Fragrance houses

Chanel

58 fragrances, mapped across five axes.

What the Chanel range is made of

52% of the 58 Chanel fragrances Zenyra has mapped contain jasmine. A house can be described by what it returns to, and Chanel returns to jasmine more than to anything else — across 58 releases that is a position rather than a coincidence.

On Zenyra's five axes the house reads safer than the catalogue as a whole: risk averages 0.21 against 0.34 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

Chanel covers ground. The average spread across its range is 0.143 — wide enough that liking one Chanel fragrance tells you comparatively little about the rest. Houses like this reward exploring the catalogue rather than trusting the name.

The median release year across the mapped range is 2007.

Where Chanel sits

Warmth0.41 vs 0.49 catalogue
Projection0.48 vs 0.51 catalogue
Risk0.21 vs 0.34 catalogue
Texture0.45 vs 0.48 catalogue
Sweetness0.31 vs 0.40 catalogue

Every Chanel fragrance

These are the same five axes behind The Fragrance Taste Index, which maps all 5,320 fragrances. To find where your own taste sits, take the fragrance quiz.