Versace Pour Homme Oud Noir

Mostly dense smoky resinous wood, rich and medicinal. An acquired taste for many Western noses. Underneath that, warm baking spice, in the cinnamon and clove family.

It opens on black pepper, bitter orange and neroli, moves through saffron, cardamom and olibanum, and settles on agarwood (oud), patchouli and leatherwood.

• black pepper: dry and hot, like pepper cracked straight from the mill
• bitter orange: sour marmalade citrus, closer to peel than to juice

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.