Marc-Antoine Barrois · 2019 · Quentin Bisch

Ganymede

Premium$$$, 3 of 5
Marc-Antoine Barrois asks $200 for 100 ml
30 ml$120
100 ml$200

VersionEau de Parfum

Bright mandarin and apricot-soft osmanthus over spicy, salty immortelle, drying to a mineral, almost metallic suede leather and woods.

Marc-Antoine Barrois says

You’ll smell mandarin, osmanthus, Leather Accord, Akigalawood and immortelle.

More from Marc-Antoine Barrois’s description

It also mentions Apricot, Violet, Leather (suede), Leather, Saffron, Spices, Hay, Mineral notes, Mandarin and Accord cuir.

The house’s page

Top noteswhen you spray it

Heartas it settles

Dry-downwhat stays

Ganymede’s scent picture, a draft: mandarin, osmanthus, leather, akigalawood (oud), immortelle, apricot drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

Top noteswhen you spray it

Ganymede, top notes: Mandarin, Violet

Heartas it settles

Ganymede, heart: Leather, Apricot

Dry-downwhat stays

Ganymede, dry-down: Osmanthus, Akigalawood (oud), Immortelle, Saffron, Hay, Iso E Super (pencil shavings)

What’s inside it

What Marc-Antoine Barrois names

MandarinOsmanthusLeather AccordAkigalawood (oud)ImmortelleApricotVioletSaffronHay

What the label names

19 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.

4 citrus5 herbs & lavender4 florals1 woods3 spices1 musks1 powder

Citrus4

Limonenealpha-TerpineneTerpinoleneCitral

Herbs & lavender5

PineneLinalyl acetateTerpineolLinaloolCarvone

Florals4

Rose ketonesCitronellolGeranyl acetateGeraniol

Woods1

Iso E Super (pencil shavings)

Spices3

Eugenolbeta-CaryophylleneIsoeugenol

Musks1

Hexadecanolactone

Powder1

alpha-Isomethyl ionone (powder puff)
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

NefsNishane · shares osmanthus, Leather Accord, agarwood, violet (sweet violet) and 1 more$665 for 50 ml
SequenceAmouage · shares osmanthus, Leather Accord, agarwood and saffron$475 for 100 ml · about twice Ganymede’s $200
Suede IbriAmouage · shares Leather Accord, violet (sweet violet) and saffron$540 for 12 ml
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Matched by the notes each house names. A shared note is not a promise they smell alike.