Smoky fragrances

Scents that recall smoke, burnt wood or tar.

Scentorian assigns these categories for browsing. Fragrances can belong to several families; the house may describe them differently.

26 fragrances

A City on Fire Eau de Parfum

Imaginary Authors — A struck match, sulphur and all, and then the bonfire: wearers describe smoke that gets into hair and clothes, with a hint of dark berries if you go looking.

African Rooibos Eau de Parfum

Chris Collins — Not the cool green tea most tea fragrances chase: owners describe warm red-bush rooibos with black pepper and cardamom, drying down to cedar and a faint maple-like sweetness.

Arabie Eau de Parfum

Serge Lutens — Dense dried fruit and cumin, with a dark, sticky sweetness and savoury spice.

Black Afgano Extrait de Parfum

Nasomatto — Dense resins and dark woods, with impressions of incense, tobacco and burnt coffee.

Blackbird Parfum

Olympic Orchids — Ripe blackberry with dry grass, fir balsam and resinous cedar.

BOSS Bottled Elixir

Hugo Boss — Incense and cardamom rise first, smoky and dark, before cedar, patchouli and a resinous sweetness close in; one owner ends on something like dark chocolate.

Breath of God Perfume

Lush — Two perfumes in one bottle, and wearers can feel the seam: cold air, melon and citrus drifting over temple smoke and sandalwood.

Encelade

Marc-Antoine Barrois — Sour rhubarb, damp earth and leather with a strong green character, which some wearers liken to tomato leaf, compost or burnt matches.

Encre Noire Eau de Toilette

Lalique — Here cypress and vetiver come across as damp earth, roots, bark and smoke, above softer wood and musk, though some catch a cleaner, almost minty green.

Fantomas Extrait de Parfum

Nasomatto — Melon candy on hot asphalt: wearers describe watermelon and caramel against rubber, vinyl and gunpowder smoke, like an inflatable pool toy left out in the sun.

Fantosmia Eau de Parfum

Jorum Studio — Dense and slightly medicinal to many wearers, drawing closer as it settles: pepper, pimento and fennel, green shiso and mate, over tobacco and leather..

Hwyl

Aesop — Dry thyme and elemi, wood dust and incense.

Jasmin et Cigarette Eau de Parfum

Etat Libre d'Orange — In the accounts of those who wear it: rich jasmine and cold tobacco ash, a dry turmeric accent, and a little tonka sweetness under the smoky floral..

Lampblack Eau de Parfum

FZOTIC — Bitter grapefruit and orange against black pepper and an inky nagarmotha accord.

Like This Eau de Parfum

Etat Libre d'Orange — Pumpkin and ginger as warm, savoury vegetables and spice, with bright tangerine at the start.

Zoologist — Dust, honey and smoke: wearers describe an old wardrobe opened after years, powdery flowers and burnt honey, once a loud spice-cabinet opening has passed, which some read as medicinal or metallic.

Passage d'Enfer

L'Artisan Parfumeur — Cool incense and white lily with an impression of stone.

Replica Jazz Club Eau de Toilette

Maison Margiela — Rum, tobacco and vanilla, blended smooth: boozy and warm, with a coconut edge that one reviewer reads as tropical rather than dark.

Rouge Eau de Parfum

Comme des Garçons — Ginger and pink pepper with earthy, faintly sweet beetroot; later on, wearers say, incense and cistus turn it dry and resinous..

Squid Extrait de Parfum

Zoologist — The sea at night rather than the beach by day: ink, salt and incense over a sweet, boozy amber, which one wearer who normally avoids blue-bottle aquatics rates as the real thing.

Sweet Leaf Eau de Parfum

Room 1015 — Grapefruit, eucalyptus and a green, resinous cannabis accord, with a sharp turpentine accent; wearers find wood and patchouli softening it later..

Tabu Eau de Cologne

Dana — Spice, smoke and patchouli settling into a dusty, grown-up powder: soft as baby powder on some skins, loud, dry and faintly dirty on others, with an animal streak that one reviewer could not wait to shower off.

Tom Yum Eau de Parfum

Parfum Prissana — Lime leaf, lemongrass and galangal with jasmine and coriander: the vivid herbal-citrus opening gives way to a woody patchouli drydown, with generally moderate wear, reviewers say..

Tonnerre Eau de Parfum

BeauFort London — Gunpowder, brandy and charred wood after a brief citrus opening, as wearers tell it, with birch tar adding a smoked-meat impression before it settles toward salt and ash..

Unknown Pleasures Eau de Parfum

Kerosene — Earl Grey and lemon show early, reviewers notice, then a warmer, sweeter pastry of caramel, vanilla and waffle cone takes over..

Woodcut Parfum

Olympic Orchids — Fresh-cut lumber, and specifically so: wearers describe sawn boards, sap, bark and the hot-metal smell of a saw, like a lumber yard or the wood aisle of a hardware store.