Eros Flame
Versace (2018)

The only thing juvenile about this fragrance are the reviews I’m reading. This is for the person who likes tasteful food with chili peppers. This is not for the people who are afraid of anything spicier than vanilla. Eros Flame is much better than Eros. It’s romantic and fun with the right amount of projection and strength. I think if you’re afraid of spice and tonka bean then you should leave this one alone and let the people who enjoy it have their fun. All I read on this website seems to stem from a pathetic sense of elitism. I’ve seldom found a review that actually told me what the fragrance smells like. Someone said it smells like Q-tips? You mean it smells like cotton? If you think this smells like cotton then you need to oust yourself from the frag community because you just alluded to the fact that you nose-blind. Eros Flame is as the name implies; hot and spicy. Not for weak wannabes or people with q-tips in both nostrils.

Edit 6/30/22:

This is my new summer banger baby! Signature summer scent with panache. I’m doubling down on the Allure Homme Sport with ZEST call below.

Missoni Wave is getting a lot of (warranted) play lately in the “bang for the buck” community for the AHS comparison (+ Versace Pour a Homme). I like Wave, and Eros Flame has everything good about Wave only better, with higher citrus highs, some green energy and that pepper that says “hey, b*tch, I’m different!”.
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This is quite good. The negative reviews here seem misplaced, if not a little unfair, but whatever.

Eros Flame is unexpected. It’s not warm or particularity spicy. It’s not “by the fireside fun”, or a dialed up romantic evening. It’s not a club banger. It’s really more of a spring and summer zinger. A bright ray of sun on a blue Italian bay.

Eros Flame is similar to Eros but with the citrus amped up, the mint dialed down and the vanilla smoothed out. There’s spice, but it’s pepper, not cinnamon. It makes Eros Flame more piquant, less playful, less cloying and more versatile than the original. But the Eros DNA is there and it’s nice.

The pepper, along with the rosemary, gives Eros Flame a momentary mildly tangy green edge in the heart. If there’s rose it’s a green rose. There heart is bit herbal, with some sweet tonka, before everything settles to a nicely blended, creamy dry down.

There’s sweetness here, but it’s the creamy sweetness of Allure Homme Sport, not Eros. You can sample on paper, but your nose may deceive. On paper it’s much closer to Eros I think. needs to be sprayed on skin to make a decision.

I loved this in the store, felt I’d made a mistake after purchase, and now feel I have a nice, sweet zingy daytime crowd pleaser with some depth. Also fine for warm, congenial evenings, but original Eros would be a perfect carry over heading into more sultry, hedonistic evening festivities

The only real sin here is that it was probably misnamed.

Thumbs up, baby.

Eros Flame is like Tony Stark. No not when he's in the Iron Man suit, though the bottle does kinda look like it and they definitely have similar kinds of appeal to the masses.

It's not when Tony is being a manic genius working late into the night to develop some preposterous technology all by himself, either. And it's certainly not Tony Stark at his lowest, as an anxiety-ridden daddy's boy who hides his childhood pain behind a veneer of sarcasm.

Eros Flame smells, instead, like Tony Stark when he's trying to woo Pepper Potts into bed, just before the aliens come out of the sky or some villain emerges from the internet. Whatever the bad guy is, he's here, so we have to cut this scene short. It doesn't smell like sex, because Disney would never allow that on screen, but it smells like almost-sex. The possibility of sex while there's danger out there. Only Robert Downey Jr can stop it for some reason.

So I really wanted to try this after sampling in a department store, but needed to wait until it got cheap enough at one of the discounters. Found it today and did a full day's wear--two shots to the wrist. Verdict: not my thing, so gave it to a friend.

Very powdery and the rose note was prominent, drying down to pachouli. You would think that "flame" would call for cinnamon, or something spicy. But no, just smelled like a Q-Tip. A really loud Q-Tip. Still detectable before bed, as a skin scent, at least. Stronger than most cheapy Tommy Bahamas that I usually get. Very little projection (but I prefer that). Slightly irritating to my eye--perhaps I am allergic to one of the ingredients, but nowhere near as bad as TB St. Bart's.

Reminded me of Burberry Brit because of the rose/powder combo; also Bill Blass Mr. Blass (though that can be used to hunt game at 100 yards). Someone who likes the combination of notes might enjoy this...but it's not me.

A lot of hate, but it's really good. It takes all the bad with Eros and diminishes it, it gets rid of the cloying, thick, syrupy, sweetness that borders on juvenile, and replaces it with a great spicy note with smells like pink pepper to me. The spice isn't just gone and past, it sticks around through most of the life of the scent. The dry down is about the same as Eros, which is awesome, cause it's mass appealing.

Smells cheap to me like it could be Axe or something like that. Boyfriend and I both did not like it. Smells like too much of everything and kind of a mish mash that comes off as very generic. Musky, heavy, and overtly masculine in a cheap, aggressive sort of way.