Arabie is a deeply polarising one, splitting the crowd cleanly down the middle. For some, it's an enchanting voyage to an exotic spice bazaar. For others? A culinary catastrophe, smelling more like a Christmas cake or curry paste than a wearable fragrance.

Hijaz chases Serge Lutens' Arabie - the dense, syrupy dried-fruit-and-spice souk in a bottle. It captures the candied dates, clove and resin signature, but renders it flatter and sweeter, losing some of the original's over-the-top, layered complexity and projecting closer to the skin.