Cloves

DS Durga

Jazmin Yucatan opens on the lighter, more transparent side of jasmine: bergamot and water notes provide a bright, slightly damp freshness while passion flower adds a tropical sweetness that suggests humidity rather than heat.

Editions de Parfums Frédéric Malle

Vétiver Extraordinaire is exactly what its title claims: an intensified study of a single material, built around a concentration of 25% pure Haitian vetiver oil.

Hermès

Jean-Claude Ellena's Brasil entry opens with something almost savory — dried pimento and paprika powdering the air before a breath of cloves cuts through.

Diptyque

Diptyque's founding fragrance, created in 1968 by artist Desmond Knox-Leet, was inspired by an old English recipe combining rose, geranium, and cloves.

Giorgio Armani

Emporio Remix for Her opens with a distinctive accord: pear and cranberry provide the fruit, while star anise adds a herbal, licorice-edged sharpness that distinguishes this from the typical 2006 fruity feminine.

Yves Saint Laurent

Sleek Suede opens with a complex spice cluster — cacao pod, pepper, cloves, and nutmeg over incense — that is richer and more enveloping than its name suggests.

Yves Rocher

Nuit Vanille opens on bergamot before settling into a white-floral heart — jasmine and orange blossom with a quieter rose — that bridges day into evening.

Montale

Opening notes of black pepper, clove, orange, and mandarin are spiced and citrus-warm simultaneously — the pepper is sharp, the clove rounds it, the orange keeps it from going fully austere.

Lattafa Perfumes

Ra Ed Silver opens with a single citrus note — mandarin orange — that reads more as a transitional accord marker than a developed top, fading quickly.

Dior

Leather Oud arrives with a brief lift of bergamot before the composition descends quickly into its true subject: smoke-cured leather laid over dense oud and sandalwood.

Etro

The name translates to rubber, and the fragrance lives up to it — birch tar pulls a smoky, almost-asphalt edge into the heart, where leather and jasmine make an unlikely pairing: the floral cleaning up the smoke just enough to keep it wearable.

Lattafa Perfumes

Ameer leads with a brisk, slightly rustic combination — apple, rosemary, and pink pepper — that keeps the opening grounded rather than sweet.

Comme Des Garçons

Series 4 is the Cologne set, and Vettiveru (2002) is the woody anchor.

Giorgio Armani

The Remix takes the aromatic spice direction and complicates it with an unexpected element: lily of the valley threading through a heart otherwise occupied by nutmeg and cardamom.

Rasasi

The opening is unusual — clove warmth softened by green violet leaf, herbal and slightly bitter before the pyramid turns inward.

Yves Saint Laurent

Opium opens with a spice rack shaken loose by jasmine and plum — clove and pepper rush forward, bergamot lending a citrus scaffolding, the whole opening both declarative and deliberately exotic.

Zara

Saffron and cloves open with the warm metallic-spice signature of a classic Arabian-inflected accord — immediately rich without turning dense.