Xerjoff Hayat

Mostly dry and warm, like cedar shavings or the inside of a wooden drawer. Underneath that, soil and roots, like a forest floor after rain.

It opens on lavender, bitter orange and saffron, moves through amber, cardamom and ceylon cinnamon, and settles on agarwood (oud), cypriol oil or nagarmotha and atlas cedar.

• lavender: clean herbal flower, cooling and slightly soapy
• bitter orange: sour marmalade citrus, closer to peel than to juice

It lasts well and carries into a room.

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