Fragrance houses

Imaginary Authors

12 fragrances, mapped across five axes.

What the Imaginary Authors range is made of

Across the 12 Imaginary Authors fragrances Zenyra has mapped, the materials that recur most are vanilla (25%), cream (17%), iris (17%). No single note dominates, which is itself a choice — this is a house that works across a palette rather than around a signature material.

On Zenyra's five axes the house reads bolder than the catalogue as a whole: risk averages 0.40 against 0.34 across all mapped fragrances. The margin is modest — this is a house closer to the centre of taste than to any edge of it.

One idea, or many

Imaginary Authors covers ground. The average spread across its range is 0.167 — wide enough that liking one Imaginary Authors 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 2014.

Where Imaginary Authors sits

Warmth0.55 vs 0.49 catalogue
Projection0.54 vs 0.51 catalogue
Risk0.40 vs 0.34 catalogue
Texture0.49 vs 0.48 catalogue
Sweetness0.44 vs 0.40 catalogue

Every Imaginary Authors 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.