Maison Alhambra Eternal Touch

Mostly warm baking spice, in the cinnamon and clove family. Underneath that, dried leaves, sweet and warm rather than like a lit cigarette.

It opens on tobacco leaf and spicy notes, moves through cocoa, tonka bean and tobacco blossom, and settles on woody notes and dried fruits.

• spicy notes: a general spiciness rather than any one spice
• tonka bean: warm almond-and-vanilla sweetness with a dry hay-like edge

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.