Warm Spicy

What it is

Cinnamon, clove, nutmeg, cardamom and allspice: the spices you would put in food rather than on it. Often paired with amber or vanilla, which is what makes it read as warmth rather than heat.

What it smells like

Baking spice, sweet and dry at once, the smell of mulled wine more than of a curry. It raises the perceived temperature of everything around it, so the same fragrance feels heavier in July than the notes alone would suggest.

How strongly it is worn

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

71 / 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.

Tom Ford (33), Rasasi (32), Amouage (27), Montale (27), Mancera (26), Xerjoff (26).