Carolina Herrera · 2021

Amethyst Haze

Luxury$$$$, 4 of 5
Carolina Herrera asks $340 for 100 ml
100 ml$340

The houseUnisex

VersionEau de Parfum

Cardamom and pink pepper over Provençal lavender and coffee, settling into vanilla, patchouli and soft cashmere wood.

Carolina Herrera says

You’ll smell Pink Pepper, cardamom, Lavender Flower, coffee, vanilla and patchouli.

More from Carolina Herrera’s description

It also mentions Provençal lavender, Cashmere wood and Vanilla Bourbon.

The house’s page

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The drawn Amethyst Haze bottle

When you spray ittop notes

As it settlesheart notes

What staysdry-down notes

Amethyst Haze’s scent picture, a draft: pink pepper, cardamom, lavender, coffee, vanilla, patchouli drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

When you spray ittop notes

Amethyst Haze, when you spray it: Pink pepper, Cardamom, Citral (lemon)

As it settlesheart notes

Amethyst Haze, as it settles: Lavender, Coffee

What staysdry-down notes

Amethyst Haze, what stays: Vanilla, Patchouli, Cashmeran (cashmere wood), Coumarin (new-mown hay), alpha-Isomethyl ionone (violet)

What’s inside it

What Carolina Herrera names

Pink PepperCardamomLavender FlowerCoffeeVanillaPatchouliCashmere wood (cashmere wood)

What the label names

7 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 & lavender2 florals1 sweet1 powder

Citrus2

LimoneneCitral (lemon)

Herbs & lavender1

Linalool

Florals2

Hexyl cinnamal (aldehydes)Geraniol (rose)

Sweet1

Coumarin (new-mown hay)

Powder1

alpha-Isomethyl ionone (violet) (powder puff)
9 more lines on the label, not there for the smell

Not for the smell9

AlcoholWaterOctisalate (a UV filter)Avobenzone (a UV filter)Benzyl benzoateBenzyl alcoholBenzotriazolyl dodecyl p-cresol, not in Ingredients yetButylphthalimide, not in Ingredients yetIsopropylphthalimide, not in Ingredients yet

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Our match of the notes

Shares its notes

White in BlackLalique · shares pink pepper, cardamom, lavender, vanilla and 1 more$135 for 125 ml · about a third of Amethyst Haze’s $340
Opus XVI TimberAmouage · shares pink pepper, cardamom, lavender, vanilla and 1 more$395 for 100 ml · about the same as Amethyst Haze’s $340
ElsewhereAmouage · shares pink pepper, cardamom, coffee, vanilla and 1 more$475 for 100 ml
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Matched by the notes each house names. A shared note is not a promise they smell alike.