Spell Caramel
Blood orange opens bright and sharp, with ginger and cardamom giving the citrus a warming edge rather than cooling it.
The scent fingerprint
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- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Blood Orange
- Cardamom
- Licorice
- Davana
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readBlood orange opens bright and sharp, with ginger and cardamom giving the citrus a warming edge rather than cooling it. Licorice and davana in the heart are an unusual pairing — davana's dried fruit and anise-herbal quality plays well against licorice's more direct anise sweetness, and the combination adds unexpected texture.
The base is unambiguously gourmand: caramel and vanilla share the stage with osmanthus, which pulls in a subtle peach-apricot fruitiness that keeps the sweetness from being one-dimensional. On the whole, this reads as a fruity-sweet Oriental — accessible, warm, and more complex than the single-word name suggests. Best in cool weather when the sweetness becomes comfort rather than excess.
Scent twins
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