Black Opium Over Red

Mostly sweet and creamy, like vanilla pod or custard. Underneath that, sweet and syrupy, often with an almond bitterness underneath.

It opens on cherry and green mandarin, moves through jasmine, orange blossom and black tea, and settles on madagascar vanilla, coffee and indonesian patchouli leaf.

• green mandarin: mandarin picked unripe: sharper, greener, less sweet
• jasmine: a rich white flower, heady and full. Up close it turns slightly animal, which some people love and others find too much

It lasts an average amount of time 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.