Initio · 2015

Mystic Experience

VersionEau de Parfum

Initio says

You’ll smell coffee, musk, vanilla and patchouli.

The house’s page

Top notesthe first minutes

Heartthe first hours

Dry-downhours later

Mystic Experience’s scent picture, a draft: coffee, musk, vanilla, patchouli, virginia-cedar, cedar drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

Heartthe first hours

Mystic Experience, heart: Musk

Dry-downhours later

Mystic Experience, dry-down: coffee, Vanilla, Patchouli, virginia-cedar, Cedar, Iso E Super, Coumarin

On the label

What’s inside it

10 scent ingredients on the label, familiar names first.

1 florals5 woods2 sweet1 musks1 powder

Florals1

Hexyl cinnamal

Woods5

Cedarwood oilPatchouli oilCedarwood oilIso E Super (pencil shavings)Vertofix

Sweet2

Vanillin (vanilla)Coumarin (tonka)

Musks1

Galaxolide (clean linen)

Powder1

alpha-Isomethyl ionone (powder puff)

Not in Ingredients yet3

Beta-caryophyllene, not in Ingredients yetIsoeugenyl acetate, not in Ingredients yetPinene, not in Ingredients yet

Not for the smell4

AlcoholWaterBenzyl alcoholBHT (keeps it fresh)

Named by Initio, never on a label

CoffeeMusk, not in Ingredients yetVanilla

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