Baccarat Rouge 540
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“The saffron-and-amber cloud that became the sound of “expensive” — and the single most-copied smell in perfumery.”
Baccarat Rouge 540 is the perfume you've smelled a hundred times without knowing its name — on a coworker, in a hotel lobby, drifting off a candle. That sweet, ambery saffron haze became shorthand for expensive, and a smell that universal was always going to get copied more than any other.
Dossier Ambery Saffron is the copy people quote most, and it gets remarkably close for a sliver of the price. The full field is on our Baccarat Rouge 540 dupes guide. See the full breakdown.












