Memo Paris · 2022 · Juliette Karagueuzoglou

Sherwood

Top luxury$$$$$, 5 of 5
Memo Paris asks $350 for 75 ml
75 ml$350

The houseUnisex

VersionEau de Parfum

Blackcurrant bud and pink pepper over orange blossom and rose, settling into creamy sandalwood, oakwood and soft woody musk.

Memo Paris says

You’ll smell Blackcurrant Bud absolute, Pink Pepper extract, Carrot Seed essence, Orange Flower absolute, rose essence, sandalwood essence, oakwood and Cashmeran.

More from Memo Paris’s description

It also mentions Damascena Rose, Upcycled oakwood, New Caledonian sandalwood oil and Cedar.

The house’s page

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The drawn Sherwood bottle

When you spray ittop notes

As it settlesheart notes

What staysdry-down notes

Sherwood’s scent picture, a draft: blackcurrant, pink pepper, carrot, bitter orange, rose, sandalwood drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

When you spray ittop notes

Sherwood, when you spray it: Blackcurrant, Pink pepper, Carrot

As it settlesheart notes

Sherwood, as it settles: Bitter orange, Rose

What staysdry-down notes

Sherwood, what stays: Sandalwood, Oak, Cashmeran (cashmere wood), Cedar, Coumarin (new-mown hay)

What’s inside it

What Memo Paris names

Blackcurrant Bud absolutePink Pepper extractCarrot Seed essenceOrange Flower absoluteRose essenceSandalwood essenceOakwoodCashmeran (cashmere wood)New Caledonian sandalwood oilCedar

What the label names

15 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 & lavender6 florals1 sweet1 amber & resins3 spices1 powder

Citrus2

LimoneneCitral

Herbs & lavender1

Linalool

Florals6

Benzyl salicylateHydroxycitronellalCitronellolGeraniol (rose)Cinnamyl alcoholFarnesol

Sweet1

Coumarin (new-mown hay)

Amber & resins1

Benzyl cinnamate

Spices3

EugenolCinnamalIsoeugenol

Powder1

alpha-Isomethyl ionone (powder puff)
7 more lines on the label, not there for the smell

Not for the smell7

AlcoholWaterOctinoxate (a UV filter)Octisalate (a UV filter)Avobenzone (a UV filter)Benzyl alcoholBenzyl benzoate

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Our match of the notes

Shares its notes

Opus XV King BlueAmouage · shares blackcurrant (cassis), pink pepper, sandalwood and oak$550 for 100 ml · about the same as Sherwood’s $350
Rose ExposedTom Ford · shares pink pepper, bitter orange (neroli, orange blossom, petitgrain), rose, sandalwood and 1 more$460 for 100 ml · about the same as Sherwood’s $350
MeanderAmouage · shares pink pepper, carrot, rose and sandalwood$395 for 100 ml · about the same as Sherwood’s $350
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La Vie Est Belle Iris AbsoluLancôme · shares blackcurrant (cassis), pink pepper, bitter orange (neroli, orange blossom, petitgrain), rose and 1 more$170 for 100 ml · about a third of Sherwood’s $350
EmpressaPenhaligon's · shares blackcurrant (cassis), pink pepper, bitter orange (neroli, orange blossom, petitgrain), rose and 1 more$330 for 100 ml
AniNishane · shares blackcurrant (cassis), pink pepper, rose, sandalwood and 1 more$375 for 100 ml · about the same as Sherwood’s $350
Spectre GhostFrench Avenue · shares blackcurrant (cassis), pink pepper, rose, sandalwood and 1 moreabout $41 for 80 ml · about a tenth of Sherwood’s $350
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Matched by the notes each house names. A shared note is not a promise they smell alike.