Marc-Antoine Barrois · 2022 · Quentin Bisch

Encelade

Premium$$$, 3 of 5
Marc-Antoine Barrois asks about $224 for 100 ml
30 mlabout $134
100 mlabout $224

VersionEau de Parfum

Tart rhubarb and smoky leather over dry vetiver and cedar, settling into sandalwood, tonka, bitter almond and hay.

Marc-Antoine Barrois says

You’ll smell rhubarb, Atlas Cedar, vetiver, Leather Accord, Tonka Bean and sandalwood.

More from Marc-Antoine Barrois’s description

It also mentions Smoky leather, Sand vetiver, Bitter almond, Hay and Tobacco notes.

The house’s page

The drawn Encelade bottle

Top noteswhen you spray it

Heartas it settles

Dry-downwhat stays

Encelade’s scent picture, a draft: rhubarb, cedar, vetiver, leather, tonka (coumarin), sandalwood drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

Top noteswhen you spray it

Encelade, top notes: Almond

Heartas it settles

Encelade, heart: Rhubarb, Cinnamal (cinnamon)

Dry-downwhat stays

Encelade, dry-down: Cedar, Vetiver, Leather, Tonka (coumarin), Sandalwood, Hay, Tobacco, Iso E Super (pencil shavings on velvet)

What’s inside it

What Marc-Antoine Barrois names

RhubarbAtlas CedarVetiverLeather AccordTonka BeanSandalwoodBitter almondHayTobacco notes

What the label names

11 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 herbs & lavender2 florals4 woods1 sweet3 spices

Herbs & lavender1

Linalool

Florals2

Rose ketonesCinnamyl alcohol

Woods4

Cedarwood oilSandalwood oilSantalolIso E Super (pencil shavings on velvet)

Sweet1

Coumarin (new-mown hay)

Spices3

Cinnamal (cinnamon)Isoeugenyl acetateIsoeugenol
2 more lines on the label, not there for the smell

Not for the smell2

AlcoholWater

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Our match of the notes

Shares its notes

Lost CherryTom Ford · shares cedar (Atlas cedar), vetiver, tonka, sandalwood and 1 more$630 for 100 ml
Velvet TonkaBDK Parfums · shares Leather Accord, tonka, almond and tobaccoabout $314 for 100 ml
L'HommeYSL · shares cedar (Atlas cedar), vetiver, tonka and sandalwood$149 for 100 ml
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Matched by the notes each house names. A shared note is not a promise they smell alike.