Aenotus

Puredistance · Parfum / Extrait · 2019

≈ $325 · 60ml · approx. retail

Aenotus, launched in March 2019 as founder Jan Ewoud Vos's personal signature scent, is a bright citrus composition built at an unusually high 48% concentration to give its volatile top notes lasting power. A sparkling lemon-yuzu-mandarin opening settles into a green petitgrain-mint heart and a mossy, musky base. It is part of the current Magnificent XII Collection.

The scent

Top notes

The opening · first 15 minutes

Heart notes

The core · the next few hours

Base notes

The dry-down · what lingers

Best for

SpringSummerDailyOffice

Perfumer

Antoine Lie

French · 27 in collection

Antoine Lie is a French perfumer, born in Strasbourg, who spent nearly three decades at Givaudan, IFF, and Takasago before going independent in 2018 to found ALOE in Paris. He is equally at home with commercial blockbusters and provocative avant-garde niche creations.

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