Dries Van Noten · 2024 · Suzy Le Helley

Bitter Splash

Luxury$$$$, 4 of 5
Dries Van Noten asks about $319 for 100 ml
100 mlabout $319

The houseUnisex

VersionEau de Parfum

Zesty grapefruit and cypress over powdery iris and geranium, drying down to soft leather, vetiver and cedar.

Dries Van Noten says

You’ll smell grapefruit, cypress, iris (orris accord), Carrot Seeds Accord, geranium, Leather Accord, vetiver and cedarwood.

More from Dries Van Noten’s description

It also mentions Pomelo and Iris.

The house’s page

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When you spray ittop notes

As it settlesheart notes

What staysdry-down notes

Bitter Splash’s scent picture, a draft: grapefruit, cypress, iris, carrot, geranium, leather drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

When you spray ittop notes

Bitter Splash, when you spray it: Grapefruit, Cypress

As it settlesheart notes

Bitter Splash, as it settles: Iris, Carrot, Geranium, Pomelo

What staysdry-down notes

Bitter Splash, what stays: Leather, Vetiver, Cedar, Oakmoss

What’s inside it

What Dries Van Noten names

GrapefruitCypressIris (orris accord)Carrot Seeds AccordGeraniumLeather AccordVetiverCedarwoodPomelo

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 powder1 earth & moss

Citrus2

LimoneneCitral

Herbs & lavender1

Linalool

Florals2

CitronellolGeraniol (rose)

Powder1

alpha-Isomethyl ionone (powder puff)

Earth & moss1

Oakmoss absolute
3 more lines on the label, not there for the smell

Not for the smell3

AlcoholWaterAvobenzone (a UV filter)

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Our match of the notes

Shares its notes

Silently, HwylAesop · shares cypress, geranium (rose geranium), Leather Accord, vetiver and 1 more$360 for 100 ml · about the same as Bitter Splash’s about $319
African LeatherMemo Paris · shares grapefruit, geranium (rose geranium), Leather Accord, vetiver and 1 more$350 for 75 ml
Ralph's ClubRalph Lauren · shares grapefruit, geranium (rose geranium), vetiver and cedar (Atlas cedar)$130 for 100 ml · about a third of Bitter Splash’s about $319
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Matched by the notes each house names. A shared note is not a promise they smell alike.