Amouage Library Opus Xiii Silver Oud

Mostly dry and warm, like cedar shavings or the inside of a wooden drawer. Underneath that, like a new leather jacket, smoky with a bitter edge.

It opens on cypriol oil or nagarmotha, patchouli and virginia cedar, moves through agarwood (oud) and madagascar vanilla, and settles on castoreum, birch and ambrarome.

• cypriol oil or nagarmotha: smoky, leathery root, dry and a little tarry. Often used where oud is implied but not used
• patchouli: dark and earthy with a sweet edge, somewhere between damp soil and a second-hand bookshop

It lasts well and carries into a room.

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