Master Cedar

Master Cedar is the brand's cool, modern wood, a sophisticated scent with a contemporary edge that the brand calls confident and effortlessly composed. It began as a character fragrance for a stage role and is sold as an eau de parfum in 30 and 150 ml. Elemi, pimento and bay open it with a modern vibrancy, amplified by vetiver, cedar, labdanum and frankincense, and myrrh, oud and amber soften the base. Cedar is the point: wearers call it a very classy cedar, a fresh, elegant cologne and, in one view, the best cedar-centered scent they have met. One reviewer finds the unadorned cedar powerful yet an aura around the wearer rather than a surge, bound to resins with very little sweetness. Wear is the divided point. The few longevity votes spread across weak to eternal, one wearer expects better performance for the price, and a statement calls the sillage pale. Autumn leads the season votes, and day and night votes are level. It is listed for men and filed under men's perfume at a UK stockist, though a reviewer would call it unisex and the gender hardly matters to a cedar lover. It suits anyone who likes a clean, resinous cedar rather than a sweet or smoky one.