Xerjoff

Erba Gold

Premium$$$, 3 of 5
Xerjoff asks $294 for 100 ml
50 ml$185
100 ml$294

The houseUnisex

VersionEau de Parfum

Lemon, orange and ginger over juicy melon, pear and green apple spiced with cardamom, settling onto vanilla, amber and musk.

The drawn Erba Gold bottle

Top noteswhen you spray it

Heartas it settles

Dry-downwhat stays

Erba Gold’s scent picture, a draft: lemon, sweet orange, bergamot, ginger, clove, apple drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

Top noteswhen you spray it

Erba Gold, top notes: Lemon, Sweet orange, Bergamot, Ginger, Bitter orange, Carvone (spearmint)

Heartas it settles

Erba Gold, heart: Clove, Apple, Cardamom, Melon, Pear, Cinnamon

Dry-downwhat stays

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

What’s inside it

What the label names

33 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.

7 citrus5 herbs & lavender10 florals4 woods2 sweet2 spices2 musks1 powder

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

Hawas For HimRasasi · shares lemon, bergamot, apple, cardamom and 2 moreabout $48 for 100 ml · about a fifth of Erba Gold’s $294
Odyssey French KissArmaf · shares lemon, bergamot, apple, pear and 2 more$55 for 100 ml · about a fifth of Erba Gold’s $294
Lyric WomanAmouage · shares bergamot, ginger, cardamom, vanilla and 2 more$395 for 100 ml
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Matched by the notes each house names. A shared note is not a promise they smell alike.