Tobacco Mandarin Byredo

Mostly sharp and peppery, more like cracked pepper than baking spice. Underneath that, dried leaves, sweet and warm rather than like a lit cigarette.

It opens on cumin, mandarin orange and coriander, moves through tobacco, leather and labdanum, and settles on olibanum, agarwood (oud) and sandalwood.

• cumin: warm, dusty, unmistakably sweaty at any real dose. The note people either forgive or refuse
• mandarin orange: sweet, soft citrus. Gentler and less biting than lemon

It lasts well and carries into a room.

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