Mancera The Aoud

Mostly warm baking spice, in the cinnamon and clove family. Underneath that, dense smoky resinous wood, rich and medicinal. An acquired taste for many Western noses.

It opens on cloves, cinnamon and white pepper, moves through rose, saffron and geranium, and settles on agarwood (oud), leather and woody notes.

• clove: hot, numbing spice with a medicinal edge, like a dentist's surgery in the best case
• cinnamon: hot sweet baking spice

It lasts well and carries into a room.

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