Kilian Dark Lord

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 pepper, sichuan pepper and bergamot, moves through jasmine sambac, rum and davana, and settles on leather, vetiver and cypriol oil or nagarmotha.

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

It lasts well and carries into a room.

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