Clue · 2024 · Laura Oberwetter

Warm Bulb

The houseUnisex

VersionEau de Parfum

Scorched dust and black pepper over dry immortelle, paper and tobacco, settling into sandalwood and amber-sweet vanilla.

Top noteswhen you spray it

Heartas it settles

Dry-downwhat stays

Warm Bulb’s scent picture, a draft: black pepper, immortelle, tobacco, sandalwood, vanilla, coumarin (new-mown hay) drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

Top noteswhen you spray it

Warm Bulb, top notes: Burning dust, Hot air, Black pepper

Heartas it settles

Warm Bulb, heart: Immortelle, Paper, Tobacco, Geraniol (rose)

Dry-downwhat stays

Warm Bulb, dry-down: Sandalwood, Vanilla, Coumarin (new-mown hay)

What’s inside it

What the label names

4 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.

2 florals1 sweet1 spices

2 more lines on the label, not there for the smell

Not for the smell2

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Our match of the notes

Shares its notes

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