Baptême Ambré

• Evening
• Casual
• Cosy

Baptême Ambré by Phaedon follows the house’s particular approach: telling the story of a moment, almost a rite of passage, through a scent material. Here amber becomes a symbol of a first contact, a new warmth, an emotion that gently settles in.

From the opening, the fragrance gives a cocooning, reassuring feel, like warmth coming to rest on the skin. The ambery notes appear at once, soft and luminous, almost caressing, with a slightly resinous facet that adds depth.

Then the fragrance moves towards something more intimate and sensual. The softness intensifies, becoming creamier and more cocooning, as if the warmth were gradually taking root.

Over time, Baptême Ambré settles into a soft, lingering base, where the amber grows more present, almost skin to skin. The signature becomes reassuring, warm and deeply human.

Phaedon Paris is a French perfume house founded in the mid-2000s by two Parisian aesthetes, great travellers with a passion for ancient cultures. Its name was chosen with care: Phaedo of Elis, a Greek slave born in 400 BC, taken prisoner during the war between Elis and Sparta. Bought back by a friend of Socrates, he was serving at table one evening when, answering a question put by a guest, he was overheard by Socrates himself. Phaedo would later give his name to one of Plato's most famous dialogues. It is this emblem, of freedom won through intelligence and beauty, that the house chose for its name. Phaedon's visual identity expresses the same depth: two Assyrian griffins taken from a bas-relief from the palace of Darius, on display at the Louvre, crown the logo. The whole aesthetic embraces what the house calls 'baroque naturalism', a richly coloured blend of Etruscan motifs, fig leaves, irises and reeds, and a dreamlike bestiary between the Mediterranean and Asia, laid out like a travel journal crossed with an Art Deco botanical plate. Since the early 2010s, the fragrances have been produced under the artistic direction of perfumer Pierre Guillaume, in his workshops in France. A house that composes its fragrances the way one brings rare objects back from a journey: with memory, precision and a keen sense of what resembles nothing else.