Herod
Herod by Parfums de Marly is a masculine-leaning eau de parfum from 2012 in the luxury price tier. It opens with cinnamon and black pepper, moves into tobacco and osmanthus and dries down to vanilla, incense and cedarwood. Expect around 11 hours of wear, and it projects very strongly.
Notes, explained
Opening
- Cinnamon Sweet heat. Reads festive, sometimes to a fault.
- Black Pepper Dry and prickly. Gives a fragrance grip and a bit of bite.
Heart
- Tobacco Sweet, dried and honeyed. Nothing like a cigarette.
- Osmanthus Apricot-and-leather floral. Unusual, warm and very wearable.
Dry-down
- Vanilla Sweet, creamy and warm. The most comforting note in perfumery.
- Incense Smoky, dry and meditative. Adds gravity to anything.
- Cedarwood Dry, pencil-shaving woodiness. Clean and structural.
Smells like this
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