Elemi

Lolita Lempicka

Si-Lolita opens with a bright bergamot that quickly gives way to its heart: a pillowy heliotrope accord dusted with pink pepper's dry warmth.

Penhaligon'S

Omniscient Mr Thompson opens with a soft billow of lavender and elemi resin — the kind of scent that conjures a well-lined library, papers stacked with purpose.

Jeanne En Provence

Lemon opens cleanly — not sharp or synthetic, closer to the zested rind before it softens into blood orange's slightly sweeter, more rounded citrus.

Maison Crivelli

Elemi and black pepper open with a resinous-spiced brightness — elemi's fresh incense quality alongside pepper's dry heat, coriander adding an herbal sharpness.

Comme Des Garçons

Avignon opens with a luminous, almost ecclesiastical haze—roman chamomile and aldehydes suggest parchment and cool stone, while elemi adds a faintly citrus-resinous brightness.

Amouage

Opus XII opens with frankincense, elemi, and a black-ink accord most prominent in the first minutes — a slightly cold, astringent quality before the smoke and resin begin to warm.

Dolce & Gabbana

Velvet Incenso earns its name honestly.

Amouage

Rose Incense (Library Collection) opens with frankincense and elemi, a resinous-citrus pairing that gives the opening an almost medicinal brightness before the smoke settles.

O Boticário

A clean aromatic masculine from 2000 that builds on the classic fougère blueprint without ornamentation.

Giorgio Armani

Santal Dan Sha — part of Armani Privé's 2022 collection — is sandalwood at its most unhurried.

Calvin Klein

Elemi — a resinous material with a citric, slightly piney edge — opens alongside mandarin, giving the top notes transparent brightness with a faint incense undertone.

O Boticário

Zaad Arctic opens with grapefruit and bergamot alongside water notes and ice — a citrus-aquatic signature that reads as clean and cool without being generic.

Kenzo

Kenzo Homme Sport Extreme takes the sport masculine genre to a temperature extreme — the opening is icy peppermint with black pepper adding bite rather than warmth, lemon cutting any remaining sweetness.

Penhaligon'S

The Omniscient Mr Thompson plays the part of a butler who knows where every body is buried.

Natura

Água de Banho Priprioca is part of Natura's Ekos line, which sources ingredients directly from Amazon biodiversity programs.

Natura

Named for the Copaifera tree — an Amazonian species whose trunk yields a thin, aromatic balsam oil used in both traditional medicine and perfumery.

Yves Saint Laurent

Carlos Benaïm's 2015 Caban opens on three peppers stacked together — elemi, pink, black — that read as one bright resinous burst rather than three discrete materials.

Zara

Despite the name, no leather appears in the actual pyramid — this is a smoky resin study, full stop.