Guerlain Bois Mysterieux

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

It opens on laurels and neroli, moves through atlas cedar, patchouli and jasmine, and settles on leather and myrhh.

• neroli: the bright, just-squeezed side of orange blossom: green, clean and faintly bitter
• patchouli: dark and earthy with a sweet edge, somewhere between damp soil and a second-hand bookshop

It lasts well and carries into a room.

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