Rare Beauty · 2025 · Jérôme Epinette

Rare

Premium$$$, 3 of 5
Rare Beauty asks $78 for 50 ml
50 ml$78

VersionEau de Parfum

Caramel and pistachio with pink pepper, then vanilla, spicy ginger and cocoa, drying to sandalwood, tonka and skin musk.

Rare Beauty says

You’ll smell caramel, pistachio, Pink Pepper, vanilla, ginger, Cocoa Beans, sandalwood, Tonka Beans and Skin Musks.

The house’s page

Top noteswhen you spray it

Heartas it settles

Dry-downwhat stays

Rare’s scent picture, a draft: caramel, pink pepper, vanilla (vanillin), ginger, cacao, sandalwood drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

Top noteswhen you spray it

Rare, top notes: Caramel, Pistachio, Pink pepper, Sweet orange

Heartas it settles

Rare, heart: Vanilla (vanillin), Ginger, Cacao

Dry-downwhat stays

Rare, dry-down: Sandalwood, Tonka (coumarin), Skin musks, Iso E Super (pencil shavings)

What’s inside it

What Rare Beauty names

CaramelPistachioPink PepperVanillaGingerCocoa BeansSandalwoodTonka BeansSkin Musks

What the label names

18 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 citrus3 herbs & lavender3 florals2 woods2 sweet1 amber & resins2 spices1 powder

Citrus4

LimoneneBitter orange oilCitralTerpinolene

Herbs & lavender3

PineneLinaloolLinalyl acetate

Florals3

Benzyl salicylateHydroxycitronellalRose ketones

Woods2

Iso E Super (pencil shavings)Ebanol

Sweet2

Vanillin (vanilla)Coumarin (tonka)

Amber & resins1

Benzyl cinnamate

Spices2

beta-CaryophylleneIsoeugenyl acetate

Powder1

Anise alcohol
6 more lines on the label: 1 not yet in Ingredients, 5 not there for the smell

Not in Ingredients yet1

Polycitronellol, not in Ingredients yet

Not for the smell5

AlcoholWaterBenzyl alcoholBenzyl benzoatePentaerythrityl tetra-di-t-butyl hydroxyhydrocinnamate, not in Ingredients yet

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Our match of the notes

Shares its notes

Vanilla 01Swiss Arabian · shares caramel, pink pepper, vanilla, sandalwood and 2 more$68 for 50 ml · about the same as Rare’s $78
AnghamLattafa · shares pink pepper, vanilla, ginger, cacao and 1 more$49.99 for 100 ml · about a third of Rare’s $78
AniNishane · shares pink pepper, vanilla, ginger, sandalwood and 1 more$375 for 100 ml · about twice Rare’s $78

Matched by the notes each house names. A shared note is not a promise they smell alike.