Name that aroma: Putting TOGA's Whiskey Caramelise perfume to the test

If modern perfumes are now supposed to speak for mood and seduction, what does a fragrance say when it's called "Solar Donkey Power"? What about "Smell"?

These are two of the perfumes created in collaboration with the Six Scents project, bringing fashion designers and master perfumers together for limited releases of fragrances. A portion of proceeds go to the Ecologically-friendly Pro Natura charity.

Of the six, I was most curious about Whiskey Caramélisé from Tokyo’s own designer, Yasuko Furuta of TOGA. A test spritz on the wrist was at first sweet and then quickly gave way to a musk that dissipated -- leaving only a faint trail. It was like the smell of the candy dish on my grandfather’s bed-side table.

At the Tokyo launch party, Furuta told us, "If my perfume were an action it would be stumbling drunk." She claims to be a whiskey aficionado.

The Whiskey Caramélisé perfume was the best of the bunch, and it proved so popular that the test bottle had disappeared by the end of the night. Perhaps another inebriated aficionado planned to stock their minibar with it.

Whiskey Caramélisé is available at RESTIR Tokyo Midtown, Akasaka 9-7-4, Minato-ku, tel. 03 5413 3708, www.restir.com/english/midtown/