Audition

Audition by Phronema Perfumes is a fragrance for women and men. This is a new fragrance. Audition was launched in 2024. The nose behind this fragrance is Weston Adam. The fragrance features Vanilla, Tobacco, Honey, Raspberry, Cedarwood, Tonka, Clove, Heliotrope, Cinnamon, Ambergris, Benzoin and Orris. Audition is a fragrance that captures the unsettling allure of Ryu Murakami’s world—a beguiling blend of sweetness and danger, where nothing is as it seems. The opening is deceptively inviting. Raspberry and honey greet the senses with an intensely classical sweetness, their charm as irresistible as it is disarming. Beneath this sweetness, however, lies a darker undercurrent. The richness of tobacco absolute mingles with the smoky warmth of clove and cinnamon, a slow-burning tension that simmers just beneath the surface. As the fragrance unfolds, the seductive complexity deepens. Vanilla absolute and tonka bean absolute lend a creamy softness which is more complex than a traditional vanillin or coumarin addition, while cacao adds a bitter, gourmand edge that hints at something darker lurking beneath the surface. Orris butter, with its powdery elegance, creates a veil of mystery, evoking the sense of something hidden, waiting to reveal itself. Dried fruit and heliotrope propel the sweetness to oversaturate the surface,while the glistening quality of silver ambergris brings the mind sharply to bear upon its piercing movements. Cedarwood brings a dry, woody backbone that anchors the composition, while benzoin resinoid and its resinous warmth provide an almost tactile sense of tension—like the tightening grip of a hand you hadn’t noticed. The drydown is both comforting and unnerving, with the lingering scent of tobacco and vanilla twined around the faint whisper of ambergris, reminding you that beauty can be dangerous. Audition embodies the duality of innocence and menace, where the familiar turns strange, and desire leads down a path you never expected to follow.