BORNTOSTANDOUT · Florian Gallo

Smokin' Gun

Top luxury$$$$$, 5 of 5

VersionEau de Parfum

Bitter Campari, spiced rum and orange over peated-whisky smoke, leather and oak, drying down to cedar, tobacco and vanilla.

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The drawn Smokin' Gun bottle

When you spray ittop notes

As it settlesheart notes

What staysdry-down notes

Smokin' Gun’s scent picture, a draft: rum, bitter orange, juniper, frankincense, leather, cinnamon drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

When you spray ittop notes

Smokin' Gun, when you spray it: Campari, Rum, Bitter orange, Juniper

As it settlesheart notes

Smokin' Gun, as it settles: Frankincense, Leather, Cinnamon, Oak, Peated whisky, Pine

What staysdry-down notes

Smokin' Gun, what stays: Cedar, Tobacco, Vanilla, Sandalwood, Coumarin (new-mown hay)

What’s inside it

What the label names

9 scent ingredients on the label, familiar names first.

A label must name certain ingredients, most of them ones that can cause allergies; some houses print more. It is never the whole recipe.

2 citrus1 herbs & lavender3 florals1 sweet2 spices

4 more lines on the label, not there for the smell

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Our match of the notes

Shares its notes

Decision 42Amouage · shares bitter orange (neroli, orange blossom, petitgrain), juniper, frankincense, cinnamon and 4 more$550 for 100 ml · about the same as Smokin' Gun’s $230
Ombré Leather ReserveTom Ford · shares juniper, frankincense, leather, pine and 2 more$300 for 100 ml
Sunken TobaccoBeauFort London · shares juniper, frankincense, oak, cedar (Atlas cedar) and 1 more$170 for 50 ml
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Matched by the notes each house names. A shared note is not a promise they smell alike.