Amouage Variety

Mostly dense smoky resinous wood, rich and medicinal. An acquired taste for many Western noses. Underneath that, like crushed leaves and cut grass, sharp with a bitter edge.

It opens on brandy, buchu or agathosma and orris root, moves through bran, celery seeds and fenugreek, and settles on earthy notes, georgywood and leatherwood.

• orris: iris root rather than the flower: cool, powdery and faintly earthy. One of the most expensive materials in perfumery
• sandalwood: creamy, almost milky wood. Softer and rounder than cedar

It lasts well and carries into a room.

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