The Big Smoke

This is a rare amber with no vanillin; we wanted it to smell of dry smoked woods. The Big Smoke is one of London’s nicknames from the days before the Clean Air Act, when fog mixed with coal smoke was too dangerous to go out in.

It feels like a film noire.

We have tobacco, vetiver, a smidge of smoky white birch, a shed load of labdanum blended with frankincense, dark patchouli, Cashmeran Velvet, Cedramber, Ambrox and two musks. Oh yes. There’s a flash of green: cardamon essential oil and aldehyde C10, for its waxy candle-like feel. Have you watched Gaslight, the original? That, but only the ending.