Creed Acqua Originale Cedre Blanc

Mostly cool and green, like herbs crushed between your fingers. Underneath that, dry and warm, like cedar shavings or the inside of a wooden drawer.

It opens on bergamot, bay leaf and galbanum, moves through geranium, lily and jasmine, and settles on cedar, vetiver and sandalwood.

• bergamot: bright citrus peel, sharper and greener than orange. The note that makes Earl Grey tea smell the way it does
• galbanum: intensely green resin, bitter and sappy, like a snapped plant stem

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.