Kilian Paris · 2023 · Mathieu Nardin

Smoking Hot

Top luxury$$$$$, 5 of 5

VersionEau de Parfum

Sweet apple hookah smoke and warm cinnamon over Kentucky tobacco, drying down to balsamic vanilla, patchouli and oakmoss.

The drawn Smoking Hot bottle

Top noteswhen you spray it

Heartas it settles

Dry-downwhat stays

Smoking Hot’s scent picture, a draft: hookah flavor, cinnamon, immortelle, vanilla, patchouli, oakmoss drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

Top noteswhen you spray it

Smoking Hot, top notes: Hookah flavor, Cinnamon

Heartas it settles

Smoking Hot, heart: Immortelle, Apple

Dry-downwhat stays

Smoking Hot, dry-down: Vanilla, Patchouli, Oakmoss, Coumarin (new-mown hay)

What’s inside it

What the label names

6 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 & resins2 spices

Citrus1

Herbs & lavender1

Amber & resins1

5 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

9 PMAfnan · shares cinnamon, vanilla, patchouli and apple$50 for 100 ml · about a tenth of Smoking Hot’s $295
Uomo Born in Roma Coral FantasyValentino · shares tobacco, cinnamon, patchouli and apple$138 for 100 ml · about a quarter of Smoking Hot’s $295
CentaurusCreed · shares tobacco, cinnamon, vanilla and patchouli$560 for 100 ml · about the same as Smoking Hot’s $295
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Matched by the notes each house names. A shared note is not a promise they smell alike.