Quatre En Rouge Boucheron for women

This starts off really nice. Before looking at the notes I thought I was smelling a salad of watermelon and melon. But no, that’s a red apple - or who knows, they say Fragrantica has messed up the note list again. A little later, the fruitiness becomes a fresh raspberry note, and indeed patchouli starts peeking through - quite early. This is where patchouli haters bolt for the hills, but I’m a patchouliphile (by the way, this is far from a patch bomb). At this point, it smells a bit like lipstick to me. I can distinctly smell the raspberry in the residue on my top the next day - all day and the day after! This is the first time (I haven’t worn my Byblos yet) I come across a raspberry dry-down and loving it. I don’t think I pick the marshmallow. This flanker is delightful all the way through. Too bad small bottles are not to be had. I’d love a 10-30ml spray but can’t buy any more of 100ml buckets, in which form this is still available. However, according to the esteemed knowledgeable reviewer far down below (not naming names), it was only a very limited edition. Oh well. 😔

Disclaimer: I don’t recommend anything to anyone. I don’t know you; you don’t know me. I just record my experiences, and I’ve done my best to profile my personal preferences to help others decide if my experience is relevant.

Mmmmmm! Quatre en Rouge smells really good! It's definitely a fruity, raspberry-apple, jammy rose with some fluffy marshmallow; because of the raspberry + marshmallow combo, it has a tinge of Dolce & Gabbana Pour Femme (though without the orange blossom, of course). It doesn't seem like it lasts too long, though, and I haven't been able to locate a bottle anywhere, so perhaps it's been discontinued. But it's a really pretty one and I'd probably get a full bottle if I could!

This was an impulse buy on a sale. It’s like a lover that turns out (s)he is nothing like you originally thought.

I thought it was a perfect summer scent for the girlies who don’t gravitate towards superduper feminine smells but gradually I felt like a senior citizen wearing it.

Can’t believe I actually found someone to sell it to but one person’s trash is another person’s treasure I guess.

Do NOT blind buy this.

Patchouli so much patchouli!

I was very underwhelmed by this. It's a pleasant musk with a hint of raspberry, and a heavy dose of powder in the opening. There just isn't much to like here since the fragrance is so weak and short-lived.

Smells almost exactly like the B&BW Winter Candy Apple lotion. The patchouli is very, very faint to me.

on a cloudy day in my tropical country with humid weather this scent comes off more of a heady Patchouli than fruity on my skin. and I only have a small 2ml vial ! Two hours into the day after spraying this in the morning and going off to work, the Patchouli has enveloped me face mask and all ! there are times I could smell the black currant and a hint of orange scent but sparingly..Reminds me of Decadence all right but this lacks the creaminess of Decadence. a 3.6 out of a 5.

Lovely perfume, very well blended. Somehow it makes me feel confident & cosy at the same time. I guess it works good on my skin - I didn't notice any harsh patchouli, or fruity, 'in your face', bubble bath kind of 'cheap' smell. Quite the oposite - this is a very versatile scent and I get a lots of compliments while wearing it.

After experiencing the utterly soft, sweet, rich, deep and powdery beauty of Boucheron's Iris de Syracuse, I decided to try other fragrances from this house. I'm quite familiar with the brand as they've been around since my childhood (many moons ago.) I can remember being dazzled at the vivid, jewel-tone caps that graced the bottles lining my god-mother's dresser. She favored Boucheron and YSL's Rive Gauche products. But, by the time I was old enough to wear perfume, these fragrances were too mature for me. Here we are, eons later and Boucheron still beckons my now matured senses to its timelessness.

So, I thought I'd try Quatre En Rouge out after reading the notes and being delighted to see favorites like Raspberry, Pear, Apple Tangerine and Rose. I normally steer clear of Patchouli as a rule, but threw caution to the wind as I know it can be tamed and muted, in the right hands. Yeah. Not so much in this juice.

Quatre En Rouge roars upon skin contact with a burst of all the above mentioned fruits, all at once, it seems. Whew! Before you can catch your breath, Patchouli screeches in and kicks you in the face...repeatedly. Once your head is pounding, it calms down to a fruity, sweet, gasoline tinged, nausea inducing cloud, that then dogs your Olympics-worthy sprint for the nearest water source!

I've experienced the gasoline-effect with other fragrances (Erba Pura and Kirke) but I never knew the cause. Now, thanks to Quatre En Rouge, I now know that Patchouli is the culprit and if I don't fu...er…mess with it, then it can't mess with me. Ymmv 🥴

I keep reading all these bad reviews and I feel sad that it seems like I'm the only one who likes this? It reminds me a lot of Gucci Flora Glamorous Magnolia. I've only had it for a short while, so I'm still testing to see if this one's full-bottle worthy.

Oh man. It's amazing how you can look at the notes and think you're going to love it, but then in real life it just doesn't work. This one was a cloying patchouli bomb on me from the very first spray. My initial reaction after I sprayed it was "Oh God no" so that pretty much says it all. At some point I did smell fruitiness but when buried underneath the patchouli mess it was just even more sickening. I will probably never touch this one again. Unless it was just one of those things where it just reacted badly with my hormonal profile on a given day...sometimes that happens.

I'm a fan of the Boucheron line of perfumes, but this one is a tough one for me to like. I adore raspberry in perfumes, marshmallow too, but in the end this entire fragrance translates to a screechy mess on my skin. It's quite harsh, strong and brash. In my case, headache inducing too. I feel bad saying this about a Boucheron scent! Trouble is my signature, and it's been discontinued long ago. I wish they'd do something fantastic like it is and not come out with so many that are just mediocre.

