Jo Malone London · 2020

Midnight Musk & Amber Cologne

The houseUnisex

Citrusy mandarin and juniper over musk and amber, with a faint mossy depth.

A shop’s page says

You’ll smell musk, amber, juniper and mandarin.

More from Jo Malone London’s description

It also mentions Citrus.

The shop’s page

Top noteswhen you spray it

Heartas it settles

Dry-downwhat stays

Midnight Musk & Amber Cologne’s scent picture, a draft: musk, amber, juniper, mandarin, oakmoss, coumarin (new-mown hay) drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

Top noteswhen you spray it

Midnight Musk & Amber Cologne, top notes: Juniper, Mandarin

Heartas it settles

Midnight Musk & Amber Cologne, heart: Geraniol (rose)

Dry-downwhat stays

Midnight Musk & Amber Cologne, dry-down: Musk, Amber, Oakmoss, Coumarin (new-mown hay)

What’s inside it

What a shop’s page names

What the label names

8 scent ingredients on the label, familiar names first.

A label must name certain ingredients, most of them ones that can cause allergies; some houses print more. It is never the whole recipe.

2 citrus1 herbs & lavender3 florals1 sweet1 earth & moss

7 more lines on the label, not there for the smell

Not for the smell7

AlcoholWaterBenzyl benzoateOctinoxate (a UV filter)Avobenzone (a UV filter)Octisalate (a UV filter)Pentaerythrityl tetra-di-t-butyl hydroxyhydrocinnamate, not in Ingredients yet

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Our match of the notes

Shares its notes

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Matched by the notes each house names. A shared note is not a promise they smell alike.