Byredo Sellier

Mostly like a new leather jacket, smoky with a bitter edge. Underneath that, dry and warm, like cedar shavings or the inside of a wooden drawer.

It opens on cashmeran and black tea, moves through leather and tobacco leaf, and settles on birch and oakmoss.

• cashmeran: a warm musky wood with a powdery edge, used to make a base feel soft and enveloping
• leather: like a new leather jacket: dry, smoky, faintly bitter

It lasts well and carries into a room.

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