Xerjoff
Xerjoff
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Bergamot and lemon briefly lift a lavender note that's been drowned in thick, resinous honey—there's an almost medicinal quality to this opening, herbal and sweet in equal measure. Cinnamon prickles at the edges, warming everything before the jasmine sambac makes its presence known, heady and slightly indolic beneath the golden aromatics.
The honey-lavender accord settles into something rounder as cashmeran's woody musk and the full bloom of jasmine sambac add depth and a subtle powderiness. Cinnamon remains threaded throughout, not aggressive but persistently warm, whilst the tobacco leaf begins its slow emergence—smooth, sweet-cured, and utterly enveloping. This is Naxos at its most balanced, still sweet but now grounded by those musky, woody undertones that prevent it from becoming saccharine.
Vanilla and tonka bean meld with the tobacco into a skin-close sweetness that's velvety and soft, still punctuated by ghostly traces of lavender and honey. The whole composition takes on a powdery, almost coumarinic quality, warm and embracing without the projection of the opening hours. It's comfort itself, a sweet tobacco haze that lingers far longer than expected, intimate but unmistakably luxurious.
Naxos is Xerjoff's opulent love letter to honeyed tobacco, where the marriage of lavender and honey creates something altogether more decadent than either ingredient suggests. The opening lavender isn't the clean, barbershop sort—it's steeped in citrus oils and immediately swamped by a golden, almost medicinal honey that reads as propolis-rich and dense. This is where Naxos deviates from the aromatic fougère you might expect: cinnamon and cashmeran inject a woody, musky warmth that keeps the sweetness from turning cloying, whilst jasmine sambac threads through with its own heady, indolic sweetness. The effect is simultaneously aromatic and gourmand, like a tobacco shop adjacent to a patisserie, their scents mingling through an open door.
The tobacco at Naxos's core is smooth and slightly sweet, more pipe tobacco than ashtray, bolstered by vanilla and tonka that lend a rounded, almost edible quality without tipping into dessert territory. There's a persistent lavender-honey accord throughout that gives this fragrance its signature—imagine lavender buds preserved in amber-coloured honey, then dusted with cinnamon bark. It's utterly enveloping, with a sillage that announces itself before you enter a room.
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