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Rendez-vous ! Sonia Sieff 2024

7.6 / 10 52 Ratings

A new perfume by Sonia Sieff for women and men, released in 2024. The scent is powdery-floral. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Powdery

Floral

Spicy

Smoky

Woody

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Rhubarb

Gun powder

Heart Notes

Iris

Peony

Base Notes

Benzoin

Gaiac wood

Perfumer

Antoine Lie

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Ratings

Scent

7.652 Ratings

Longevity

7.849 Ratings

Sillage

7.249 Ratings

Bottle

7.440 Ratings

Value for money

7.117 Ratings

Submitted by OPomone, last update on 10/04/2025.

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6 in-depth fragrance descriptions

12/09/2024

10Scent 9Longevity 6Sillage

Nikkun
17 Reviews

Nikkun

1

Silky Gunpowder

A truly intriguing scent! It opens with a distinct yet impressionistic note of gunpowder (smoky, ashy, and metallic) which almost immediately sets Rendez-vous! apart from most other iris fragrances. It feels like Antoine Lie’s managed to blend powdery orris butter and ashy/heavily textural aldehydes in such a way that it creates an olfactory impression of smoke that's cold, metallic, silky, "silvery", yet soft powdery makeupy and at the same time botanical.

The ionone/irone facets anchor this as a 100% iris scent, yet it remains very unconventional and artistic. Trying to be as descriptive as possible, this smells like a combination of Panthea Iris (but sharper, less fruity, and far more austere), Dior Homme Intense (the amberwoods and the slight, make-upy suede) and the scent of unburned matches. As a concept, it reminds me of Naomi Goodsir's modern style a bit, but it's definitely different from Iris Cendre's strong suede character.

It definitely feels cinematic, perhaps like a 1970s noir film about modern vampires (or maybe I've just read too much vampire fiction lately). It’s fascinating, sensual and cold.
However, the drydown is far more easily comprehensible as it develops warmer and sweet amberwoody nuances around the whole orris theme become more prominent. Aka, it goes closer to DHI's realm (or, as others have noted, maybe it's closer to Belle Âme, but without the ginger soap overload), while still doing it's own thing on the side.

Overall, I think it's thought-provoking, unique yet manages to be wearable (tho not sure how much I'ld wear this myself?). A great piece of perfumery right there. And, in today's world where perfume price tags seem to mean nothing, it's "logically rated" at 150€ for a 50ml.

10/04/2025

SandraParis
22 Reviews

SandraParis

1

An alt version of DHI 2011

I really appreciate Antoine Lie's work. I tried to sample this beauty when it was released but as it was only available at the Merci shop in Paris for a couple of weeks but by the time I managed to go to the shop, they no longer had it in stock.

So I blind bought a bottle. One of my best blind buys tbh. The resemblance with DHI 2011 is obvious with that dark and ambery iris DNA. However Rendez-vous ! is more unusual. You have that weird gunpowder accord in the opening that smells metallic to my nose. This note doesn't last long. Then the fragrance transitions quickly to that DHI 2011 DNA but with a fruity aspect brought by the rhubarb note.

Obviously this is a fragrance more suited for fall/winter. This is a completely unisex scent

For me it is definitely one of the best release of 2024.

06/19/2024

9Scent 9Longevity 8Sillage

Marieposa
90 Reviews

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Marieposa

Top Review 47

Bang bang, my baby shot me down

There are gunpowder traces on my hand as I trace my lips with trembling fingers. Blood red.
Maybe I shot into the air.
The flickering of the neon light makes the veins on the inside of my arm glow bluish like the crumpled banknotes on the sticky tiled floor. Somewhere up there, there must still be a glass. A glass of rosé sparkling wine … and blood-red lipstick stains … and gunpowder traces? Maybe …
I’m not sure, but I see the transparent vase in front of me, in which the translucent delicate flowers of the lush iris trembled slightly. Behind it, your face, barely distorted, as music drifted into my ear from afar.
… With the background fading, out of focus …
That’s not how we agreed! Even though I couldn’t remember the plan at that moment, every thought was purposefully slipping out of my focus …
… I was five, and he was six …
Shouldn’t you have stayed by my side? Or I by yours? I don’t remember anymore, because all I felt was the weight in my bag, which grew heavier and heavier.
… Yes the picture's changing, every moment …
Pear-shaped beads of condensation formed on the glass in my hand, which suddenly seemed to me the most important thing in the world as everything around me receded meters away. Even your blue eyes.
… We rode on horses made of sticks …
What was I supposed to do? And why did you look at me like a stranger, did nothing and said nothing?
… And your destination, you don't know it …
What else do I have left now but to gather the bills and desperately try not to think of shards with lipstick smears in champagne puddles?
Another touch of powder on my heated cheeks.
White noise when the heart beats.
… Bang bang …
… Avalon …
… That awful sound …
… Avalon …
… My baby shot me down …
Maybe I shot into the air.
Maybe not …

