Amouage Library Opus Xiv Royal Tobacco

Mostly sweet resinous warmth, soft and slightly powdery. Underneath that, smells like food: caramel, chocolate, vanilla, bakery.

It opens on olibanum, anise and elemi resin, moves through tobacco, licorice and fenugreek, and settles on olibanum, bourbon vanilla and myrrh.

• olibanum: frankincense: dry resinous smoke with a citrus lift. Usually worth naming as frankincense instead
• cardamom: cool green spice with an aromatic, almost soapy lift

It lasts well and carries into a room.

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