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Sculptures Olfactives

Mon nom est rouge Majda Bekkali 2012

7.9 / 10 188 Ratings

A popular perfume by Majda Bekkali for women and men, released in 2012. The scent is spicy-floral. The longevity is above-average. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Spicy

Floral

Resinous

Smoky

Woody

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Elemi resin

Frankincense

Pink pepper

Geranium

Rosewood

Heart Notes

Turkish rose

Cardamom

Cumin

Ginger

Cinnamon

Base Notes

Labdanum

Sandalwood Amber

Amber

Patchouli

Tonka bean Vanilla

Vanilla

Atlas cedar

Blond tobacco

Perfumer

Cécile Zarokian

Ratings

Scent

7.9188 Ratings

Longevity

8.7152 Ratings

Sillage

7.9153 Ratings

Bottle

8.3152 Ratings

Value for money

7.439 Ratings

Submitted by DonVanVliet, last update on 06/20/2025.

Interesting Facts

The fragrance is part of the Sculptures Olfactives collection.

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Reviews

8 in-depth fragrance descriptions

02/16/2014

7Scent 10Longevity 7.5Sillage

Gold
726 Reviews

Gold

5

Deep, red, metallic

„Deep, red, metallic ”
"Mon nom est rouge" is a very complex, rather special composition. Perfumer Cécile Zarokian created a powerful and persistent fragrances which starts like a volcanic eruption (pepper, lemon, aldehydes, elemi, metallic notes). Characterized as a "spiced rose" by Madja Bekkali herself, I find it hard to call this a rose-scent at all. Yes, there is some rose in it, but I'm incapable of detecting the "rose with a velvety sensation", which Bekkali promised in an interview. I smell a huge amount of cardamom, cumin and cinnamon. In an impossible attempt to soften those spices, frankincense, sandalwood, tonka bean and patchouli are brought into play and contribute to the bold and assertive aura of this fragrance. "Mon nom est rouge" is very opulent with the rose in the background and the precious caradom-frankincense-cumin-combo centre-stage. It carries on the grand oriental tradition of spicy, deep and intense perfumes and it is loaded with mysterious overtones.
Piquant flashes of cumin keep coming up for hours and hours, while the other association I had when wearing this scent was indeed a "metallic taste of blood" also mentioned by Bekkali. (Those who know the fragrance "Bull's Blood" from the "Imaginary Author's" series might compare those two fragrances and detect some parallels). "Mon nom est rouge" blooms best at night when your own warm blood stirs the spicy-metallic ingredients, resulting in a disturbing kind of intoxication. This stuff might add a touch of sorcery to your fragrance-wardrobe.

06/20/2025

10Scent 10Longevity 10Sillage

Myrtillajus
530 Reviews

Myrtillajus

Helpful Review 3

One of my must haves

Mon Nom est Rouge has made its way directly into my "must-haves."
With the first spray, I was left stunned: a powerful blend of notes that instantly reminded me of the scent of a dried red rose, surrounded by spices. As it develops, this rose creates a perfect harmony with the incense, evoking a sense of well-being and even a certain freshness. I can't help but keep sniffing my wrist; it's a masterpiece.
I feel transported to an Oriental night, perhaps in Istanbul, where Pamuk’s namesake book is set. Beautiful, passionate, sensual. The longevity and sillage are remarkable.

12/22/2014

6Scent

Rickbr
190 Reviews

Rickbr

Too Much Amber

Since amber fragrances are not necessarily my favorite style, i moderately appreciate this one. The problem for me with an amber accord is that it ends dominating a fragrance and give it a kind of a standar amber face - incensy, sweet in a muffled way, a little bit grey maybe. What makes this more interesting to me is the focus on the fresh, incense aspect at first - which seems to me to be curiously openened by a bright aldehydic aroma, which reforces the fresh aspects of incense, and it's extended by the spicy pink pepper note (a similar effect can be seen on Le Labo Baie Rose 26). Close to skin you notice a sweet cinnamon and rose aroma which seems to be related to the rouge in the fragrance name. But after some hours it ends in a standard, but balanced, amber accord. Not something that i would need a bottle i guess.

04/22/2014

9Scent 7.5Longevity 7.5Sillage

Cilly
33 Reviews

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Cilly

Top Review 38

MY NAME IS RED - Personalized color captured in a fragrance

This fragrance has been occupying my thoughts for months, haunting me, running through my mind repeatedly, making me spray it in the middle of the day, in the midst of work, inhaling it, feeling it, drifting off mentally, forgetting my tasks...

It started, as so often, with the lovely Belle sending me a generous sample. I was spontaneously captivated by this beautiful rose scent, and at the same time, it left me puzzled. What does the unusual name have to do with the actual fragrance?

To better understand the scent, I not only ordered the bottle but also the book 'Red is My Name' by Orhan Pamuk. At least I wanted to get a sense of why the Bekkali house oriented itself around this book title. But to read all 550 pages, I need peace and more time than I currently have. According to the blurb, it is supposed to be "a colorful oriental fairy tale, an exciting crime story, and a charming love story."

But then I found this sentence on page 251:

"And how happy I am to be Red! My innermost being burns. I am strong; I know that I am perceived, and also that you cannot resist me."

Even if it is just this one fragment of text - it evokes the right images. I don’t want to invoke the 'Lady in Red', but I can't help but envision a dark red velvet fabric elegantly draped around a feminine figure, striding almost regally, trailing and leaving behind a veil of fragrance.

It's clear that I am NOT that. One must remain grounded. But the sentence describes what the fragrance does to me. I feel strong and - yes - irresistible. With or without red velvet.

After a lemony-peppery overture, a freshly blooming rose reveals itself, surrounded by wonderful oriental spices, led by a distinct cardamom. I cannot perceive any metallic notes, even though they would fit the velvet-clad figure as exquisite jewelry. The more the rose opens, the darker and more glowing the color becomes, just like the scent. Frankincense wafts around this magnificent rose, not as strong as I would like it to be, but clear and delicate and never smoky. Until finally, the woody notes drift in, sweetly fine-bitter and ground to powder. The rose remains until the end. Red is my name.

Someday I will have time to read the book in its entirety. And I will save a sufficient amount of the fragrance to spray it on before I dive into the story. Perhaps everything is quite different...

10/30/2013

9Scent

Terra
646 Reviews

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Terra

Top Review

Cuddle Church

Who stole Duchaufour's incense? When I sprayed this scent on my arm, I thought this symphony could be from him. The incense is as smoky-dry through the spices as in Kyoto or Timbuktu, but fundamentally, it's an illusion. Over time, you notice more and more that it is a very bright and sparkling incense that shines through repeatedly. However, the many spices and the beautifully sweet-soft and oriental notes it is combined with make it seem so dark-smoky. Mon Nom est Rouge is therefore a wonderful, oriental incense fragrance. Spicy and ambery notes make everything soft and delicious, without ever forgetting the main theme. The rose appears here less as a rose and more as the "metallic note" depicted in the pyramid. The blood of a tragedy - it belongs to the love story that this scent tells. It doesn't disturb; it's a subtly discreet contrast that keeps Mon Nom est Rouge from becoming boring and instead tells a story. A scent that feels totally harmonious to me, which is completely underestimated.

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