Ample

Ample is Perfume Parlour's budget reading of Xerjoff Richwood, the 2010 Jacques Flori composition from Xerjoff's Shooting Stars collection that became one of the Italian niche house's signature unisex woody-balsamic-powdery references. PP's pyramid mirrors the original community pyramid: a tangerine-grapefruit-bergamot triple-citrus opening, a rose-blackcurrant heart, and a base built on patchouli, sandalwood, vanilla, labdanum, and musk. The first hour is the strongest match: tangerine reads juicy and slightly sweet, grapefruit lifts the citrus shoulder with a brighter zest, and bergamot adds the canonical polished citrus polish. By the heart the rose comes forward as the canonical Richwood signature - a clean, slightly dark rose absolute rather than a girlish soliflore - with blackcurrant adding a faint tart-fruity edge that gives the composition its distinctive shoulder. The dry-down trades on patchouli as the principal anchor, with sandalwood adding creamy woody depth, vanilla a soft sweet polish, labdanum the resinous-balsamic warmth that gives Richwood its luxury-niche character, and musk a quiet skin-scent finish. Performance is the budget compromise: five to seven hours of moderate sillage rather than the eight-to-ten hours wearers report on the Xerjoff bottle. The character is sophisticated unisex woody-balsamic-powdery with an autumn-winter lean; seasons skew cooler, and the natural settings are date, formal evening, and dinner wear. The honest caveat: at fifty millilitres for under twenty pounds the dupe's rose-patchouli-labdanum structure is cleaner and shorter-lasting than the Xerjoff original, which trades on the meticulous niche-house balance and a long sandalwood-vanilla-labdanum tail as a key part of the appeal. For wearers curious about Xerjoff's Shooting Stars signature before committing to a bottle in the two-hundred-pound band, this is a faithful enough sketch. Sits next to other budget rose-patchouli-amber dupes (Mancera Roses Vanille dupes, Maison Francis Kurkdjian Grand Soir dupes) in the dupe-house neighbourhood, while the original sits with Xerjoff Erba Pura, Maison Francis Kurkdjian Grand Soir, and Tom Ford Tobacco Vanille in the modern niche woody-balsamic-feminine-leaning conversation.