Emil Élise

Melting Lust

The houseUnisex

VersionEau de Parfum

Rum-soaked cherry and resinous elemi over rose and lavender, drying down to mossy patchouli, amber and musk.

A shop’s page says

You’ll smell benzoin, elemiharz, kirsche, rum, balsam, guaiac wood (guajakholz), lavender, rose, amber, oakmoss (moos), moschus and patchouli.

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When you spray ittop notes

As it settlesheart notes

What staysdry-down notes

Melting Lust’s scent picture, a draft: benzoin, rum, amber, rose, patchouli, coumarin (new-mown hay) drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

When you spray ittop notes

Melting Lust, when you spray it: Benzoin, Elemiharz, Kirsche, Rum, Limonene (orange peel)

As it settlesheart notes

Melting Lust, as it settles: Amber, Guajakholz, Lavendel, Rose

What staysdry-down notes

Melting Lust, what stays: Moos, Moschus, Patchouli, Coumarin (new-mown hay)

What’s inside it

What a shop’s page names

BenzoinElemiharzKirscheRumBalsamGuaiac wood (guajakholz)LavenderRoseOakmoss (moos)MoschusPatchouli

What the label names

5 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.

1 citrus1 herbs & lavender1 sweet1 amber & resins1 spices

Citrus1

Limonene (orange peel)

Herbs & lavender1

Linalool

Sweet1

Coumarin (new-mown hay)

Amber & resins1

Benzyl cinnamate

Spices1

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

Not for the smell4

AlcoholWaterBenzyl benzoateBenzyl alcohol

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Our match of the notes

Shares its notes

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