Aldebaran Marc-Antoine Barrois 2025

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6.7 / 10 158 Ratings

A new perfume by Marc-Antoine Barrois for women and men, released in 2025. The scent is floral-creamy. Projection and longevity are above-average.

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Main accords

Floral

Creamy

Sweet

Green

Spicy

Fragrance Notes

Tuberose absolute

Bell pepper

Tonka bean Maté

Maté

Perfumer

Quentin Bisch

Ratings

Scent

6.7158 Ratings

Longevity

8.5134 Ratings

Sillage

8.2136 Ratings

Bottle

8.0131 Ratings

Value for money

6.8102 Ratings

Submitted by TheBladi11, last update on 04/28/2025.

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Reviews

12 in-depth fragrance descriptions

04/07/2025

Borose
1 Review

Borose

6

Aldebaran the ancient star that guides to the East

It’s the exact scent of a 'gajra', the fresh tuberose flowers that are strung by hand on a thread and sold in indian streets in the morning for 20 roupies, they are worn wrapped around wrists, hair or offered to gods during pooja. Beautiful realistic fragrance: it’s Bombay monsoon, the gajra mingles with the humid air, the warm skin, and the rain ; the flowers soaked in scent and weather. It simply captures this moment of wearing a gajra bracelet all day in Bombay. It's devotional, sensual, nostalgic, sacred and roadside tea boiling at the chai-wala corner smell at once.
Bought a bottle today so I can be wrapped again in those memory of delicious rain-drenched days with gajra in India. After all, Aldebaran is the royal star, the one that is the East. And it really does light the way back to my favourite place in the East!

04/20/2025

Myrtillajus
517 Reviews

Myrtillajus

2

Unique

To the ancient Egyptians, the star of Aldebaran was connected with the eye of Horus, the sky god and king of Egypt.
Four hundred times brighter than the sun, it is represented as the second star of the floral constellation by Marc Antoine Barrois.
Its color is red, often associated with passion, and what flower more appropriate than the tuberose to represent the "star of fire" ?
To describe Aldebaran as a fragrance starring the narcotic flower par excellence would be extremely reductive.
Here we are in front of a creation by Quentin Bisch (and yes, I love him), which strips itself of pleasingness and heads towards an extremely artistic dimension.
A not-so-obvious tuberose, which to its heady notes adds the mate grass (it seems to perceive it in powder form), with nuances that I perceive almost metallic, very particular.
I had to smell it on my skin several times to understand it, because it has a really not obvious construction, and it becomes a real sensory journey.
Go and smell it, it's really particular, it comes out of the box, and you will realize that you will be more and more intrigued by its uniqueness.
Of course in my collection, I wear it when I want to feel indecipherable, unique.
And here I mention the mystique of Egyptian art , which represents it perfectly .

04/23/2025

NicheOnly
78 Reviews

NicheOnly

2

Edgy doesn't mean good

Loudly for the people in the back: being different for the sake of it doesn't make you cool. This feels like a moniker that I should adapt any time a new release comes out from French "designer niche house" Marc-Antoine Barrois. Just like with Tilia last year, the product offered isn't that far from what is already available in the market, yet somehow there's enough here to stay in the realm of their brand image.

I've experienced the Aldebaran twice now and the difference is quite pronounced on paper vs. on skin. The scent opens with a very strong green-aromatic floral tonality, flanked by a puzzling smoky-woody touch. I believe this is the listed maté note which I've also experienced in this fashion before in Clive Christian's Matsukita. Shortly thereafter, the notes and accords settle with the scent mostly smelling of creamy tuberose, flanked by a green backbone and light sweetness from the tonka.

The contrast of notes comes off fairly artsy relative to where niche perfumery is nowadays, but quirkiness doesn't mean the product has good quality nor wearability. I'd even argue that in many cases, it just leaves you with an outdated product. Just last year Maison Crivelli had a strong release in the tuberose realm with Tubéreuse Astrale, a fragrance that also features osmanthus and carrot seed, i.e. notes that co-star well with the tuberose. Meanwhile, Aldebaran doesn't have those notes which is a key reason why this scent comes off like a more typical tuberose-neroli fragrance with an added tonka. The strength of the scent is on-par with the house's other products and the blending isn't as rough, i.e. the synthetic nature isn't left as exposed; but the product just doesn't deliver anything besides loud & rarer profile; both of which are categories where the aforementioned Crivelli is superior.

04/10/2025

Mirena
6 Reviews

Mirena

1

... zklamání

..zpočátku krásná vzdušná tuberoza.

Opravdu, jako by jste k tuberoze lehce přivoněli v nočním chladivem vzduchu.

Po chvilince se přidá maté, příjemné,

snadno rozpoznatelné, a pořád je vůně pekná, načechraná, taková povznášející.

Jenže za další chvíli ze mě tuberoza zmizí, absolutně.

Na kůži mi zbyde jen tepla zelená tráva.

Zklamání...

04/27/2025

Reddawks
16 Reviews

Reddawks

1

niche vs designer

Debates around niche vs designer perfumes are everywhere online.
Everyone has their own opinion, their own interpretation.
I once read that since Marc-Antoine Barrois is also a fashion brand, it should be classified as "designer."
If your definition of niche leads you to put the house behind Ganymede in the "designer" category, then maybe your definition needs a little rethinking.
With Aldebaran, at least, there will be no question: this is pure niche.
A floral composition, touched with paprika or green pepper notes, maté, tonka bean...
Doesn't ring any bells? That's normal.
As often with true niche perfumes, the listed notes only tell part of the story.
Aldebaran is a perfume you must smell to truly understand — a divisive scent, a discreet yet passionate tuberose.
Unique.

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