Valentino Uomo

Mostly dry and warm, like cedar shavings or the inside of a wooden drawer. Underneath that, smells like food: caramel, chocolate, vanilla, bakery.

It opens on bergamot and myrtle, moves through hazelnut, chocolate and roasted coffee beans, and settles on leather and cedar.

• bergamot: bright citrus peel, sharper and greener than orange. The note that makes Earl Grey tea smell the way it does
• leather: like a new leather jacket: dry, smoky, faintly bitter

It lasts well 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.