Ajmal Viola

Mostly creamy heady flowers like jasmine and gardenia, rich and full. Underneath that, dry and warm, like cedar shavings or the inside of a wooden drawer.

It opens on black currant, bergamot and spicy notes, moves through jasmine, lily-of-the-valley and rose, and settles on vanilla, patchouli and cedar.

• black currant: tart purple fruit with a green, faintly sulphurous edge. Often labelled cassis
• bergamot: bright citrus peel, sharper and greener than orange. The note that makes Earl Grey tea smell the way it does

It lasts well and carries into a room.

Built from the note listing and the measured performance figures. We have not smelled this one.