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Editor’s note pending — every credited perfumer eventually gets a written profile here.
The compositions
Sculpture
Nikos Sculpture opens on a paradox: the slight anise-green bite of tarragon alongside bright lemon, bergamot, and freesia.
Jazz
Jazz is old-school masculinity done with conviction — a fougère-oriental that opens in a spiced rush of cinnamon, lavender, cardamom, and basil, all edged with anise and bergamot.
Barkhane
Barkhane announces its character early: bergamot's brightness burns off quickly, and cumin takes over — warm, slightly carnal, the kind of note that divides rooms.
La Collection Jazz
Alahine
Alahine opens with a rush of lavender that feels neither soapy nor aromatic in the usual sense—there's brightness from bergamot and a pink pepper shimmer that keeps it from settling into anything expected.
Oha
Oha opens with a clean burst of bergamot that quickly clears the runway for what follows: a full-throated rose accord built from Bulgarian and generic rose, jasmine hovering alongside it, and cardamom lending a warm spiced edge that tilts the composition eastward.