Parfums De Marly Althair

Mostly sugary and rounded, closer to dessert than to fruit. Underneath that, warm baking spice, in the cinnamon and clove family.

It opens on cinnamon, cardamom and orange blossom, moves through bourbon vanilla and elemi, and settles on praline, musk and ambroxan.

• cinnamon: hot sweet baking spice
• cardamom: cool green spice with an aromatic, almost soapy lift

It lasts well and carries into a room.

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