Prada Purple Rain

Mostly soft and dusty, somewhere between face powder and clean laundry. Underneath that, dry and warm, like cedar shavings or the inside of a wooden drawer.

It opens on galbanum and bergamot, moves through iris, neroli and hedione, and settles on vetiver, violet and white musk.

• galbanum: intensely green resin, bitter and sappy, like a snapped plant stem
• bergamot: bright citrus peel, sharper and greener than orange. The note that makes Earl Grey tea smell the way it does

It lasts an average amount of time 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.