Xerjoff Casamorati La Tosca

Mostly the smell of air just after a storm, sharp and faintly metallic. Underneath that, dry and warm, like cedar shavings or the inside of a wooden drawer.

It opens on green mandarin and italian lemon, moves through violet leaf, eucalyptus and bulgarian rose, and settles on musk, patchouli and madagascar vanilla.

• green mandarin: mandarin picked unripe: sharper, greener, less sweet
• violet leaf: green and dewy with a cucumber-like coolness. Nothing like the sweetness of violet flowers

It lasts well and carries into a room.

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