Nefertiti

The interplay between the green, slightly astringent cannabis note and the lush orchid leaf is where this fragrance makes its real move. Most smoky florals either lean heavily into the smoke or let the florals run sweet, and most compositions that feature incense bury it until the dry down. Nefertiti refuses that restraint. The cannabis arrives with an herbal vibrancy that cuts through the expected sweetness, and the orchid leaf doesn't wait quietly in the background, it arrives alongside, adding a dewy green dimension before the heart notes fully establish themselves.

The evolution

The opening is all green and alive, cannabis and orchid leaf projecting with an herbal immediacy that cuts through expectation, not sweet, not syrupy, just bracing and present. Thirty minutes in, the incense arrives and the composition shifts, it gets quieter and more interesting simultaneously. The cannabis doesn't disappear so much as it integrates, folding into the smoke rather than fading out. That's the phase worth watching: when the expected linearity never quite materializes, replaced instead by something richer and more layered. By hour three, the honey enters and the agarwood becomes the more noticeable presence, not loud, not projecting far, but warm and intimate, close to the skin like warmth held under a coat. Five hours in, on most skin types, what remains is the agarwood and vetiver in their most honest form, with immortelle and musk lingering softly. The cannabis is gone.