Initio · 2016 · Maurice Roucel and Pierre-Constantin Guéros

Addictive Vibration

Top luxury$$$$$, 5 of 5

The houseUnisex

VersionEau de Parfum

A honeyed floral: orange blossom and apple blossom on vanilla and musk.

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The drawn Addictive Vibration bottle

Top noteswhen you spray it

Heartas it settles

Dry-downwhat stays

Addictive Vibration’s scent picture, a draft: apple, orange blossom, honey, vanilla (vanillin), musk, patchouli drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

Heartas it settles

Addictive Vibration, heart: Apple, Orange blossom, Cinnamal (cinnamon)

Dry-downwhat stays

Addictive Vibration, dry-down: Honey, Vanilla (vanillin), Musk, Patchouli, Sandalwood, Iso E Super (pencil shavings on velvet), Coumarin (new-mown hay)

What’s inside it

What the label names

17 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 & lavender4 florals4 woods2 sweet4 spices1 powder

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

Cotton CloudsOakcha · shares apple, bitter orange (neroli, orange blossom, petitgrain), vanilla and cashmere knit$45 for 50 ml · about a fifth of Addictive Vibration’s $410
Shams Al Emarat Khususi Iced PetalArd Al Zaafaran · shares apple, bitter orange (neroli, orange blossom, petitgrain), vanilla and cashmere knit
AurumAjmal · shares bitter orange (neroli, orange blossom, petitgrain), honey, vanilla and cashmere knitabout $47 for 75 ml · about a tenth of Addictive Vibration’s $410
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Matched by the notes each house names. A shared note is not a promise they smell alike.