Room 1015 Poppy Riot Eau de Parfum

What it smells like

Poppy Riot is a sweet, smoky, slightly strange fragrance that spends its first stretch smelling like stewed fruit and its last like a tobacco pouch. The opening is dried plum, bitter orange and green mandarin — dark fruit rather than fresh, with the bitter orange keeping it from going jammy.

The heart is the interesting part: saffron, milk, poppy and davana together. The milk note is lactonic and slightly fatty, davana brings an almost boozy apricot quality, and saffron gives the whole middle a leathery, medicinal edge. It is a combination that should not work and mostly does.

The base is tonka bean, tobacco, woody notes and musk — warm, dry and sweet, where the fragrance finally settles. The community accord ranking runs sweet at the top, then warm spicy, tobacco, lactonic and fruity, with a distinct metallic facet further down that some wearers notice strongly and others never do.

Who made it

Composed by Jérôme di Marino, a French perfumer at Mane who trained through Givaudan and Takasago, the latter under Francis Kurkdjian, and who has since composed Kenzo World Power, Burberry Her Elixir de Parfum and Mr. Burberry Element. He is the nose behind most of the current Room 1015 line, and his particular skill is putting a difficult material at the centre of a composition and making it wearable rather than making it a joke.

You can see the other fragrances he composed for the house, and for others, on the Jérôme di Marino collection page.

Who it's for

For people who like gourmand-adjacent fragrances but want something with a shadow in it. The sweetness here is fruit and tonka rather than sugar, and the tobacco keeps pulling it back from dessert.

If you already wear saffron or davana scents this will be legible immediately. If you dislike lactonic milk notes, approach carefully — the milk is prominent in the first hour. Within the house it sits closest to Cherry Punk in weight, though it is sweeter and less leathery.

Unisex. Worth noting it is one of the two newest releases in the line, from 2026.

When to wear it

Cold weather. The tobacco and tonka want cool air, and in heat the lactonic notes turn heavy quite quickly. Autumn and winter are where it makes sense.

Evening rather than day, and sociable evenings in particular — dinner, a date, a long night out. It has real presence in the first couple of hours, so apply less than you think you need.

About the house

Room 1015 is a Parisian niche house founded in 2015 by Michael Partouche — Dr. Mike — a trained pharmacist who spent five years in London touring with his band before deciding that fragrance was the one discipline that could hold both halves of his life. The name is a hotel room number: 1015 of the Continental Hyatt House on Sunset Strip, the "Riot House", where touring bands took their after-parties in the 1970s.

The house calls what it does olfactory counterculture, and every fragrance starts from a specific cultural reference rather than from a material. The bottle is the same throughout — heavy coloured glass sized for the palm, under a faceted cap cut like a dark gem, black for the eaux de parfum and silver for the extraits. Poppy Riot is one of the house's 2026 releases. See the rest of the line in the Room 1015 collection at Redolia.