Eclipse

Eclipse is a warm-spicy oriental, and the previous database write of it as a white-floral gourmand with vanilla and caramel was a complete misread. The community accord profile is unambiguous: cinnamon dominates, with warm spicy, leather and amber filling out the support behind it. The brand pyramid agrees note-for-note. The opening is led by cinnamon, with apple and violet softening its spice into a sweet cinnamon-bun register, though the bakery-spice character lands closer to artificial-sweet cinnamon than to fresh florals. The heart drops into leather, jasmine and oud, the leather doing most of the work and the jasmine and agarwood acting as quiet partners. The drydown is a warm enveloping base of tobacco, amber and patchouli, the same trio the brand emphasises as the perfect foundation. Saltworks' 25% parfum concentration combined with the heavy resinous-leather base gives it strong longevity, with full-room projection in cold air. It is an autumn and winter scent, a date or evening choice, with wearers comparing it directly to Xerjoff Alexandria II minus the oud complexity. It sits firmly in the modern warm-spicy-leather oriental neighbourhood (Mancera Cinnamon Vibes, Tom Ford Tobacco Vanille, the cinnamon-leather lane of the niche scene) and not anywhere near the floral-gourmand register the previous description suggested. For wearers who want a cinnamon-led oriental with leather depth.