Spiced Rum, Lime & Guaiac Wood

Spiced Rum, Lime & Guaiac Wood is the house's connoisseur scent, pictured as a naval officer on deck with a glass of spiced rum and lime, breathing the sun-bleached planks of his ship. It opens with the intense aroma of rum, lime and lemon zest and the radiant spiciness of nutmeg and pepper. The heart is deep and sensual: tuberose, iris and a vintage leather. The base is guaiac wood, with its smoky, leathery character, cedar, golden amber, vanilla pod and musk, with tonka bean and benzoin in the longer note list. Opinion is short and mixed in tone. One wearer finds a dry, sweet, woody scent that lasts and lasts once the spiced rum fades, and calls it seductive; another would happily wear it all winter. A blunter wearer says it smells like a dark, men's-style body wash: not a bad smell, but not a complicated one. Votes put wear time and trail at moderate and cover every season, with day and night use. The house calls the style masculine and sells it as unisex or masculine. It is best in autumn and winter, for evenings out and relaxed dress-up, and a good match for anyone who likes a warm, boozy and smoky fragrance without much fuss. It is made by hand in the UK by a small London house.