Initio · 2016 · Maurice Roucel and Pierre-Constantin Guéros

Addictive Vibration

VersionEau de Parfum

Initio says

You’ll smell Apple Blossom, Orange Blossom, honey, vanilla and musk.

The house’s page

Top notesthe first minutes

Heartthe first hours

Dry-downhours later

Addictive Vibration’s scent picture, a draft: apple, orange blossom, honey, vanilla, musk, patchouli drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

Heartthe first hours

Addictive Vibration, heart: apple, Orange blossom, Musk

Dry-downhours later

Addictive Vibration, dry-down: honey, Vanilla, Patchouli, Sandalwood, Iso E Super, Coumarin

On the label

What’s inside it

14 scent ingredients on the label, familiar names first.

1 citrus4 florals4 woods2 sweet2 spices1 powder

Citrus1

Limonene

Florals4

Benzyl salicylateGeranyl acetateGeraniolRose ketones

Woods4

Patchouli oilSandalwood oilSantalolIso E Super (pencil shavings)

Sweet2

Vanillin (vanilla)Coumarin (tonka)

Spices2

CinnamalAnethole

Powder1

alpha-Isomethyl ionone (powder puff)

Not in Ingredients yet3

Beta-caryophyllene, not in Ingredients yetPinene, not in Ingredients yet3-propylidenephthalide, not in Ingredients yet

Not for the smell4

AlcoholWaterBenzyl alcoholBenzyl benzoate

Named by Initio, never on a label

Apple Blossom, not in Ingredients yetOrange BlossomHoney, not in Ingredients yetVanillaMusk, not in Ingredients yet

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Wearers say

How far it carries

Perfumers call it sillage.

Close to the skin

An arm’s length

Across a room

Not researched yet. We gather wearers’ reports for the most popular perfumes first.

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Counted from the printed lists: 14 scent ingredients on this label. A shared name, not a shared smell.