Kilian Paris · 2012 · Calice Becker

Forbidden Games

Top luxury$$$$$, 5 of 5

VersionEau de Parfum

Honey-drizzled peach and blackcurrant with a hint of cinnamon, over rose and jasmine, settling onto honey and vanilla.

The drawn Forbidden Games bottle

Top noteswhen you spray it

Heartas it settles

Dry-downwhat stays

Forbidden Games’s scent picture, a draft: peach, blackcurrant, rose, jasmine, honey, vanilla (vanillin) drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

Top noteswhen you spray it

Forbidden Games, top notes: Peach, Blackcurrant, Geranium, Sweet orange

Heartas it settles

Forbidden Games, heart: Rose, Jasmine, Cinnamon, Apple, Plum

Dry-downwhat stays

Forbidden Games, dry-down: Honey, Vanilla (vanillin), Opoponax, Hexadecanolactone (musk)

What’s inside it

What the label names

25 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.

4 citrus4 herbs & lavender10 florals1 woods2 sweet2 spices1 musks1 powder

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

Not for the smell5

AlcoholWaterBenzyl benzoateBenzyl alcoholTetrasodium edta, not in Ingredients yet

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Our match of the notes

Shares its notes

NefsNishane · shares rose, jasmine, honey, vanilla and 2 more$665 for 50 ml · about twice Forbidden Games’s $295
Eden Juicy Apple 01Kayali · shares blackcurrant (cassis), rose, jasmine, vanilla and 1 moreabout $146 for 100 ml · about a quarter of Forbidden Games’s $295
L'Aventure GoldAl Haramain · shares blackcurrant (cassis), rose, jasmine, vanilla and 1 more$54.42 for 100 ml · about a tenth of Forbidden Games’s $295
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Matched by the notes each house names. A shared note is not a promise they smell alike.