Caraway

What it is

Seed, distilled. Related to cumin botanically but carrying none of its sweatiness.

What it smells like

Warm and seedy with a bread-like quality and an aniseed edge. It smells like rye bread to most people who recognise it, and it is rare enough that it usually reads as unfamiliar rather than as anything in particular.

Where it sits

Which layer of the pyramid it is listed in, across every fragrance here that carries it. A base note is one you smell for hours; a top note is usually gone within the first.

What it turns up with

How much more often than the catalogue average. 1.0x would be chance, so these are the things that genuinely travel with it rather than the things that are simply common.

When it is worn

Against the average fragrance here. The line marks that average, so a bar past it means this is worn in that season or setting more than most.

Houses that use it most

Counted across the fragrances here, which reflects what we cover as much as what a house makes.

Jean Paul Gaultier (6), Tom Ford (3), Azzaro (2), Creed (2), Amouage (1), Armaf (1).