Xerjoff 1861 Naxos

Mostly sugary and rounded, closer to dessert than to fruit. Underneath that, dried leaves, sweet and warm rather than like a lit cigarette.

It opens on lavender, bergamot and lemon, moves through honey, cinnamon and cashmeran, and settles on tobacco leaf, vanilla and tonka bean.

• lavender: clean herbal flower, cooling and slightly soapy
• 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.