This one is a real head-scratcher and a proper love-it-or-hate-it affair. Expect beast-mode performance but prepare for it to divide opinion faster than a politician's promise. It's bold, it's unique, and it might just smell like grape-flavoured detergent.

A budget interpretation of Ex Nihilo's French Affair. The sensual rose-and-patchouli heart over mossy green woods is the song of the original, and this dupe captures that modern chypre swagger, though it reads cleaner and less mossy-sophisticated, with the oakmoss and vetiver depth softened.