Bond No. 9 Manhattan Eau de Parfum The greatest city in the world, in a single fragrance. Manhattan by Bond No. 9 is a bold, deeply opulent oriental vanilla fragrance launched in 2012 — the most ambitious, most complex, and most fully realised fragrance in the entire Bond No. 9 collection, and a fragrance that attempts — and achieves — something that no other fragrance has ever attempted: to capture the totality of Manhattan in a single bottle. Not a neighbourhood. Not a street. Not a moment. Manhattan itself — all of it — its energy and its elegance, its warmth and its darkness, its sweetness and its spice, its extraordinary complexity and its extraordinary beauty. Built around twenty ingredients across three phases, Manhattan is a fragrance of almost overwhelming ambition and almost overwhelming beauty — a composition that reveals new facets with every hour of wear and that rewards the most attentive and the most adventurous of fragrance lovers. It opens with a vivid, immediately arresting combination of peach, nutmeg, saffron, flowers, coriander, and bergamot — warm, slightly spiced, and deeply complex. Saffron — one of the world’s most precious and most expensive spices — gives the opening an immediate sense of luxury and rarity; coriander a warm, slightly citrusy aromatic depth; and peach a lush, slightly tropical sweetness that makes the opening feel simultaneously bold and deeply inviting. The heart is the fragrance’s most extraordinary and most unforgettable moment: plum, gingerbread, chocolate, honey, beeswax, Moroccan jasmine, Indian jasmine, and immortelle — eight notes of breathtaking complexity. Gingerbread and chocolate give the heart a warm, slightly gourmand sweetness that is simultaneously comforting and deeply sophisticated; beeswax adds a warm, slightly animalic, deeply natural sweetness; and immortelle — the golden everlasting flower of the Mediterranean, with its extraordinary curry-like, slightly maple-syrup character — is the heart’s most distinctive and most unforgettable note. The dry-down is the fragrance’s most commanding achievement: agarwood (oud), patchouli, vanilla, labdanum, sandalwood, musk, cashmere wood, suede, and broom — nine base notes of extraordinary depth and presence — creating a warm, dark, deeply enveloping base of rare, enduring beauty. Fragrance Pyramid Top Notes: Peach, Nutmeg, Saffron, Flowers, Coriander, Bergamot Heart Notes: Plum, Gingerbread, Chocolate, Honey, Beeswax, Moroccan Jasmine, Indian Jasmine, Immortelle Base Notes: Agarwood (Oud), Patchouli, Vanilla, Labdanum, Sandalwood, Musk, Cashmere Wood, Suede, Broom Key Features Unisex oriental vanilla fragrance — bold, opulent, and deeply complex From Bond No. 9 — the most ambitious and most complex fragrance in the collection, named for the greatest city in the world Twenty-ingredient composition — including immortelle, beeswax, gingerbread, cashmere wood, and suede alongside oud and saffron 100ml / 3.4 oz Eau de Parfum Manhattan is for those who are ready for the most extraordinary fragrance experience in the Bond No. 9 collection — and who understand that the greatest things always reward those who give them their full attention.
