Rouge Comme des Garçons 2020

For all my fellow perfume lovers out there, if you want a good novel with perfume as a central plot point, Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins is the pick for me. Robbins is a hilarious writer, and the titular perfume in the novel is made with base notes of beetroot. Since reading this book years ago I've been a bit obsessed with the idea of a beetroot perfume. I love beets, and the mysterious soil/vegetal smell they have. This perfume, I think, delivers on that fantasy while being very sexy at the same time. On first smell you mostly get patchouli, incense, ginger, but the complex earthy beet smell lingers underneath. I get lots of compliments on it, and yet it still fulfills the wish I have to wear something a bit unexpected. Beautiful.