Initio · 2021

Oud for Happiness

VersionEau de Parfum

Initio says

You’ll smell bergamot, ginger, liquorice, vanilla, cedarwood, oud and musk.

The house’s page

Top notesthe first minutes

Heartthe first hours

Dry-downhours later

Oud for Happiness’s scent picture, a draft: bergamot, ginger, liquorice, vanilla, cedar, oud drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

Top notesthe first minutes

Oud for Happiness, top notes: Bergamot, ginger, Lemon, Sweet orange, Lavender

Heartthe first hours

Oud for Happiness, heart: liquorice, Musk

Dry-downhours later

Oud for Happiness, dry-down: Vanilla, Cedar, Oud, virginia-cedar

On the label

What’s inside it

17 scent ingredients on the label, familiar names first.

5 citrus5 herbs & lavender4 florals2 woods1 sweet

Citrus5

Bergamot oilLimoneneLemon oilBitter orange oilCitral

Herbs & lavender5

Lavender oilCamphorLinalyl acetateLinaloolTerpineol

Florals4

HydroxycitronellalGeranyl acetateGeraniolCitronellol

Woods2

Cedarwood oilVertofix

Sweet1

Vanillin (vanilla)

Not in Ingredients yet4

Pinene, not in Ingredients yetBeta-caryophyllene, not in Ingredients yetTerpinolene, not in Ingredients yetAlpha-terpinene, not in Ingredients yet

Not for the smell2

AlcoholWater

Named by Initio, never on a label

GingerLiquorice, not in Ingredients yetVanillaOudMusk, 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: 17 scent ingredients on this label. A shared name, not a shared smell.