Tom Ford Noir Anthracite

Mostly dry and warm, like cedar shavings or the inside of a wooden drawer. Underneath that, sharp and peppery, more like cracked pepper than baking spice.

It opens on sichuan pepper, ginger and bergamot, moves through spices, galbanum and jasmine, and settles on ebony, cedar and birch.

• ginger: sharp and fresh with a peppery bite, closer to the raw root than to gingerbread
• bergamot: bright citrus peel, sharper and greener than orange. The note that makes Earl Grey tea smell the way it does

It lasts well and carries into a room.

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