Initio · 2015 · Alberto Morillas

Blessed Baraka

Top luxury$$$$$, 5 of 5

The houseUnisex

VersionEau de Parfum

A soft, milky sandalwood and musk with white flowers and vanilla.

Initio says

You’ll smell White Flowers, amber, sandalwood, vanilla and musk.

The drawn Blessed Baraka bottle

Top noteswhen you spray it

Heartas it settles

Dry-downwhat stays

Blessed Baraka’s scent picture, a draft: white flowers, amber, sandalwood, vanilla (vanillin), musk, patchouli drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

Top noteswhen you spray it

Blessed Baraka, top notes: Sweet orange

Heartas it settles

Blessed Baraka, heart: White flowers, Clove, Cinnamon

Dry-downwhat stays

Blessed Baraka, dry-down: Amber, Sandalwood, Vanilla (vanillin), Musk, Patchouli, Iso E Super (pencil shavings on velvet), Coumarin (new-mown hay)

What’s inside it

What Initio names

What the label names

32 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.

5 citrus4 herbs & lavender9 florals3 woods3 sweet1 amber & resins6 spices1 musks

6 more lines on the label, not there for the smell

Not for the smell6

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Our match of the notes

Shares its notes

Jasmin 17Le Labo · shares sandalwood, vanilla and cashmere knit$348 for 100 ml
Angel BlushMugler · shares sandalwood, vanilla and cashmere knit$195 for 100 ml · about half of Blessed Baraka’s $410
Bleu de ChanelChanel · shares sandalwood, vanilla and cashmere knit$173 for 100 ml · about a third of Blessed Baraka’s $410
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Matched by the notes each house names. A shared note is not a promise they smell alike.