**

Sonia Sieff is a screenwriter, filmmaker, and photographer, and she dedicated her photo book "Rendez-vous !" to the male nude, which - if anyone knows better, feel free to correct me - has somewhat shifted to the periphery of artistic focus since its heyday in ancient Greece. I also strongly suspect that there are very few examples where male nude representations are staged from a female perspective. A highly interesting art project that plays with established gender roles and examines masculinity from a somewhat different viewpoint. The images that I could quickly research are honest and balanced in a fine equilibrium of strength and fragility, yet surprisingly non-voyeuristic.
This aspect is particularly intriguing to me because Antoine Lie, who created the fragrance of the same name in collaboration with Sonia Sieff, seems not to have found a keyhole through which he would not willingly have looked in his work as a perfumer.
“C’est ce jeu amoureux, la verticalité des rapports qui se renverse, l’homme dans sa sensibilité et la femme dans sa puissance,” says the promotional text on Sonia Sieff's website, also highlighting the play with assigned gender roles and their reversal. Elsewhere, I read that it is supposed to be a feminine fragrance that men would also like to wear.
So far, so good, but how does it smell now?
Rendez-vous ! greets me with a rather challenging top note of rose, pear (green and crisp), and gunpowder. For a second, I feel reminded of "Yes, Please | Pekji," but then the bitter-smoky, metallic, and slightly sulfurous gunpowder accord leads my thoughts down a different path. After a few minutes, the fruity-fresh rose retreats in favor of a powdery lipstick accord with iris and violet notes, which is still surrounded by slightly metallic accents that smell to me like the aftertaste of a sip of rosé champagne, grounded by dry woody notes. This unexpected contrast should actually be off-putting to me. Metallic notes are a horror for me, not to mention fruity rose, and I also approach powdery scents with steadily growing skepticism, but in this case, it is probably exactly this unexpected disruptive factor that strikes a small hook in my soul and doesn’t want to let go.
On the way to the drydown, the fragrance warms up, begins to breathe, and reveals an increasingly prominent benzoin heartbeat. A resin that can smell quite nasty like pudding on me. However, here it is staged so delicately along with the iris that it conveys a feeling of warm skin, perfectly complementing the cosmetic powder and lipstick notes from the heart. In the base, the fragrance reminds me a bit of "Dust | Perfumer H," but it is less sweet and appeals to me even more.
A wonderful tension arc of unexpected contrasts, executed absolutely wearable with a very elegant quality, culminating in a soothing skin scent with pleasant sweetness. What more could one want?

01/12/2025

9Scent 8Longevity 7Sillage

ElAttarine
86 Reviews

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ElAttarine

Top Review 34

Love Games, Travel, and Foreign Skin

Crackle! There is so much tension here that it feels electrically charged. My skin vibrates, all the tiny hairs are standing on end. I have wished for this for so long and imagined it in fantasies. For the first time, your closeness. Skin that is still foreign to me. So close that I can feel its radiance. The tension crackles between skin and skin. The air between us vibrates. At some point, my thoughts tremble, as far as I can still grasp any, the tension will discharge in a sweet cinnamon gunpowder explosion. My feelings are a trembling of petals, very thin and delicate and fragile, and at the same time, they have completely taken possession of me. This moment - composed of desire, tension, uncertainty, willingness to take risks, danger, surrender, shyness, hope… Do you dare to make the first touch? Or I…? Let’s get physical…
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It is precisely this moment, in which physical attraction becomes palpable, that has been captured here in the fragrance. The combination of gunpowder and powdery iris, lightly sweetened by benzoin, creates for me right from the start the impression of a cinnamon match being cracklingly lit. A hint of tart rhubarb helps to ensure that in all the powder and crackling, the physical grounding is not lost. Then peony joins in, tremblingly delicate like crumpled petals and full of charged tension. Powdery-floral-spicy of the finest kind, very subtly sweet. A very fine benzoin-vanilla-woody base. Everything remains consistently fine and full of tension. The theme is wonderfully executed. This highly erotic crackling, which can also be disturbing and dangerous, is all subtly floating-powdery yet so unmistakably, present, and captivating.
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The photographer, filmmaker, and author Sonja Sieff has published a photo book in 2024 under the same title "Rendez-vous!" along with the fragrance. Both can be seen as a cohesive art project. The photo book, which I have also ordered, contains a large number of male nudes photographed in very different locations (Paris, Biarritz, Barcelona, Ibiza, Copenhagen, Belgrade, Kyiv, Marseille, Lisbon, Berlin, Ethiopia) and with very different men. A photo book with nude photography always plays with the theme of voyeurism, classically with a male gaze on female bodies. Here, not only is this classic game reversed, but the models visibly retain their sovereignty and present themselves in fragility, uncertainty, shyness, or self-forgetfulness - or very confidently like the black model on the cover, whose confidently extended tongue and genitals are illuminated by spotlights. Other images show pensive poses or erotic skin details with or without hair or tattoos. From the 50 models, we read the first names in the appendix. A foreword by Mathieu Palain deals with how toxic masculinity can be overcome, "the straitjacket we force little boys into, which produces emotionally suffocated men" (7).
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According to Sonja Sieff's homepage, the book and the fragrance are about the same thing: the ever-new love game, the verticality of relationships, which can always be reversed regarding the poles of sensitivity and power and potency. In this respect, fortunately, not only are classic poles simply turned upside down, but something new beyond old gender assignments is being designed. In her work, Sonja Sieff is primarily concerned with "travelling and skins," as noted at the end of the photo book, - and here in the fragrance "Rendez-vous!" about the crackling attraction of foreign skin.

07/07/2024

6Scent 6Longevity 5Sillage

HexeLakritz
3 Reviews

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HexeLakritz

2

A Sharp Herbal Note, Diminishing into Sweetness

The association with mosquito spray in the first seconds is quite accurate.
The perfume initially has a herbal-pungent quality, almost unpleasant, then slowly the fruity-sweet note unfolds.
The scent itself is not too overpowering. It has a herbal quality reminiscent of "witch's ointment," although it has a creamier undertone in comparison.

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