Initio · 2025

Power Self

VersionExtrait de Parfum

Initio says

You’ll smell White Flowers, osmanthus, White Rose, magnolia, Pink Pepper, Ambrox, musk and cedarwood.

The house’s page

Top notesthe first minutes

Heartthe first hours

Dry-downhours later

Power Self’s scent picture, a draft: osmanthus, rose, magnolia, pink pepper, ambrox, musk drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

Top notesthe first minutes

Power Self, top notes: magnolia, Pink pepper

Heartthe first hours

Power Self, heart: Rose, Musk

Dry-downhours later

Power Self, dry-down: osmanthus, Ambrox, Cedar, Iso E Super, Vanillin

On the label

What’s inside it

10 scent ingredients on the label, familiar names first.

1 citrus1 herbs & lavender3 florals2 woods1 sweet1 musks1 powder

Citrus1

Limonene

Herbs & lavender1

Linalool

Florals3

HydroxycitronellalFarnesolRose ketones

Woods2

Iso E Super (pencil shavings)Vertofix

Sweet1

Vanillin (vanilla)

Musks1

Galaxolide (clean linen)

Powder1

alpha-Isomethyl ionone (powder puff)

Not in Ingredients yet4

Dimethyl phenethyl acetate, not in Ingredients yetPinene, not in Ingredients yetHexadecanolactone, not in Ingredients yetBeta-caryophyllene, not in Ingredients yet

Not for the smell5

AlcoholWaterVitamin EBenzyl alcoholBenzyl benzoate

Named by Initio, never on a label

OsmanthusWhite RoseMagnoliaPink PepperAmbrox (ambergris)Musk, not in Ingredients yetCedarwood

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.