Dior Sauvage

Mostly sharp and peppery, more like cracked pepper than baking spice. Underneath that, sweet resinous warmth, soft and slightly powdery.

It opens on calabrian bergamot and pepper, moves through sichuan pepper, lavender and pink pepper, and settles on ambroxan, cedar and labdanum.

• bergamot: bright citrus peel, sharper and greener than orange. The note that makes Earl Grey tea smell the way it does
• pepper: dry and warming, like freshly cracked black pepper

It lasts well and carries into a room.

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