Light Blue Pour Homme is a fresh citrus-musk; its listed ingredients are Sicilian mandarin, ‘frozen' grapefruit peel, bergamot, juniper, rosemary, Szechuan pepper, rosewood, ‘musk wood', incense and oak moss. Before smelling it, three of Light Blue's notes caught my attention: mandarin, rosewood (the King of Woods to me) and incense, but my imagination created a fragrance very different from Light Blue Pour Homme's actual synthetic, and instantly recognizable, scent.

Light Blue Pour Homme begins with zippy citrus (accent on the ‘frozen' grapefruit peel). In this well-blended fragrance, one...