Herod

Scent Profile

Top notes: Bergamot, Pink Pepper, Nutmeg, Mandarin Orange

Heart notes: Cinnamon, Tobacco, Rose, Cloves

Base notes: Vanilla, Amber, Sandalwood, Patchouli, Musk

Why We Carry This

Herod is Olivier Pescheux at his most direct: tobacco, spice, and resin in a composition that does exactly what it promises. The osmanthus detail in the heart is what separates it from more obvious tobacco fragrances.

Character

Accords: Sweet, Tobacco, Warm Spicy, Woody, Amber, Smoky

Perfumer: Hamid Merati-Kashani

Launched: 2012

Cinnamon opens Herod with a dry spice that avoids going sweet, pepper keeping the top from collapsing into warmth too quickly. Tobacco leaf and osmanthus build the heart together, the osmanthus adding a faint apricot-like quality that softens the tobacco's rougher edges. Labdanum and incense in the deeper heart give the composition its resinous weight, and vanilla in the base anchors everything without sweetening it.