Oak

Bond No. 9

Named after New York City's elevated rail-turned-park, High Line by Bond No.

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.

O Boticário

Zaad Expedition arrives loudly: bergamot, grapefruit, and multiple orange forms crowd the top alongside thyme and apple, the opening bright and herbal simultaneously.

Comme Des Garçons

The Rhubarb opens with a realistic tart-fruit note—rhubarb captured accurately: sour and slightly vegetal, with a candy suggestion underneath—alongside lychee sweetness that tilts the opening toward sherbet brightness.

Cartier

Luxuriance is one of the four 2021 Rivières de Cartier — Mathilde Laurent's sketches of running water in scent — and reads exactly the way the line is meant to: deliberately partial, more concept than full pyramid.

Carolina Herrera

Bad Boy Cobalt leads with lavender and a quick bite of pink pepper — familiar masculine territory, but what distinguishes it is the plum-and-geranium heart, which introduces a soft, almost floral sweetness that prevents the opening from turning generic.

Avon

True Force opens on lavender and tangerine, a clean pairing that balances aromatic softness against citrus brightness.

Penhaligon'S

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

Zara

The citrus opening—bergamot and grapefruit—arrives bright and clean, then pulls back quickly as saffron adds a dry, faintly metallic warmth at the heart.

Bath & Body Works

Oak opens with a classic citrus-herbal accord: bergamot and lemon bright overhead, juniper and clary sage providing coniferous-green depth, aldehydes lending a clean soapy vintage quality.

Oriflame

Possess The Secret Man opens with bergamot, clean and citrus-bright, then shifts quickly into an unusual herbal-aromatic heart: clary sage, absinthe, and orange blossom.

Avon

Perfumer Guillaume Flavigny opens Today Tomorrow Always Wonder with a citrus-green chord — bitter orange and bergamot cut through by violet leaf's cool, slightly metallic freshness.

Bath & Body Works

Whiskey Reserve opens with a bright, almost cidery apple — short-lived but distinctive, less of a polished fruit accord than the candied apple BBW usually does.

Zara

The opening is unusual for Zara — dark chocolate is the lead note, bittersweet and slightly dusty, lifted by oak's dry-cask quality and a fast prick of black pepper.