The notes glossary

What do fragrance notes smell like?

Notes are the building blocks of every perfume — the raw materials a perfumer stacks into top, heart and base layers. Tap any note to learn what it actually smells like, its role in a composition, and the fragrances in our collection built around it.

Top notes

The first impression

Heart notes

The character

Base notes

The lasting trail

Vanilla

31 scents

Sweet, creamy and warm, with a soft balsamic, almost boozy depth — comfort in a bottle.

Amber

Patchouli

27 scents

Dark, earthy and damp — woody and a little sweet, with a chocolatey, head-shop richness when used heavily.

Woody

Amber

25 scents

Soft, golden warmth — sweet resin, powder and a honeyed glow that hugs the skin.

Amber

Cedar

22 scents

Dry, clean and pencil-shaving woody, with a faintly sharp, aromatic crispness.

Woody

Musk

20 scents

Soft, warm and skin-like — clean and powdery in white musks, sensual and animalic in deeper ones.

Sandalwood

20 scents

Creamy, smooth and milky-woody, soft and a little sweet — the most luxurious of the woods.

Woody

Tonka Bean

19 scents

Warm and sweet like vanilla crossed with almond, hay and a whisper of cinnamon and tobacco.

Amber

Vetiver

13 scents

Earthy, smoky and green-rooty — dry grass and damp soil with a cool, mineral edge.

Woody

Oakmoss

10 scents

Deep, damp forest-floor green — earthy, slightly inky and bittersweet, like a rain-soaked wood.

Chypre

Ambroxan

9 scents

Dry, warm and ambery-woody with a clean, mineral, almost salty radiance.

Woody

Incense

7 scents

Smoky, resinous and meditative — dry, cool church-smoke with a peppery, lemony lift.

Oriental

Tobacco

7 scents

Warm, dry and sweet — like a pipe pouch and honeyed pipe-smoke, with hay, leather and spice.

Leather

Leather

6 scents

Smoky, dry and animalic — from soft, sweet suede to tarry, smoke-cured hide.

Leather

Oud

3 scents

Deep, dense and complex — woody, smoky, leathery and faintly animalic, the most opulent of woods.

Woody

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