, pale, subtle cotton candy pink vibe. Rouge is a sweet, vegetal, ambery fragrance on my skin. I would not say that it is sickly sweet, but I would NOT SPRAY MORE THAN THREE SPRAYS, especially if you are a guy like me that likes unisex, feminine-leaning fragrances. Just don't overdo it. Then, it will be sickly sweet. Rouge is perfect for women, and certain men can pull this off without any qualms. I think this is a great scent for the daytime in the fall and spring, and it is a great summer nighttime scent when it's not overly hot and sweltering. As I stated earlier, I like it. Two thumbs up from me!!!

orthodox church, two-headed calf, beets in damp soil, flowers on unmarked grave, loss and gain, metamorphosis

Starts sharp and cold, but dries down to a really nice beet/ginger note for me. Very strange, but beautiful.

this fragrance is sickly sweet and beety. like a russian candy shop. somewhere between cheery cola and ginger sachets from a sushi place

Weird. Sweet incense. Is it betroot or sugar beet? It is sickly strange. Like blood smell or something… not for me

Sad for me and my sweet skin chemistry that this one isn't for me. This is extremely sweet and fruity to me, more carbonated cherry soda than earthy beetroot. The ginger seems more candied than spicy, the mint is drowned in the sweetness as well.

I sprayed this then went outside to a warm sunny day and instantly amplified the notes of beetroot ginger and mint and creates this clean spritz scent that's chic.

Comme de garcons fragrances are avant garde and outstanding. Very artistic.

hate beets but god i love a beet note

staying power on this is INSANE like some of the best i’ve ever tried. sprayed it on at like 10 and could still smell it about as well as when i sprayed it 8 hours later.

100% will be picking up a full bottle of this. a fascinating vegetal (almost reminds me of tomato soup tbh) fragrance and like nothing i’ve ever owned before.

also the bottle is beautiful.

Rouge starts with sharp, cold, metallic, and a lil bit soapy aldehydes (C12MNA) with incence and huge amount of rubbery-tropical pink peppercorn.

Classic rose-patchouli combination turns into minty geranium-patchouli, so it’s smells quite familiar, totally but different simultaneously.

Big amount of resins, I’d like to say tolu balsam with almost fruity aspects, but I’m almost sure that is just combination of smth like labdanum and berries such raspberry and fermented plums (rose ketones-like note with plenty of peppercorn).

Drydown is cold wet earthy and rooty patchouli & vetiver.

I guess I can name it neochypre btw: aldehyde-citrusy start, labdanum and patchouli-vetiver base.

There are a lot of hommages to classical niche scent in Rouge, like Avignon, Portrait of a Lady, Casbah, and so in.

Vegetal, but too heady. Not enough geosmin.

Lemony geosmin and that's all she wrote. Shame I got none of the promised spiciness except the briefest tingle of pepper. Apart from that gritty earthiness it is all aggressively abstract. Unmistakably CDG - stark, minimalist, mineralic, bold, weird, angular, funny (in a sly way) and futuristic. I couldn't really warm to it - though it's not unpleasant, it's got a deliberately hard and monotone, almost metallic, mirror-shine finish that never let me settle in. Powerful memories of the sheer space-station seedbed weirdness of Starck's Peau d'Ailleurs. None of that is bad! If this sort of high-concept art resonates with you - go for it. But I prefer things a little more welcoming overall; and I truly do love the CDG incense series and some of their wood scents, so the no-frills sensory shock can work for me ... but this one was just too cool a customer. Not for blind buying under any circumstances whatsoever. Definitely worth a test if industrial/aeronautical tech is your aesthetic.

It almost ROBERT PIGUET CASBAH

It's hard to describe the feelings this scent produces in me. It's warm, lovely, yet mysterious, dangerous. It opens with a warm smell of pink pepper and beetroot that being us in the middle of a countryside, surrounded by people who have a deep link with that earth. Then it's sunset, the Smokey part and incense take place and we realize that those people are attending to a Sabbath in the middle of the forest. But you don't feel threatened, somehow you find yourselves in the right place.
This Perfume is magical, intellectual but visceral, complex. I really don't understand all the bad reviews about it.
If I need to find a flaw I would say that performance are not the best and sillage is moderate (my flatmate could barely smell it), but it's the main characteristic of CdG scents.

