Xerjoff Aqua Regia

Mostly dry and warm, like cedar shavings or the inside of a wooden drawer. Underneath that, soft and dusty, somewhere between face powder and clean laundry.

It opens on leather, black currant and calabrian bergamot, moves through violet, orris root and singapore patchouli, and settles on cedar, musk and madagascar vanilla.

• leather: like a new leather jacket: dry, smoky, faintly bitter
• black currant: tart purple fruit with a green, faintly sulphurous edge. Often labelled cassis

It lasts well and carries into a room.

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