Tom Ford Electric Cherry

Mostly soft skin-like warmth, more the smell of clean skin than a scent of its own. Underneath that, sweet and syrupy, often with an almond bitterness underneath.

It opens on cherry and ginger, moves through jasmine sambac, and settles on pink pepper, ambrettolide and musk.

• ginger: sharp and fresh with a peppery bite, closer to the raw root than to gingerbread
• jasmine: a rich white flower, heady and full. Up close it turns slightly animal, which some people love and others find too much

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.