Mandala

Mandala, composed by Christian Carbonnel for Masque Milano in 2017, is a spiced incense with a mossy, green edge. Spice is what everyone notices; most also find it resinous and amber-like, and about half describe it as green or woody.

The notes are listed together. Cardamom, cloves, cinnamon and nutmeg give a warm, church-spice opening, sharp and sweet at once. Angelica adds a green, slightly musky, celery-like note, and oakmoss a bitter, forest-floor dryness, which together account for the green impression. Frankincense and myrrh are the core, dry, lemony smoke and bitter, balsamic resin, deepened by labdanum for a sweet, leathery warmth. Cedar and sandalwood provide the woody frame, and ambergris a salty, skin-like finish.

Mandala is worn by anyone. By character it is an autumn and winter fragrance for evenings and quiet moments, contemplative and dense, and it suits people who like incense in the liturgical style with spice and moss rather than sweetness.

Mandala — unisex fragrance by Masque Milano (released 2017). Notes: Ambergris, Angelica, Cardamom, Cedar, Cinnamon, Cloves, Incense, Labdanum, Myrrh, Nutmeg, Oakmoss, Olibanum, Olibanum (Frankincense), Sandalwood. — Parfica open fragrance database