Mancera Roses & Chocolate

Mostly sweet milk chocolate, rounder and richer than cocoa. Underneath that, soft and dusty, somewhere between face powder and clean laundry.

It opens on peach, black currant and mandarin orange, moves through dark chocolate, rose and violet, and settles on vanilla, white musk and cedar.

• peach: soft and sweet with a fuzzy edge, more like the skin than the juice
• black currant: tart purple fruit with a green, faintly sulphurous edge. Often labelled cassis

It lasts well and carries into a room.

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