Bvlgari Le Gemme Ambero

Mostly warm baking spice, in the cinnamon and clove family. Underneath that, sweet resinous warmth, soft and slightly powdery.

It opens on ginger, pink pepper and saffron, moves through ginger, labdanum and olibanum, and settles on ginger and olibanum.

• ginger: sharp and fresh with a peppery bite, closer to the raw root than to gingerbread
• pink pepper: light rosy pepper that sparkles rather than burns

It lasts well and carries into a room.

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