Paco Rabanne Olympea Onyx

Mostly sweet and creamy, like vanilla pod or custard. Underneath that, sweet resinous warmth, soft and slightly powdery.

It opens on water jasmine, ginger and green mandarin, moves through vanilla and salt, and settles on ambergris, cashmirwood and sandalwood.

• ginger: sharp and fresh with a peppery bite, closer to the raw root than to gingerbread
• green mandarin: mandarin picked unripe: sharper, greener, less sweet

It lasts well and carries into a room.

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