Smoky

What it is

Birch tar, guaiac wood, cade and burnt woods. In small amounts it is a shadow behind other notes and at higher doses it becomes the subject.

What it smells like

Woodsmoke, a blown out match, the inside of a fireplace in summer. It is the accord most likely to be read as masculine regardless of what else is in the bottle, and it clings to fabric far longer than it stays on skin.

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.

Amouage (8), Byredo (8), Tom Ford (7), Nishane (6), Armaf (5), Hermes (5).