Definitely my signature scent.

warm, spicy, and sweet!! slightly fizzy; the beetroot and ginger are easily discernible, but very well blended!! i actually expected to not like this very much, but it's growing on me as i wear it !! the incense also lends this a really calming effect. for some reason, the dry-down reminds me a bit of fresh's cannabis santal, perhaps bc of the patchouli?

My favourite in the entire range by far. I first found it pushed to the very back of the CDG display, as it was obviously out of stock. So smelling the tester which they didn’t want me to smell suddenly had much more forbidden allure.

At first spray on a strip, I dismissed it in favour of Cement and Wonderwood which initially were better. But luckily I sprayed one uninterested spray onto my arm. As Cement and Wonderwood were losing their charm, Rouge was evolving as the much better fragrance. It reminded me a little of Wonderwood but without the Encre Noire element and with brighter, glistening notes of beetroot and ginger.

Later that day (once I had washed off the other scents) I made sure to liberally spray this all over my neck. It’s herbaceous, aromatic and spicy with the usual CDG incense but it’s uplifting like a red hot chilli with a sparkling pomegranate ruby. I wasn’t expecting to enjoy the beetroot note so much, but it’s very realistic and amazing in this fragrance, especially when combined with the fresh ginger. I’m told I’m filling the room with my “amazing smell”. I’m smelling the top I was wearing when I sprayed it (as it clings to fabric very well) and I’m getting rosemary with other green herbs, pink pepper and fresh red chilli chopped up with ginger and pressed beetroot juice. I will get myself a bottle of this as I can’t fault it, it’s just so easy to wear for every occasion. A very good (unisex) fragrance indeed.

“I’m so non-physical…”

Polymorphic, Whimsical, Edgy. 3 adjectives that come to mind to describe this fragrance.
I smell this and picture many things: a Sabbath in the woods, an alternative kid wearing tartan, a church seen inside a dream, a nightclub frequented by vampires.

It’s earthy, yet surreal and fluorescent, painting a Lynchian picture of petrichor, incense and pepper. There’s a wet earth-y sweetness at its core given by the beetroot, which adds an almost bloody effect to the fragrance, enveloped by an aura of the most glamorous ethereal incense, with pink pepper and ginger at the opening to give it a dazzling kick.

Blood red, slate grey and neon pink all at once.

If this perfume were songs: Bunny Is A Rider - Caroline Polachek; Spellbound - Siouxsie & The Banshees; Blue Monday - HEALTH

The opening is great--beet and pink pepper should be used in combination more often because they're a really bright, sweet, juicy, happy combo. I'm not as into the drydown though. It reminds me of Avignon without the smokiness, which I think is maybe because the ginger is amped up here relative to the incense. It's too harsh when I put my nose to skin, but maybe it will be more enjoyable with a full wearing.

Edit: The more I try Rouge, the less I like it. Testing it for the third time and, while I still love the opening, I keep getting whiffs of the drydown as I move around and thinking I'm smelling nasty stale cigarette smoke. I think I'm actually going to have to scrub this one.

I, fortunately, work in between two Comme Des Garcons stores in central Tokyo (Omotesando). I frequent the stores on occasion and have built rapport with the staff at the flagship store. One of the store managers and I got to talking about fragrances and they shared that Rouge is singular in the CDG's collection, given how sexy it is as a fragrance. The house is not known for doing sexy as much as awkward, quirky, or punk fragrances.

Rouge is a promiscuous deviant but is in line with CDG's incense repertoire. It is captivating, memorable, elusive, and magnetic. It encapsulates a romance that begins with an energetic flirty blush to a post-coital flush.

A genuinely red experience.

