Lancome

Mostly smells like food: caramel, chocolate, vanilla, bakery. Underneath that, the flower itself, ranging from jammy to green depending on the blend.

It opens on grasse rose, moves through cedar, jasmine and mirabilis, and settles on birch, cedar and licorice.

• cedar: dry, clean wood, closest to freshly sharpened pencil shavings
• jasmine: a rich white flower, heady and full. Up close it turns slightly animal, which some people love and others find too much

It lasts an average amount of time 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.