Penhaligon's · 2026

Changing Constance Intense

VersionEau de Parfum

Warm saffron and pimento spice over salted caramel, with a hint of jasmine, settling onto sweet vanilla.

A shop’s page says

You’ll smell saffron, allspice (pimento) and Salted Caramel.

Top noteswhen you spray it

Heartas it settles

Dry-downwhat stays

Changing Constance Intense’s scent picture, a draft: saffron, allspice, salted caramel, bergamot, jasmine, iso e super (pencil shavings on velvet) drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

Top noteswhen you spray it

Changing Constance Intense, top notes: Bergamot

Heartas it settles

Changing Constance Intense, heart: Allspice, Salted caramel, Jasmine

Dry-downwhat stays

Changing Constance Intense, dry-down: Saffron, Iso E Super (pencil shavings on velvet), Vanillin (vanilla), Coumarin (new-mown hay), Hexadecanolactone (musk)

What’s inside it

What a shop’s page names

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.

5 citrus4 herbs & lavender3 florals2 woods2 sweet2 spices1 musks1 powder

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

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Our match of the notes

Shares its notes

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ItalicaXerjoff · shares saffron and Salted Caramel$300 for 100 ml
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