by Butterfly-Wings

Created on: May 22, 2008   Last Updated: May 24, 2008

My local Avon representative gave me a sample of Christian Lacroix Rouge perfume to sample in September last year. I fell in love with the scent of the perfume almost instantly and decided to purchase a bottle of it; I love the scent that much that I have already polished off three bottles of it and have a fourth one on the way. The fragrance was launched in September 2007 in partnership with Avon; Avon currently sell Rouge for the price of 18 for a 50ml bottle. There is also a male version available too and this is called Noir which smells just as nice as the female version.

Fragrance Notes
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Christian Lacroix Rouge is described as having ~

Top Notes of white pepper, orange and red peony
The top notes are the first phase of the perfume; they are usually the most volatile and evaporate from the skin very quickly. The top notes are usually very light and refreshing and their scent usually lasts for anything between five and ninety minutes.

Middle (Heart) notes of Osmanthus flower, Japanese plum blossom and Amazonian water lily
The middle notes of a scent are therapeutic and balancing oils, sometimes the middle notes are often referred to as the heart notes of a scent. The middle notes are not always evident and can take between thirty and sixty minutes to develop on your skin, and they last for anything between two to four hours

Base notes of cashmere woods, patchouli and musk
The base notes are the longest lasting notes in a fragrance, most perfumes use the same base notes. This is because they give the perfume more staying power and stop the top and middle notes from evaporating from your skin as quickly.

The Scent
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As soon as you spray the scent you can immediately detect a few different fragrance notes, the fragrance has a warm spicy scent at first and then this spiciness is accompanied with a citrus fruit and floral aroma. The spicy aroma which I could detect was in fact white pepper, I usually don't wear scents which have spicy notes in them because I find them too strong and overpowering, I think the main reason I like this scent as much is because the spiciness isn't strong or overpowering and it is masked somewhat with orange and red peony top notes.

The top notes of this fragrance seemed to last for quite sometime before they gradually faded, the white pepper top note lingered a lot longer than the orange and red peony notes; I would say that the white pepper note lingered for approximately 4 hours or so where as the red peony and orange

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