Amouage Love Delight

Mostly sweet and creamy, like vanilla pod or custard. Underneath that, soft and dusty, somewhere between face powder and clean laundry.

It opens on ginger, mandarin orange and cinnamon, moves through heliotrope, jasmine and rose, and settles on vanilla, cacao and rum.

• ginger: sharp and fresh with a peppery bite, closer to the raw root than to gingerbread
• mandarin orange: sweet, soft citrus. Gentler and less biting than lemon

It lasts well and sits close to the skin after the first hour.

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