Audition Phronema Perfumes 2024

Audition by Phronema Perfumes is an extremely cozy and beautiful gourmand. It is my favorite offering from Phronema next to No Longer Human and Souichi's Selfish Curse. I have gone through my entire sample of this and currently have a full bottle on the way in the mail.

Audition opens with a beautiful waxy blast of honey and cocoa. As time goes on, soft raspberry and vanilla notes emerge and blend perfectly with the strong honey and cocoa. I also detect orris butter, cinnamon, and tonka bean as well. The combination of all of these notes results in what I believe is one of the best gourmand fragrances on the market and one that you have to try if you are a gourmand lover.

This is a great scent, I’ve always found vanilla forward fragrances to be generic and redundant but this really changed my view. It starts slightly spicy and very warm vanilla and as it dries down it tames, the vanilla gets less spicy and a lot softer. It starts to have a childlike feeling that’s very nostalgic. It’s the smell of being a little kid. Slowly this gets more woody and gritty from the ambergris. It has amazing performance (8-9 hours)