Rouge is another unusual creation by CDG that was launched in 2020. However, if you’re familiar with CDG’s Incense line, then Rouge is not a big surprise to you.
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This is the Rouge story. From a spicy start with Ginger and pink pepper to the amber woody base with patchouli and labdanum. Meanwhile, CDG’s special incense sign brings texture to the whole composition. The most innovative thing about Rouge is the bloody red imagination that is shaped with Beetroot. Its special earthy, dusty, vegetal smell with some sweet nuances has taken root in the heart of Rouge while being supported by the metallic facet of Geranium.

تو عطرای اینسنسی و فلفل سیاه محور مدت ها بود کار یونیک و ارزشمندی ندیده بودم. یه رایحه لوکس، یونیسکس و جذاب که با رنگ باتلم همسوئه. چغندر نه شاید ولی اون حس لوکس قرمز رو داره و در بیس امبر و فضای بالزامیکی کارو کنترل میکنه. طرفدارای عطرای اینسنسی فلفلی مث من رو قطعا به وجد میاره
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Scent & Quality: 10/10
Longevity: 8/10
Sillage: 7/10
Creativity & Uniqueness: 10/10
Affordability: 5/10
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Overall: 8/10

I'm not sure how to feel about this one. It opens beautifully; I get all beetroot and pepper almost immediately, and it has a very nice fresh, spicy, slightly sweet smell. Then as it dries down, it starts to smell like a dentists office.. soapy, minty, and medicinal. If that's your kind of scent, go crazy on this one, but for me I was pretty disappointed.

Oh, dang! This one is so interesting.

It opens with an eye-opening burst of spiciness that’s just incredible. I definitely pick up freshly grated ginger, paired with the pink pepper and mint. It’s somehow both warm and bright. It’s utterly surprising and magical; I could not stop smelling my wrist for the first hour.

As that delicious spice opening wears away, I’m left with the most intoxicating incense. Typically, when I see incense listed as a note, I clock it as smokiness in the actual fragrance. But this is clear, bold incense, the kind you would smell at a Catholic mass. It has its own spiciness, which blends so beautifully with the peppery ginger opening.

So, what of the beets? Buried under everything there is an earthy sweetness that presumably comes from the beet note. My nose doesn’t quite distinguish it literally as beets, but it’s there. It grounds the fragrance in a subtle and necessary way.

I wasn’t sure what to expect from Rouge, but it definitely wasn’t a spicy, earthy Catholic mass.

Just gorgeous.

I love the idea of beetroot perfume. Love concepts behind CDG scents (not always wearable imho but cool). This is a perfect beetroot/ginger/mint/incense scent for a hot summer day also very different to almost everything out there.
I have an issue with these bottle though, FFS can we have an option to at least buy a stand for these bottles?!? So annoying this one just laying there on the shelf. That's a thing: yes cool concept, beautiful design, not practical in life.

A garden in the middle of the church
A successful variation of the brand's favorite note, incense, that manages to renew the genre thanks to its rising, crunchy and vegetal facets of sap, between sweet and earthy beetroot, bursting spicy ginger and minty accents of geranium. Dressing the usual resinous woody base of this type of composition, they give relief to its meditative character.
Absolutly gorgeous new type of composition and technically perfect

So I love this opening. Very fresh in a way, fascinating but a little sweeter than I usually go. Then it dries down a bit more, and smells exactly like beets just pulled from the earth. Lots of dirt, some sweet earthy beet, and something else that I can’t quite figure out. It was interesting, although not for me. By about 3 hours in, it started going soapy on me. I noticed it on my wrists first (they always shift/disappear first), then on my chest. I hate smelling clean because I am a filthy b!tch (does Fragrantica block saucy language??), so this is a firm no for me.

Rouge is amazing! It's very bright, bold, and optimistic. I love how it opens bright and juicy and later incense and labdanum make it more earthy and woody. I love it.

I like it, but it's a bit strong for me..recommend it

This scent is so very interesting. I will wear the sample with a sense of fun and exploration. But basically, between the beet root and the mint, this scent isn't really wearable to me. I found it just isn't what I want to carry around with me through the day.

