Layering matches for

Jo Malone Wood Sage & Sea Salt

Every fragrance in the catalogue is evaluated against this one on its own merits. Each answer is a trajectory over a wear day, not a single score, because two sprays are two films on skin with different evaporation curves rather than one blend.

Recommended

Both fragrances stay present through the day, something in the pair actively works, and no material is pushed far enough past its dose threshold to damage the blend. Any threshold that is crossed at all is still listed on the card.

Diptyque

Philosykos

Recommended
  • citrus peel lifts dry cedar and keeps it from reading dusty
  • milky fruit and cut stem are the two halves of a fig
Spray first Jo Malone Wood Sage & Sea Salt
Spray second Diptyque Philosykos

Ratio: 1 spray each. Neither is loud enough to need holding back.

How it moves over the day

  1. 10 minutes Both, roughly even

    Both openings are still present and roughly balanced.

    cut-stem (flipped) dry-amberwood milky-fruit mineral-salt
  2. 1 hour Both, roughly even

    Both openings are still present and roughly balanced.

    dry-amberwood cut-stem (flipped) milky-fruit pencil-wood
  3. 3 hours Both, roughly even

    Both are still contributing in similar measure.

    dry-amberwood pencil-wood skin-musk milky-fruit
  4. 6 hours Both, roughly even

    Both are still contributing in similar measure.

    dry-amberwood pencil-wood skin-musk creamy-wood

Dose thresholds crossed

  • cis-3-hexenol — caused by layering. Combined load 0.55 against a threshold of 0.45. Above this it reads acrid metallic grass, nauseating green.

Shared materials: iso e super, cedarwood, cis-3-hexenol.

Rests on at least one placeholder material value. Treat this verdict as weak.

Workable with care

These hold together, but something about them needs watching. The caveat is stated on each.

Diptyque

Eau Rose

Workable with care
  • amber-woods bury a citrus opening within the first hour, so the citrus is decoration rather than a layer
Spray first Jo Malone Wood Sage & Sea Salt
Spray second Diptyque Eau Rose

Ratio: 1 spray of Diptyque Eau Rose to 2 sprays of Jo Malone Wood Sage & Sea Salt.

How it moves over the day

  1. 10 minutes Diptyque Eau Rose

    Diptyque Eau Rose is ahead but Jo Malone Wood Sage & Sea Salt is still readable.

    rose-petal skin-musk dry-amberwood sulfurous-bite
  2. 1 hour Diptyque Eau Rose

    Diptyque Eau Rose is ahead but Jo Malone Wood Sage & Sea Salt is still readable.

    rose-petal skin-musk dry-amberwood mineral-salt
  3. 3 hours Both, roughly even

    Both are still contributing in similar measure.

    skin-musk rose-petal dry-amberwood mineral-salt
  4. 6 hours Both, roughly even

    Both are still contributing in similar measure.

    skin-musk dry-amberwood rose-petal pencil-wood

Shared materials: galaxolide, cis-3-hexenol.

Rests on at least one placeholder material value. Treat this verdict as weak.

Dior

Sauvage

Workable with care
  • amber-woods bury a citrus opening within the first hour, so the citrus is decoration rather than a layer
  • amber-woods overwrite the mineral-salt effect entirely
Spray first Jo Malone Wood Sage & Sea Salt
Spray second Dior Sauvage

Ratio: 1 spray of Dior Sauvage to 2 sprays of Jo Malone Wood Sage & Sea Salt.

How it moves over the day

  1. 10 minutes Dior Sauvage

    Dior Sauvage is ahead but Jo Malone Wood Sage & Sea Salt is still readable.

    dry-amberwood (flipped) peppery-bite herbal-cool skin-musk
  2. 1 hour Dior Sauvage

    Dior Sauvage is ahead but Jo Malone Wood Sage & Sea Salt is still readable.

    dry-amberwood (flipped) skin-musk herbal-cool peppery-bite
  3. 3 hours Dior Sauvage

    Dior Sauvage is ahead but Jo Malone Wood Sage & Sea Salt is still readable.

    dry-amberwood (flipped) skin-musk pencil-wood herbal-cool
  4. 6 hours Dior Sauvage

    Dior Sauvage is ahead but Jo Malone Wood Sage & Sea Salt is still readable.

    dry-amberwood (flipped) skin-musk pencil-wood herbal-cool

Dose thresholds crossed

  • ambroxan — made worse by layering. Combined load 0.86 against a threshold of 0.35. Above this it reads metallic salt-dry, throat-catching, flattens everything beside it.

Shared materials: galaxolide, ambroxan, iso e super, cedarwood.

Rests on at least one placeholder material value. Treat this verdict as weak.

Not recommended

Listed with the reason, because a rejection you cannot inspect is indistinguishable from a bug.