Jo Milano Paris

Game of Spades Bid

Premium$$$, 3 of 5
Jo Milano Paris asks $220 for 100 ml
100 ml$220

The houseUnisex

VersionParfum

Violet and cardamom over powdery iris and salty, ambery woods, drying down to cedar, leather and sandalwood.

Jo Milano Paris says

You’ll smell violet, cardamom, iris, Ambrox, cedarwood, leather and sandalwood.

The house’s page

Top noteswhen you spray it

Heartas it settles

Dry-downwhat stays

Game of Spades Bid’s scent picture, a draft: violet, cardamom, iris, cetalox (ambergris), cedar, leather drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

Top noteswhen you spray it

Game of Spades Bid, top notes: Violet, Cardamom

Heartas it settles

Game of Spades Bid, heart: Iris, Cetalox (ambergris)

Dry-downwhat stays

Game of Spades Bid, dry-down: Cedar, Leather, Sandalwood

What’s inside it

What Jo Milano Paris names

VioletCardamomIrisAmbrox (ambergris)CedarwoodLeatherSandalwood

What the label names

1 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.

1 citrus

Citrus1

Limonene
1 more line on the label, not there for the smell

Not for the smell1

Alcohol

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Wearers say

Smells like it

For more

Santal 33Le Labo · Many of its own wearers call Game of Spades Bid a cheaper copy of it$348 for 100 ml

What wearers say, set beside the price each house asks. Noses differ.

Our match of the notes

Shares its notes

Santal 33Le Labo · shares violet (sweet violet), cardamom, orris, cedar (Atlas cedar) and 2 more$348 for 100 ml
Stallion 53Emper · shares violet (sweet violet), cardamom, orris, leather and 1 more
Club de Nuit SillageArmaf · shares violet (sweet violet), orris, ambergris, cedar (Atlas cedar) and 1 more$50 for 105 ml · about a fifth of Game of Spades Bid’s $220

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