Fragrance houses

Guerlain

274 fragrances, mapped across five axes.

What the Guerlain range is made of

57% of the 274 Guerlain fragrances Zenyra has mapped contain bergamot. A house can be described by what it returns to, and Guerlain returns to bergamot more than to anything else — across 274 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 0.20 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

Guerlain covers ground. The average spread across its range is 0.152 — wide enough that liking one Guerlain 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 2012.

Where Guerlain sits

Warmth0.42 vs 0.49 catalogue
Projection0.40 vs 0.51 catalogue
Risk0.20 vs 0.34 catalogue
Texture0.40 vs 0.48 catalogue
Sweetness0.42 vs 0.40 catalogue

Every Guerlain 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.