Amouage Journey

Mostly sharp and peppery, more like cracked pepper than baking spice. Underneath that, cool and green, like herbs crushed between your fingers.

It opens on sichuan pepper, cardamom and bergamot, moves through tobacco leaf, incense and juniper berries, and settles on leather, cypriol oil or nagarmotha and tonka bean.

• cardamom: cool green spice with an aromatic, almost soapy lift
• 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.