Xerjoff · 2013

Erba Pura

Premium$$$, 3 of 5
Xerjoff asks $232 for 100 ml
50 ml$157
100 ml$232

VersionEau de Parfum

A burst of orange, lemon and bergamot with sweet mixed fruit over vanilla, amber and white musk.

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The drawn Erba Pura bottle

Top noteswhen you spray it

Heartas it settles

Dry-downwhat stays

Erba Pura’s scent picture, a draft: lemon, bergamot, sweet orange, mediterranean fruit, amber, vanilla (vanillin) drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

Top noteswhen you spray it

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

Heartas it settles

Erba Pura, heart: Mediterranean fruit

Dry-downwhat stays

Erba Pura, dry-down: Amber, Vanilla (vanillin), White musk (Galaxolide), Iso E Super (pencil shavings on velvet), Coumarin (new-mown hay)

What’s inside it

What the label names

30 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 florals2 woods2 sweet2 spices1 musks1 powder

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

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Wearers say

Smells like it

For more

Aventus for HerCreed · Some of its own wearers call Erba Pura a cheaper copy of it$460 for 75 ml

“To me it just smells exactly like Erba pura from xerjoff”

Reddit comment, r/fragrance, 2023 · 4 votes

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

Our match of the notes

Shares its notes

Donna Born in Roma Yellow DreamValentino · shares lemon, bergamot, vanilla and clean linen$180 for 100 ml
Erba GoldXerjoff · shares lemon, bergamot, sweet orange and vanilla$294 for 100 ml
Como MoiselleMaison Alhambra · shares bergamot, sweet orange, vanilla and clean linen$22 for 100 ml · about a tenth of Erba Pura’s $232
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Matched by the notes each house names. A shared note is not a promise they smell alike.