Intense Red Tobacco

In everyday terms

Pear, cinnamon and saffron over tobacco and leather with vanilla, guaiac and musk.

Pear

Juicy, sweet and slightly green pear

Cinnamon

Warm, sweet spice, like cinnamon in buns or zobo

Nutmeg

Warm spice, like ehuru (calabash nutmeg) in pepper soup

Incense

Smoky and spiritual, like church incense at Mass

Saffron

Warm and honey-like, a bit like the inside of a brand-new leather bag

Agarwood

Deep, smoky oud, like the turare and bakhoor burned in Hausa homes during Sallah

Tobacco

Sweet, dried tobacco leaves, like an unlit cigar

Leather

Rich and smoky, like new leather shoes from Aba

Jasmine

The sweet white “lady of the night” flowers on compound fences

Patchouli

Earthy and dark, like damp soil in a forest

Vetiver

Earthy, rooty grass, like wet soil after rain

Musk

How it wears

In Nigerian heat, most perfumes project more but fade faster. Spray some on your clothes to make it last longer.