On me, this is ginger through and through. Not a dry, powdered ginger you might bake with, or a fresh, earthy ginger root: no, this is Japanese gari, the pickled ginger you get on the side with your sushi. This ginger is wet, spicy, and briny. It fades in a linear fashion during the life cycle of this fragrance, with the pickling smells slowly overtaking the ginger itself.

The ginger in the opening shouts, instantly recognizable and sharp, like a display in a health food store. Three to four hours in, however, much of what remains is the strong smell of pickling, with vinegar and herbs, and the suggestion of ginger softened into the background. I smell vinegary brine, along with, perhaps, dill. This is no cucumber dill pickle, however; the vegetal matter being pickled here is piquant, homey, and sharp, with dill notes like those found in homemade pickles, not in the industrial jars of green liquid found in the store.

Five to six hours in, as the ginger fades entirely and the pickling herbs begin to die away, there's a faint whisper of sweet smoke that could be incense. Rouge makes you savor every moment of the savory vegetable smells, and rewards you with a hint of something smoky-sweet clinging to your skin at the end. At this point, I'll readily believe the leftover whiffs of pickling vinegar suggest beets, in all their earthy, briny glory. This scent is linear for a long while, and the twist towards a touch of smoke and earth in the drydown is an unexpected and amusing trick.

I picked up this sample for the beetroot. I actually don't detect anything I'd call beets here (except perhaps the suggestion of pickled beets in brine) and I've had a beet or two in my day. As a ginger lover, however, I'm surprised and enthralled. This is not a baking ginger, but a loud, wet, taunting, biting ginger that lets everyone know it is alive and it can fight. I don't get mint or even incense, either; all I get is ginger, lovingly pickled in a fascinating bath of vinegar and herbs.

Is Rouge the correct color moniker for this fragrance? Not for me. This is a sunny orange or salmon-colored pickled ginger smell, with bursts of bright yellow spice. This fragrance makes me crave something sweet. I sampled Mecheri's Ume on one arm today and this on the other, and alternating between the sugary plum cake and the pickled root vegetables was olfactory heaven.

This one is a little challenging and a lot gimmicky, but impressive and charming nonetheless. I'm not quite sure what sorts of occasions demand I smell like Japanese pickled ginger, but I look forward to them.

This was a love at first sniff for me! It's a bit hard to describe, and in my opinion it's very unique. This opens very tart (like a tart fruit), a bit zingy (I'm guessing from frankincense couple with ginger), and very slightly soapy. This deepens pretty quickly becoming sweet, warm, and spicy, while still remaining quite tart. I do get the impression of beets, but that may only be because I know it's a note in the fragrance. It's like beets that have been boiled and then roasted.

I get a lot of incense and resins, and at a point in the opening it's also slightly smoky. This doesn't have woody notes listed but it definitely gives the impression of woods especially in the dry down. There is also something earthy about it- I'm not sure if that's the beet root or the patchouli, or both. The dry down is woody, spicy, resinous, and still there is a tartness to it. To me this is gourmand, but not in the sense of a dessert...there is something mouthwatering and even addictive about this fragrance.

The performance is outstanding, lasting well over 12 hours. I would consider this completely unisex.

CdG delivering their trademark modernity and incense laden vibes, laced with fresh ideas.
The pink pepper and ginger of the opening give a sharp, piquant, almost tart, sweetness. The incense accord is both effervescent with olibanum and dense and grounded with labdanum. Then there's this evocation of beetroot, a kind of earthy thread throughout, probably created with careful dosing of cresols or geosmin, or a patchouli type material, fascinating effect.
What I love is that it's not the easiest wear, it provides some resistance and even challenge at times, and despite being instantly gratifying to fans of this sort of perfumery, (which I really am) it still evolves throughout the wear.
I felt it was a must have for me considering how much I love the brand and the idea of a beetroot accord.

i did not get the impression of beets at all from this. it's lovely and very sweet, somehow almost gourmand to me

Incense male aftershave soap scent. Totally. Great longevity on my skin.

