Fragrance houses

Lush

3 fragrances, mapped across five axes.

What the Lush range is made of

67% of the 3 Lush fragrances Zenyra has mapped contain patchouli. A house can be described by what it returns to, and Lush returns to patchouli 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 0.67 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

Lush covers ground. The average spread across its range is 0.174 — wide enough that liking one Lush 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 1995, which means most of what defines this house was made before the reformulations of the 2000s.

Where Lush sits

Warmth0.67 vs 0.51 catalogue
Projection0.58 vs 0.51 catalogue
Risk0.47 vs 0.34 catalogue
Texture0.52 vs 0.48 catalogue
Sweetness0.42 vs 0.40 catalogue

Every Lush fragrance

These are the same five axes behind The Fragrance Taste Index, which maps all 5,323 fragrances. To find where your own taste sits, take the fragrance quiz.