Al Haramain Musk Poudree

Mostly creamy heady flowers like jasmine and gardenia, rich and full. Underneath that, soft and dusty, somewhere between face powder and clean laundry.

It opens on lily-of-the-valley, orris root and benzoin, moves through musk, ylang-ylang and beeswax, and settles on patchouli, coumarin and vetiver.

• lily-of-the-valley: small white flower, fresh and dewy green. The real flower yields no oil, so this is always recreated
• orris: iris root rather than the flower: cool, powdery and faintly earthy. One of the most expensive materials in perfumery

It lasts well and carries into a room.

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