Bortnikoff
3 fragrances, mapped across five axes.
What the Bortnikoff range is made of
67% of the 3 Bortnikoff fragrances Zenyra has mapped contain oud. A house can be described by what it returns to, and Bortnikoff returns to oud more than to anything else — across 3 releases that is a position rather than a coincidence.
On Zenyra's five axes the house reads warmer than the catalogue as a whole: warmth averages 0.83 against 0.51 across all mapped fragrances. That is a wide margin, and it is the clearest thing the data says about this house.
One idea, or many
Bortnikoff releases variations on a theme. Measured as the average spread of its fragrances across all five axes, the range scores 0.096 — narrow. Someone who likes one Bortnikoff fragrance is unusually likely to like the next, and someone who dislikes one probably will not find the exception further down the range.
The median release year across the mapped range is 2019, which places this house firmly in the current era of perfumery rather than the archive.
Where Bortnikoff sits
Every Bortnikoff fragrance
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