Guerlain L'Homme Ideal L'Intense

Mostly warm baking spice, in the cinnamon and clove family. Underneath that, smells like food: caramel, chocolate, vanilla, bakery.

It opens on almond, chili pepper and cardamom, moves through leather, bulgarian rose and labdanum, and settles on smoke, tonka bean and vanilla.

• almond: sweet marzipan, sometimes with a cherry-like edge
• cardamom: cool green spice with an aromatic, almost soapy lift

It lasts well 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.