Ex Idolo

Love & Crime

Luxury$$$$, 4 of 5

The houseUnisex

VersionEau de Parfum

Pink pepper and red mandarin over sugary florals and star anise, sinking into cocoa and vanilla sponge cake.

Ex Idolo says

You’ll smell pink pepper, red mandarin, classic feminine florals, baking sugar, star anise, natural cocoa and vanilla sponge cake.

More from Ex Idolo’s description

It also mentions Cocoa.

The house’s page

Press one to add its card to your shelf.

When you spray ittop notes

As it settlesheart notes

What staysdry-down notes

Love & Crime’s scent picture, a draft: pink pepper, mandarin, floral notes, baking sugar, anise, cacao drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

When you spray ittop notes

Love & Crime, when you spray it: Pink pepper, Mandarin

As it settlesheart notes

Love & Crime, as it settles: Floral notes, Baking sugar, Anise

What staysdry-down notes

Love & Crime, what stays: Cacao, Vanilla, Coumarin (new-mown hay)

What’s inside it

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.

2 citrus1 herbs & lavender1 florals1 sweet

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

NebrasLattafa · shares mandarin, baking sugar, cacao and vanilla$53.99 for 100 ml · about a fifth of Love & Crime’s about $160
AnghamLattafa · shares pink pepper, mandarin, cacao and vanilla$49.99 for 100 ml · about a fifth of Love & Crime’s about $160
EmpressaPenhaligon's · shares pink pepper, mandarin, cacao and vanilla$330 for 100 ml · about the same as Love & Crime’s about $160

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