Earthy

What it is

Vetiver root, patchouli, beetroot notes and geosmin, the molecule your nose reads as the smell of rain hitting dry ground. Humans detect it at extraordinarily low concentrations.

What it smells like

Soil and roots, like a forest floor after rain or a just lifted beetroot. It grounds a fragrance and stops sweetness floating, and taken too far it reads as damp or mushroomy, which people either love outright or refuse.

How strongly it is worn

The average strength this accord is listed at, where 100 means it dominates the fragrance.

58 / 100

What builds it

How much more often than the catalogue average. 1.0x would be chance, so these are the things that genuinely travel with it rather than the things that are simply common.

Accords it sits beside

Same measure, with its own family filtered out. Saying woody turns up with oud is a restatement, not a finding.

When it is worn

Against the average fragrance here. The line marks that average, so a bar past it means this is worn in that season or setting more than most.

Houses that use it most

Counted across the fragrances here, which reflects what we cover as much as what a house makes.

Prada (17), Hermes (15), Givenchy (14), Gucci (14), Nishane (14), Chanel (13).