Room 1015 · 2024 · Jérôme Di Marino

Wavechild

Premium$$$, 3 of 5

The houseUnisex

VersionEau de Parfum

Bright orange, mandarin and lemon over juicy watermelon and coconut, drying down to amber woods, cocoa and salty ambergris.

The drawn Wavechild bottle

Top noteswhen you spray it

Heartas it settles

Dry-downwhat stays

Wavechild’s scent picture, a draft: sweet orange, mandarin, lemon, watermelon, coconut, amber woods drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

Top noteswhen you spray it

Wavechild, top notes: Sweet orange, Mandarin, Lemon

Heartas it settles

Wavechild, heart: Watermelon, Coconut, Citronellol (rose)

Dry-downwhat stays

Wavechild, dry-down: Amber woods, Cacao, Ambergris, Iso E Super (pencil shavings on velvet), Galaxolide (musk)

What’s inside it

What the label names

18 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.

6 citrus3 herbs & lavender6 florals1 woods1 spices1 musks

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

Not for the smell2

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Wearers say

Smells like it

For less

L'ImpératriceDolce & Gabbana · Some of its own wearers say it smells like Wavechild$98 for 100 ml · about half of Wavechild’s about $179

Shoppers call a cheaper stand-in a dupe.

What wearers say, set beside the price each house asks. Noses differ.

Our match of the notes

Shares its notes

Tobacco ChocolatTom Ford · shares sweet orange, cacao and ambergris$460 for 100 ml
ImaginationLouis Vuitton · shares sweet orange, lemon and ambergris
KaafAhmed Al Maghribi · shares sweet orange, watermelon and ambergrisabout $35 for 100 ml · about a fifth of Wavechild’s about $179
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Matched by the notes each house names. A shared note is not a promise they smell alike.