Colette 25 unisex

Mostly soft skin-like warmth, more the smell of clean skin than a scent of its own. Underneath that, soft and dusty, somewhere between face powder and clean laundry.

It opens on bergamot, bitter orange and clove, moves through amber, labdanum and olibanum, and settles on amber, ambrettolide and ambroxan.

• bergamot: bright citrus peel, sharper and greener than orange. The note that makes Earl Grey tea smell the way it does
• bitter orange: sour marmalade citrus, closer to peel than to juice

It lasts well and carries into a room.

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