Date Night

Sandalwood with a capital S - cocoa, rose and cream.Santal Majuscule is Serge Lutens' rich sandalwood, composed by Christopher Sheldrake. Cacao and Damask rose melt into creamy sandalwood in one of the house's most soft-focused, romantic compositions.Plush, cocoa-dusted and warm, it is an evening...

A night in Doha - maple-sweet tobacco and warm vanilla.Une Nuit a Doha is Stephane Humbert Lucas 777's cosy tobacco gourmand. Ginger, fennel and mandarin open onto tobacco and immortelle, over vanilla and vetiver.Sweet, maple-like and warm, it wears day to evening across autumn...

B683 turned up - saffron, oud and deeper skin.B683 Extrait is Quentin Bisch's richer reworking of the Marc-Antoine Barrois debut. Pink pepper, cumin and green apple open onto safraleine and violet leaf, over agarwood, Indonesian patchouli and Australian sandalwood.Deeper and more resinous than the...

The scent of a perfectly cut coat - saffron, pepper and warm skin.B683 is the fragrance that launched couturier Marc-Antoine Barrois, composed by Quentin Bisch. Saffron, black pepper, nutmeg and red chilli open onto violet leaf, musk, labdanum and amber, over ambroxan, patchouli, sandalwood...

A fine cigar, cardamom and oud smoke.T. Habanero is the spicy tobacco-oud of Paris house Rania J., by perfumer Rania Jouaneh. Cardamom, black and pink pepper open over rich tobacco, settling into agarwood, myrrh, leather, incense and sandalwood.Warm, peppery and smoky, it is an...

A sweet devil - rum, chocolate and stone fruit.Dulce Diablo is Narcotica's most popular release, composed by Claude Dir. Rum, chocolate, apricot and cognac open onto dried apricot, cacao extract, sugar cane, honey and davana, over Madagascar vanilla, tonka bean, sandalwood and patchouli.Decadent, boozy...

A dose of smoke, amber and blonde tobacco.Doza is the viral favourite from Narcotica, composed by Claude Dir. Black currant, Sichuan pepper and incense open onto blonde tobacco, sea moss, labdanum, amber and smoke, over vanilla bean, guaiac wood, Texas cedar and myrrh.Sweet, smoky...

A cup of spiced masala chai, turned into a fragrance.Chai is Spyros Drosopoulos' gourmand ode to spiced tea for the Amsterdam house Baruti. Cinnamon, cloves, ginger, cardamom and pepper steam over black tea, steamed milk, rose and cocoa, settling on vanilla, musk and leather.Warm,...

A gourmand for those who hate gourmands - rum, cocoa and smoke.Perverso is the smoky signature of Baruti, the Amsterdam house of Greek perfumer Spyros Drosopoulos. Rum and fig open onto roasted hazelnut, tobacco leaf, cocoa powder and caramel fudge, over a base of...

A shimmering haze of wild strawberry, tuberose and spun sugar.The newest signature from Zurich's Thomas De Monaco, composed by Karine Chevallier, Luisant Haze opens on sparkling wild strawberry, pink pepper and cardamom, blooms into a heart of tuberose, cotton candy and glowing safraleine, and...

Sweet up front, praline long after midnight - a trail that gets remembered.Launched in 2023 by 4711, Collection Absolue Smoky Tonka opens with Cognac and Bergamot, warms into a heart of Tonka Bean, Cinnamon and Oak, and settles on a base of Praline, Vanilla...

Lavender opens the story; benzoin refuses to end it.Launched in 2017 by Guerlain, Mon opens with Bergamot and Lavender, warms into a heart of Iris, Jasmine and Rose, and settles on a base of Benzoin, Coumarin and Licorice. Composed by Delphine Jelk and Thierry...