Amouage Orris Wakan

Mostly soft and dusty, somewhere between face powder and clean laundry. Underneath that, cool, powdery and slightly rooty, closer to makeup than to a flower.

It opens on jasmine, orris and orris root, moves through labdanum, orris and paradisone, and settles on musk.

• jasmine: a rich white flower, heady and full. Up close it turns slightly animal, which some people love and others find too much
• orris: iris root rather than the flower: cool, powdery and faintly earthy. One of the most expensive materials in perfumery

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.