Boucheron · 1998 · Annick Ménardo

Jaïpur Homme

The houseFor men

VersionEau de Parfum

Bergamot and clove over cinnamon, nutmeg and violet, drying to warm vanilla and amber.

A shop’s page says

You’ll smell bergamot, clove, cinnamon, nutmeg, violet, vanilla and amber.

The shop’s page

Top noteswhen you spray it

Heartas it settles

Dry-downwhat stays

Jaïpur Homme’s scent picture, a draft: bergamot, clove, cinnamon, nutmeg, violet, vanilla drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

Top noteswhen you spray it

Jaïpur Homme, top notes: Bergamot, Clove

Heartas it settles

Jaïpur Homme, heart: Cinnamon, Nutmeg, Violet

Dry-downwhat stays

Jaïpur Homme, dry-down: Vanilla, Amber, Coumarin (new-mown hay)

What’s inside it

What a shop’s page names

BergamotCloveCinnamonNutmegVioletVanilla

What the label names

8 scent ingredients on the label, familiar names first.

A label must name certain ingredients, most of them ones that can cause allergies; some houses print more. It is never the whole recipe.

1 citrus1 herbs & lavender1 florals1 sweet3 spices1 powder

Citrus1

Limonene

Herbs & lavender1

Linalool

Florals1

Hexyl cinnamal (aldehydes)

Sweet1

Coumarin (new-mown hay)

Spices3

EugenolCinnamalIsoeugenol

Powder1

alpha-Isomethyl ionone (powder puff)
7 more lines on the label, not there for the smell

Not for the smell7

AlcoholWaterBenzyl benzoateCi 19140Ci 14700Ci 17200Benzophenone-1, not in Ingredients yet

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Our match of the notes

Shares its notes

Erba GoldXerjoff · shares bergamot, clove, cinnamon and vanilla$294 for 100 ml
KhamrahLattafa · shares bergamot, cinnamon, nutmeg and vanilla$49.99 for 100 ml
NefsNishane · shares cinnamon, nutmeg, violet (sweet violet) and vanilla$665 for 50 ml

Matched by the notes each house names. A shared note is not a promise they smell alike.