Initio · 2015

Mystic Experience

Luxury$$$$, 4 of 5

The houseUnisex

VersionEau de Parfum

A dark roasted-coffee musk with vanilla and patchouli.

Initio says

You’ll smell coffee, musk, vanilla and patchouli.

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The drawn Mystic Experience bottle

Top noteswhen you spray it

Heartas it settles

Dry-downwhat stays

Mystic Experience’s scent picture, a draft: coffee, musk, vanilla (vanillin), patchouli, virginia cedar, cedar drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

Top noteswhen you spray it

Mystic Experience, top notes: Pinene (pine needles)

Dry-downwhat stays

Mystic Experience, dry-down: Coffee, Musk, Vanilla (vanillin), Patchouli, Virginia cedar, Cedar, Iso E Super (pencil shavings on velvet), Coumarin (new-mown hay), alpha-Isomethyl ionone (violet)

What’s inside it

What the label names

13 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 herbs & lavender1 florals5 woods2 sweet2 spices1 musks1 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

A*MenMugler · shares coffee, vanilla and patchouli$98 for 100 ml · about a quarter of Mystic Experience’s about $314
Angel BlushMugler · shares cashmere knit, vanilla and patchouli$195 for 100 ml · about half of Mystic Experience’s about $314
Black OpiumYSL · shares coffee, vanilla and patchouli$174 for 90 ml · about half of Mystic Experience’s about $314
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Matched by the notes each house names. A shared note is not a promise they smell alike.