Marc-Antoine Barrois · 2016 · Quentin Bisch

B683

Premium$$$, 3 of 5

VersionEau de Parfum

Black pepper, chili and saffron with nutmeg and green violet leaf, over leather, patchouli, sandalwood and oakmoss.

Marc-Antoine Barrois says

You’ll smell black pepper, saffron, chilli, Violet Leaf, Leather Accord, patchouli, sandalwood and Oak Moss.

More from Marc-Antoine Barrois’s description

It also mentions Nutmeg.

The house’s page

Top noteswhen you spray it

Heartas it settles

Dry-downwhat stays

B683’s scent picture, a draft: black pepper, saffron, chilli, violet, leather, patchouli drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

Top noteswhen you spray it

B683, top notes: Black pepper, Violet

Heartas it settles

B683, heart: Chilli, Nutmeg

Dry-downwhat stays

B683, dry-down: Saffron, Leather, Patchouli, Sandalwood, Oakmoss, Iso E Super (pencil shavings on velvet), Vanillin (vanilla), Hexadecanolactone (musk)

What’s inside it

What the label names

20 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.

3 citrus4 herbs & lavender4 florals3 woods1 sweet3 spices1 musks1 powder

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

Not for the smell7

AlcoholWaterOctinoxate (a UV filter)Orange 4Red 4Blue 1Diethylamino hydroxybenzoyl hexyl benzoate, not in Ingredients yet

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Our match of the notes

Shares its notes

Fate WomanAmouage · shares black pepper, chilli, Leather Accord, patchouli and 1 more
Epic ManAmouage · shares saffron, Leather Accord, patchouli, sandalwood and 1 more$395 for 100 ml · about twice B683’s about $224
Overture ManAmouage · shares saffron, Leather Accord, patchouli, sandalwood and 1 more$395 for 100 ml · about twice B683’s about $224
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Matched by the notes each house names. A shared note is not a promise they smell alike.