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01French AvenueFrancique 107.9

Francique 107.9

by French Avenue

● Top pickHigh match

~$20–35

Rouge Smoking is BDK Parfums' playful cherry-vanilla gourmand: a candied, almost cherry-cola opening lifted by pink pepper and bergamot, melting into a powdery heart of black vanilla, heliotrope and orange blossom over a soft tonka, cashmeran, labdanum and white-musk base. It is a divisive, marmite scent — fans love the sweet, powdery red-fruit haze while detractors find it synthetic and ambroxan-heavy — and nearly everyone agrees its biggest flaw is modest longevity. Clone consensus is thin and leans on dupe-house catalogs and retailer reviews rather than deep Reddit threads, but one alternative is named far more consistently than any other: French Avenue / Fragrance World's Francique 107.9, repeatedly and specifically marketed and reviewed as the Rouge Smoking inspired-by, with buyers calling it 'incredibly similar' and a near-1:1 of the cherry-to-vanilla-musk arc (it even shares the original's weak-ish longevity, so it is not a performance upgrade). Other names that circulate — Perfume Parlour's Scarlet Elegance, Parfums d'Elmar's Rouge Mystique, and various note-list suggestions like Delina or Chloé EDP — rest on a single dupe-ranking aggregator, score poorly, or are speculative, so they are excluded here pending independent corroboration. Treat this as moderate-confidence: Francique 107.9 is the well-supported pick, the rest of the field is unsettled.