Nutty

What it is

Hazelnut, almond skin, pistachio and toasted grain notes, built from pyrazines, the same family of molecules that make roasted food smell roasted.

What it smells like

Toasted and dry rather than sweet, closer to the skin of a nut than to the kernel. It sits between the gourmand and the woody accords and is often what makes a sweet fragrance read as grown up.

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.

Guerlain (5), Carolina Herrera (4), Giorgio Armani (4), Givenchy (4), Tom Ford (4), Al Haramain (3).