Versace · 2018

Eros Flame

Mid-range$$, 2 of 5
Versace asks $149 for 100 ml
100 ml$149

VersionEau de Parfum

Bitter chinotto orange, lemon and black pepper with rosemary, over geranium and rose, drying to patchouli, vetiver, tonka and vanilla.

Versace says

You’ll smell Chinotto Accord, Madagascar Black Pepper, Wild Rosemary, pepperwood, Patchouli Coeur Orpur, Haitian Vetiver and vanilla.

More from Versace’s description

It also mentions Lemon, Tangerine, Bitter orange, Black pepper, Geranium, Rose, Texas cedar, Patchouli coeur, Mountain oak moss accord, Sandalwood, Tonka bean, Black Pepper, Wild Mountain Rosemary, Patchouli Coeur, Lemon, Tangerine, Orange, Black pepper, Geranium, Rose facet, Cedar, Patchouli and Tonka beans.

The house’s page

Top noteswhen you spray it

Heartas it settles

Dry-downwhat stays

Eros Flame’s scent picture, a draft: black pepper, rosemary, woody notes, patchouli, vetiver, vanilla drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

Top noteswhen you spray it

Eros Flame, top notes: Chinotto accord, Black pepper, Lemon, Mandarin, Bitter orange, Geranium, Sweet orange

Heartas it settles

Eros Flame, heart: Rosemary, Woody notes, Rose

Dry-downwhat stays

Eros Flame, dry-down: Patchouli, Vetiver, Vanilla, Cedar, Oakmoss, Sandalwood, Tonka (coumarin)

What’s inside it

What Versace names

Madagascar Black PepperWild RosemaryPepperwoodPatchouli Coeur OrpurHaitian VetiverVanillaLemonTangerineBitter orangeGeraniumRoseTexas cedarMountain oak moss accordSandalwoodTonka beanOrangeCedarPatchouli

What the label names

8 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.

2 citrus1 herbs & lavender2 florals1 sweet1 spices1 powder

Citrus2

LimoneneCitral

Herbs & lavender1

Linalool

Florals2

CitronellolGeraniol

Sweet1

Coumarin (tonka)

Spices1

Isoeugenol

Powder1

alpha-Isomethyl ionone (powder puff)
5 more lines on the label, not there for the smell

Not for the smell5

AlcoholWaterOctinoxate (a UV filter)Avobenzone (a UV filter)Octisalate (a UV filter)

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Our match of the notes

Shares its notes

ErosVersace · shares patchouli, vetiver, vanilla, lemon and 6 more$129 for 100 ml · about the same as Eros Flame’s $149
BeautifulEstée Lauder · shares patchouli, vetiver, vanilla, mandarin and 5 more$115 for 75 ml · about the same as Eros Flame’s $149
Lyric WomanAmouage · shares patchouli, vetiver, vanilla, geranium (rose geranium) and 4 more$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.