Comme des Garcons Rouge is an odd and surprising scent, and at all not what I expected to smell from this glossy, cherry red popsicle of a bottle. It instead reminds me of an artwork by the fabulous, and flamboyant Argentinian painter, Leonor Fini  In Les Sorcieres, we observe five frenzied witches swarming and swooping on their broomsticks through a swirling blood-red sky. This scent mirrors these feverish sensations of airy, dizzying fizziness and couples them with a terrestrial earthiness, like herbs and leaves and things freshly dug from a garden patch. Rouge smells like an effervescent shrub (the vinegary drink, not the bushy plant. But also minus most of the vinegar) of rhubarb and beet, fiery ginger root, and floral pink pepper. A witch's cauldron tipple that tapers to a beautiful gingery incense.

I would have liked this better had they toned down the incense. I know it's a signature CDG note but I think this could have done with less of it.

Edit: The problem with this perfume is not the incense, it's the ginger. Too sharp.

This is great! so wearable! As usual CdG tricks you with odors. This is a very very nice take on incense, gingery and with the slightliest whiff of mint. There's also some sweetness to balance this out. They say beetroot, but to me it smells more of fig fruit. Somehow reminescent of L'ile pourpre by Liquides Immaginaires, this one being way sweeter.
But overall great one again with Comme, happy and youthful. This could have been perfect on their incense series

Smells like a cross between Mauboussin M Generation and some aspects of YSL L'homme Libre. Very incency. M Generation is much stronger/louder/in your face (bad idea to overspray), while Rouge is understated. I can detect traces of rhubarb (the beets?) that add to the fragrance, but it is not a dominant part of the composition; its like looking at the brush strokes that create the overall painting or listening for the exact elements that make up the drum line in your favorite song. The overall impression that I get is a spicy incense smell in the vein of M Generation, although for a moment I could smell the dill/cucumber smell that scents like L'Homme Libre and others have before the overall impression of the scent took form.

I like it but to me it smells like dille, spices and cucumber together. I smell a Russian/Ukrainian dish. Not great, not terrible. Just kidding;

Its nice. Especially for people who love the smell of a biological supermarket.
Smells very ‘healthy’.
Not sexy.

Imagine you're out in your garden digging beets out of the wet dirt, there's some incense smoking nearby, and the beets you pull out are already pickled... that's Rouge. Unique & odd but still wearable scent. Unisex.

Not personally into this one. It feels a bit flat and one dimensional. That dimension is gingery, incense-y, pleasant but not exactly interesting. That's not to say this is a common scent, very few perfumes lean in this direction (a lot of people are saying beetroot, but I've never eaten or smelled beets before). Definitely does a good job at being intimate whilst working as a unisex fragrance.

If you love Incense, labdanum, ginger, pepper and above all BEETS, check this out. I've been waiting for my bottle of Rouge patiently since its release date and it did not disappoint.
First off, there is a truckload of beetroot in this. Anyone who can't feel it, either have never smelled/eaten beets or needs a PCR test asap.
Plot twist: beet root can be sexy in a fragrance. Who knew? Rouge starts off with loads of incence (along the lines of Epic Woman Amouage and Floriental CDG), pepper, ginger and patchouli. The similarities with Epic and Floriental are just an idea of the general mood, Rouge is much softer and almost sneaky quiet compared to them. But it does get under your skin with finesse.
This initial blast of Incence and spice is soon going down to a ground level by the beets and their earthy, slightly sweet, flesh-like soil aroma and it stays until the end, as does the incence. Opening and mid phase is thick but in no way heavy and lingers between sweet-tart and barely bitter, just like the sediment of a nice red wine bottle.
Lasting power on skin: 6+ hours solid, before it becomes a skin scent.
The one thing I don't feel at all from the pyramid is mint.
Moderate sillage within arm's length.
Versatility: I have no trouble wearing this day or night, Rouge is such a seductive, comforting scent. A big YES for ME ♥️

Incense bomb on my skin. Though it opens with peppery ginger, it just turns into a full-on incense attack after 15 minutes. I can still get some of the other notes, such as the pepper, patchouli, mint, and that chromed-red undertone, but still, the incense is too strong. If you love incense perfumes, this could make a sultry autumn-winter addition to your wardrobe for your nights out. If not, try with caution.
Projection is crazy, but I don't know how long it lasts because I got home after testing it, and my partner politely demanded me to shower. But even after a shower, I can still smell the incense on my hand after rubbing it with scented shower gel.

