Tabac Rouge

• Evening
• Romantic

Tabac Rouge by Phaedon captures a moment of intense, almost incandescent heat, where tobacco becomes a living material.

From the opening, the fragrance makes a strong, warm entrance. Tobacco comes through straight away, dense and spicy, with a lightly sweet facet that recalls warm smoke, almost gourmand. The effect is warm and intense, with heat that builds quickly.

The fragrance then gains depth and richness. The spices meet a rounder, almost honeyed softness that tempers the tobacco without ever overpowering it. Everything becomes more textured and more sensual, a warmth that settles in and takes its time.

Over time, Tabac Rouge rests on a dark, addictive base where the tobacco grows softer, almost velvety. It is warm, comforting and memorable, with real depth.

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.