Pour Un Homme de Caron Sport

The grapefruit and green mandarin detonate immediately, their sharp acids undercut by that herbaceous verbena-lavender combination that smells almost minty in its freshness. Within the first five minutes, you're aware of something deliberately angular and awake—no soft focus here, just crystalline citrus and green leaf volatiles colliding.

As the citrus begins its inevitable fade, the ginger and nutmeg push forward with surprising vigour, their spiced warmth wrapping around the Virginia cedar that's grown increasingly prominent. The fragrance becomes more textured now, less purely fresh and more complex—there's still that green thread running through everything, but it's now counterbalanced by subtle warmth that feels earned rather than applied.

The base notes finally achieve dominance as the ginger softens to a whisper. Benzoin and tonka create a faint amber sweetness, while the ambergris and white musk provide a clean, slightly animalic foundation that prevents the composition from becoming dessert-like. What remains is a quiet, skin-close embrace with lingering traces of green cedar and that peculiar spiced warmth—intimate rather than projective, subtle enough that you'll occasionally rediscover it hours later.