Mancera · 2011 · Pierre Montale

Cedrat Boise

Mid-range$$, 2 of 5
Mancera asks about $153 for 120 ml
60 mlabout $96
120 mlabout $153

VersionEau de Parfum

Zesty Sicilian lemon, blackcurrant and cool spices over watery jasmine and patchouli leaf, drying to woods, leather, oakmoss and vanilla.

Top noteswhen you spray it

Heartas it settles

Dry-downwhat stays

Cedrat Boise’s scent picture, a draft: blackcurrant, cold spices, jasmine, patchouli, woody notes, leather drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

Top noteswhen you spray it

Cedrat Boise, top notes: Citrus from sicily, Blackcurrant, Cold spices, Sweet orange, Lemon

Heartas it settles

Cedrat Boise, heart: Jasmine, Patchouli

Dry-downwhat stays

Cedrat Boise, dry-down: Woody notes, Leather, Oakmoss, Vanilla (vanillin), Peru balsam, Iso E Super (pencil shavings), Galaxolide (musk), Coumarin (tonka)

What’s inside it

What the label names

24 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.

6 citrus4 herbs & lavender5 florals4 woods2 sweet1 amber & resins1 spices1 musks

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

Not for the smell3

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Our match of the notes

Shares its notes

Greenwich VillageBond No. 9 · shares blackcurrant (cassis), jasmine, patchouli, oakmoss and 1 more$470 for 100 ml
Fate WomanAmouage · shares jasmine, patchouli, leather, oakmoss and 1 more
Opulence LeatherMaison Alhambra · shares jasmine, patchouli, leather and oakmoss$25 for 100 ml · about a fifth of Cedrat Boise’s about $153
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Matched by the notes each house names. A shared note is not a promise they smell alike.