Audace was released in January 2025, the year of Rochas’s centenary. Louise Turner, a Givaudan perfumer, signs a floral, ambery and gourmand fragrance: pink peppercorns, mandarin and raspberry in the top, rose, tuberose and orange blossom in the heart, musk, tonka bean and sandalwood in the base. The bottle, designed by Studio Ange, depicts a strapless gown whose golden bust forms the cap.
Elena Prokofeva finds Audace sweet, heavy-handed and artificial, far from the green chypre that bore the name in the 1970s, and judges its bottle odd, while conceding that it may appeal to others.
What critics say
Elena Prokofeva, Fragrantica (2025)
In a November 2025 column, the author compares Audace with the Audace pour femme of the 1970s, a bitter green chypre she owns and cherishes. The 2025 fragrance strikes her as sweet, sticky and loud, at once sensual and naive, and far too heavy-handed for her taste.
She smells a very sweet, almost candied raspberry and mandarin, before a syrup of white flowers covers them; tuberose and orange blossom remind her of confectionery more than flowers. The sandalwood and tonka bean base seems bland to her.
She compares the bottle to a headless dancer that catches the eye without convincing. She concludes that Audace seems cheap and too simple to her, while admitting that it may appeal to other people and that a fragrance she dislikes is not bad for all that.
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