French Avenue · 2021

After Effect

Budget$, 1 of 5

The houseUnisex

VersionExtrait de Parfum

Boozy rum and sweet vanilla over tobacco, drying to warm cinnamon spice.

French Avenue says

You’ll smell rum, vanilla, tobacco and cinnamon.

Top noteswhen you spray it

Heartas it settles

Dry-downwhat stays

After Effect’s scent picture, a draft: rum, vanilla, tobacco, cinnamon, limonene (orange peel) drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

Top noteswhen you spray it

After Effect, top notes: Rum, Vanilla, Limonene (orange peel)

Heartas it settles

After Effect, heart: Tobacco

Dry-downwhat stays

After Effect, dry-down: Cinnamon

What’s inside it

What French Avenue names

What the label names

3 scent ingredients on the label, familiar names first.

A label must name certain ingredients, most of them ones that can cause allergies; some houses print more. It is never the whole recipe.

1 citrus1 herbs & lavender1 spices

Herbs & lavender1

Spices1

2 more lines on the label, not there for the smell

Not for the smell2

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Wearers say

Smells like it

For more

Side EffectInitio · Some of its own wearers call After Effect a cheaper copy of it$420 for 90 ml

What wearers say, set beside the price each house asks. Noses differ.

Our match of the notes

Shares its notes

Side EffectInitio · shares rum, tobacco and cinnamon$420 for 90 ml
ÉbèneBalmain · shares vanilla, tobacco and cinnamon$190 for 50 ml
Love DelightAmouage · shares rum, vanilla and cinnamon$395 for 100 ml
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Matched by the notes each house names. A shared note is not a promise they smell alike.