First of all, I love the smell of berries! Blackberry, black currant, raspberry... I love them all. And those last 2 notes are the MAIN reason this guy wanted Quatre En Rouge because, as you know, berry notes are hard-to-find in men's fragrances. But I can see why, although Quatre En Rouge was launched in 2019, it has already been discontinued. TO ME, it seems linear, which, as I've said before, isn't a bad thing, but is usually a PLUS in my book. HOWEVER... ALL I SMELL is a pungent odor that I can only describe as "skanky". It reminds me of Burberry Brit RED minus that gingerbread smell, if you know what I mean. VERY MUSKY! OVERALL, it's rose-scented musk, and nothing more. So if you're attracted to red bottles as I am, don't be fooled - there's nothing red about this one. I can't even smell any raspberry. :-(

A couple days after ordering this frag, I realized that I already own Jimmy Choo Exotic which has nearly the same notes.
I was relieved when this came because they smell like two different fragrances.
Jimmy Choo Exotic is way more heavier and syrupy in its nature despite being an EDT, and Rouge is lighter, less sweet, and more well-blended. For some reason, the patchouli in Rouge reminds me of the patchouli that is used in Chanel fragrances.
They are both good fragrances, but Rouge takes those same notes and leads them to a, slightly, more sophisticated route.

Quatre Pour Femme perfume was launched in 2015, closely followed by the men's version. The inspiration was the line of rings of the same name, which has a wide range of options and has, as a principle, to combine four bands of textures with different types of gold and precious stones, forming a single piece. Hence the reason for the name.

Quatre En Rouge was released in 2019, being the fourth flanker of Quatre Pour Femme’s line, following Intense (2016), Absolu de Nuit (2017), and En Rose (2018) versions. This new version brought the red band in the center of the jewel, located between diamonds and rose gold.

Its fragrance was created by Milene Alran (Robertet) and Michel Almairac. It has essences of bergamot and mandarin, as well as freesia and pear in the beginning. The fruity explosion goes towards the body of the fragrance, which brings black currant, apple, rose absolute, and iris butter. In the base, raspberry, marshmallow's accord, musk, and essence of patchouli.

On the skin, Quatre En Rouge reaches the nostrils with a strong smell of crispy pears, which gains even more accentuated nuances thanks to mandarin orange. This phase is remarkable and, although there is a floral link of the notes of rose and freesia, they lose space to the strong content of the black currant - full of sour facets - and introduces a sweet apple, slightly caramelized, like those of childhood that were well made, without too much sugar.

The evolution is subtle, time-consuming and Quatre En Rouge has excellent projection capacity. It takes a long time for the base to show its presence when the fruity side no longer dominates and a creamy sweetness is printed on the skin. The marshmallow note is not a cause for concern, but the patchouli could have been replaced by some wood, such as sandalwood, for example. In the way that this ingredient was explored, the result ends up being repetitive and this can be a negative point for sales.

Regarding the bottle, the ruby color stands out in contrast to the golden finishings, reinforcing the jewelry techniques used by the brand: Double Godrons, Clous de Paris, Paved Diamonds, and Gros Grain. A luxury!

Before finishing, I would like to leave an important piece of information that was passed on to me by the brand's importer in Brazil: Quatre En Rouge was barely launched and has already been discontinued. That is, it is a kind of limited edition release.

Oh man. If you want to smell like you bathed in a tub full of red wine, this will do the trick. Very intensive currants, red fruits and alcohol in the beginning. It does dry down to something more earthy when the patchouli comes through in a big way; in fact it becomes almost all patchouli similar to Angel but without the chocolate. If Angel and the original Jimmy Choo had a baby, voila. Like those fragrances, I just can’t get fully on board with this one. Planets away from Quatre Absolu de Nuit, which I love.

Raspberry and patchouli are some of my all-time favourite notes, however here I smell something slightly different. It was a love at first sniff, but beware: it’s a sweet bomb. In the first moments after spraying I smelled a lot of sugary (marshmallow, I reckon) fruity notes. In the drydown pear comes to the forefront, and although it’s not my preferred ingredient, here it works somehow, I guess it’s all that patchouli that is able to tame the fruity notes and turn this fragrance into a grown-up scent instead of some “easy breezy popstar edt”.

This is a complete patchouli bomb on me. I'm going to have to layer it with something else. I do not smell any of those other notes but patchouli. Fortunately, I just have a sample.

EDIT: I don't understand how anyone can like this. It reeks. It's a headache inducer. All it smells of is patchouli and lasts forever.

Great sillage, great longevity

A gorgeous fruity chypre! I thought I fell in love with Quatre en rose, but this is way better and original. En Rose is like a more rosey version of Si, while this is...well, this is a brand new scent for me. En Rouge opens really sweet, with marshamallow and fruity notes, maybe it reminds me slightly of Dolce pour femme, that's why I like it so much. Then comes the patchouli, yet not a dirty one. Somehow I can smell the rose in the drydown. Nice silage, longevity is about 7-8 hours. The best flanker so far. I don't find it similar to LVEB at all, it's ten times more subtle and not in your face. I don't get much similarities with La petite robe noir, I am sorry. LPRN has a strong berries scent on me and it's very powdery, however here there's only a hint of powderness.