Labdanum 18 Perfume Oil unisex

Mostly sweet resinous warmth, soft and slightly powdery. Underneath that, dry and warm, like cedar shavings or the inside of a wooden drawer.

It opens on clove, cumin and patchouli, moves through amber, incense and labdanum, and settles on amber, ambroxan and guaiac wood.

• clove: hot, numbing spice with a medicinal edge, like a dentist's surgery in the best case
• cumin: warm, dusty, unmistakably sweaty at any real dose. The note people either forgive or refuse

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.