Brandt

Porcelain Fog

Premium$$$, 3 of 5
Brandt asks $245 for 100 ml
30 ml$115
100 ml$245

The houseUnisex

VersionEau de Parfum

Bergamot and smoky Earl Grey tea over steamed milk, lavender and honey, settling into vanilla, sandalwood and soft musk.

Brandt says

You’ll smell bergamot, Earl Grey Tea, Smoky Accord, Steamed Milk Accord, lavender, Whipped Honey, sandalwood, Vanilla Absolute, White Musk and ambergris.

More from Brandt’s description

It also mentions Bergamot oil, Steamed milk, Vanilla bean, Lavendered honey and Smoky.

The house’s page

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When you spray ittop notes

As it settlesheart notes

What staysdry-down notes

Porcelain Fog’s scent picture, a draft: bergamot, tea, steamed milk, lavender, whipped honey, sandalwood drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

When you spray ittop notes

Porcelain Fog, when you spray it: Bergamot, Tea, Smoky accord

As it settlesheart notes

Porcelain Fog, as it settles: Steamed milk, Lavender, Whipped honey, Geraniol (rose)

What staysdry-down notes

Porcelain Fog, what stays: Sandalwood, Vanilla, White musk, Ambergris, Coumarin (new-mown hay)

What’s inside it

What Brandt names

BergamotEarl Grey TeaSteamed Milk AccordLavenderWhipped HoneySandalwoodVanilla AbsoluteWhite MuskAmbergrisSmoky

What the label names

8 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 sweet1 amber & resins

Citrus2

LimoneneCitral

Herbs & lavender1

Linalool

Florals3

Benzyl salicylateFarnesolGeraniol (rose) (rose)

Sweet1

Coumarin (new-mown hay)

Amber & resins1

Benzyl cinnamate
3 more lines on the label, not there for the smell

Not for the smell3

AlcoholBenzyl benzoateBenzyl alcohol

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Our match of the notes

Shares its notes

Musc RavageurFrédéric Malle · shares bergamot, lavender, sandalwood, vanilla and 1 more$410 for 100 ml
Honey OudBella Vita · shares bergamot, Whipped Honey, vanilla and ambergrisabout $10 for 100 ml · about a tenth of Porcelain Fog’s $245
Wild RushInitio · shares bergamot, lavender, sandalwood and vanilla$420 for 90 ml · about twice Porcelain Fog’s $245

Matched by the notes each house names. A shared note is not a promise they smell alike.