My World Eau de Parfum

Halloween My World Eau de Parfum is the newest thing this house has put out, dating from 2025, and it is also the driest and least sweet of its recent releases.

Ginger opens it with a prickling heat, cardamom follows cool and faintly soapy, and bergamot lifts the pair into something bright for the first few minutes. It is a spiced start rather than a fruity one, and it signals straight away that this is not another dessert. The middle is where the thinking shows. Juniper berry brings a resinous, gin like coolness, black pepper adds a dry crackle, clary sage is herbal and slightly nutty, and orange blossom is the only soft thing in there, supplying a clean honeyed brightness that keeps the whole arrangement from turning austere. Four materials pulling in different directions and somehow agreeing.

Then it lands somewhere warm. Praline gives a nutty caramelised sweetness, which is the single concession to sugar in the entire composition, while cashmeran provides that warm, faintly dusty and slightly musky modern finish and vetiver cuts across both with a dry rooty bitterness. The result is a drydown that is comfortable without being soft. Ten materials, eau de parfum strength, and seven or eight hours of wear from two sprays with steady rather than aggressive projection. It reads as unisex with a lean towards men. Autumn, winter, evenings and the office in cold weather all suit it.

The line is Spanish, created for the Madrid couturier Jesus del Pozo, whose shop opened in 1974 and who died in 2011. Perfumes y Diseno has built the fragrances since 1992, starting with Duende, and eventually bought the fashion business as well. Halloween is the best known part of the whole portfolio, alongside the Nightology family.