7/10

I half expected this to be unwearable but tried it because I had to smell the beet note. Rouge is instantly very likeable and not shocking in the least, if nobody had told me "beets" I would have assumed the vegetal aspect was rhubarb with a dash of that wet soil note found in Zoologist's Bat. I would not call this a gourmand, its a expansive, airy, woody, incense fragrance sort of like Timbuktu but with an inventive vegetal-tangy aspect in lieu of Timbuktu's grassy/mango accord. I see this as a kind of evolution of the fruitchouli scent, the beet/rhubarb effect isn't actually 'sweet' at all, but its muddy warmth still somehow makes a great contrast with the patchouli and mint, all on top of a bed of transparent but strong incense. Check this out, its a seriously wonderful perfume not a gimmick!

This is definitely a departure from the woderwood/wonderoud/floriental CdG scents of last decade and has more in common with CdG 2 (thanks to the pachouli note) than with any other pebble bottle/Puig CdG scent. Wearable, yet intriguing and very CdG. Opens up with beetroot and pink pepper, which quickly give way to a pachouli, ginger and incense dominant dry down. A must have for any CdG fan. Excellent longevity and sillage. Brilliant!

On me, this opens with ginger, peppermint, and beet juice...and stays that way through the entire wear. It reminds me exactly of the juice cleanses I used to do in the 2010s. And who wants to smell like a juice cleanse? I am all for odd fragrancies, but this one is just a miss on me.

On me this opens with bright cranberry (sauce), pine, and pink peppercorn.

This quickly fades into the heart of (very sweet) beetroot and incense. Beetroot lends its earthiness and sweetness but it’s well balanced with the cranberry carrying over into the heart.

Eventually the cranberry fades, leaving the beetroot and incense along with some woodiness (I would say birch).

It’s definitely much softer and less clinical than most CDG offerings, unfortunately also less longevity and sillage for me. It’s a wonderfully funky winter/holiday scent but is too weak to cut through the cold weather (not that you would need to wear this “out” due to the pandemic).

This scent is so cool! Weird in the CdG way as usual.

In the opening it starts vegetal beetroot, damp soil, spicy pepper, and juicy berries. It’s like a glass of ruby coloured juice processed from a clean lab

But then it takes a big turn in the dry down to become very dry woods, so dry like a box of matches, a strike with a little spark will set them on fire.

A rouge fragrance indeed

Fresh beetroot juice, sweet and bright. A dash of powdered ginger on the tongue. Sacred incense envelopes you.

One word came to mind:

ARIZONA

It transported me back to my days in the desert. The effect of the bright opening giving way to scorching dry earth and air. The inescapable dryness.

One of the most low-key or easy-to-wear scents, Comme des Garcons-wise (which means almost nothing, given grilled cigarettes and industrial glue are standard base notes). Still retains the maison DNA, largely due to the incense. Also has the universally personal evocative power of CDG fragrances, evidenced by my brief retreat to the desert above. Entrancing. There's also a humanity here that most CDGs lack. By that I mean:

I can see this being worn by humans, and not just cyborgs. Kooky humans though, with maybe an odd and confusing sensuality.

'Ladies pinch, whores use rouge.' Mrs Bouvier's words to Marge on The Simpsons came to mind when I read about this new release. This perfume is a boudoir rouge full of powder and incense.

On paper it smells like it could belong the Sherbet series as it has an effervescent candy sweetness to it. On my skin it skips past this and opens up to the most glamorous incense. The beetroot adds some sweetness but mostly a vegetal earthy quality. The pink pepper is beautiful, radiant and floral while the ginger isn't freshly cut but dry and powdered. All of this softens the incense which to me is primarily an airy and glistening frankincense.

This came out of nowhere and is a truly beautiful scent. It's accessible yet unusual. This makes a great companion to CDG 3 which is one of my all-time favourites.