Initio · 2015 · Alberto Morillas

Blessed Baraka

VersionEau de Parfum

Initio says

You’ll smell White Flowers, amber, sandalwood, vanilla and musk.

The house’s page

Top notesthe first minutes

Heartthe first hours

Dry-downhours later

Blessed Baraka’s scent picture, a draft: sandalwood, vanilla, musk, patchouli, clove, cinnamon drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

Top notesthe first minutes

Blessed Baraka, top notes: Sweet orange

Heartthe first hours

Blessed Baraka, heart: Musk, clove, cinnamon

Dry-downhours later

Blessed Baraka, dry-down: Sandalwood, Vanilla, Patchouli, Iso E Super, Coumarin

On the label

What’s inside it

27 scent ingredients on the label, familiar names first.

3 citrus3 herbs & lavender8 florals3 woods3 sweet1 amber & resins5 spices1 musks

Citrus3

LimoneneBitter orange oilCitral

Herbs & lavender3

Linalyl acetateLinaloolTerpineol

Florals8

Benzyl salicylateHexyl cinnamalGeraniolRose ketonesGeranyl acetateCitronellolFarnesolMethyl benzoate

Woods3

Patchouli oilSantalolIso E Super (pencil shavings)

Sweet3

Vanillin (vanilla)Coumarin (tonka)Benzaldehyde

Amber & resins1

Benzyl cinnamate

Spices5

EugenolClove bud oilCinnamon bark oilAnetholeCinnamal

Musks1

Galaxolide (clean linen)

Not in Ingredients yet5

Cinnamyl alcohol, not in Ingredients yetPinene, not in Ingredients yetBeta-caryophyllene, not in Ingredients yetTerpinolene, not in Ingredients yetAlpha-terpinene, not in Ingredients yet

Not for the smell6

AlcoholWaterBenzyl benzoateBHT (keeps it fresh)Benzyl alcoholPhenoxyethanol, not in Ingredients yet

Named by Initio, never on a label

SandalwoodVanillaMusk, 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: 27 scent ingredients on this label. A shared name, not a shared smell.