Frédéric Malle · 2023 · Jean-Claude Ellena

Heaven Can Wait

Top luxury$$$$$, 5 of 5

The houseUnisex

VersionEau de Parfum

Honeyed peach and plum with a pepper-and-clove spark, over powdery iris and vetiver, ending in vanilla and white musk.

Frédéric Malle says

You’ll smell clove, iris, vetiver, vanilla and white musk.

More from Frédéric Malle’s description

It also mentions Capsicum, Peach, Plum, Honeyed notes, Allspice (pimento), Ambrette, Carrot seed and Plum (prune).

The house’s page

The drawn Heaven Can Wait bottle

Top noteswhen you spray it

Heartas it settles

Dry-downwhat stays

Heaven Can Wait’s scent picture, a draft: clove, iris, vetiver, vanilla, white musk, peach drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

Top noteswhen you spray it

Heaven Can Wait, top notes: Citral (lemon)

Heartas it settles

Heaven Can Wait, heart: Clove, Peach, Plum, Allspice, Carrot, Citronellol (rose)

Dry-downwhat stays

Heaven Can Wait, dry-down: Iris, Vetiver, Vanilla, White musk, Ambrette

What’s inside it

What the label names

9 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 citrus1 herbs & lavender4 florals2 spices

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

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Our match of the notes

Shares its notes

No1 FeminineClive Christian · shares orris, vanilla, peach, plum and 1 moreabout $859 for 50 ml
OscarOscar de la Renta · shares clove, orris, vetiver, vanilla and 1 more$109 for 100 ml · about a quarter of Heaven Can Wait’s $410
Hundred Silent WaysNishane · shares orris, vetiver, vanilla and peach$375 for 100 ml · about the same as Heaven Can Wait’s $410
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Matched by the notes each house names. A shared note is not a promise they smell alike.