Fragrance houses

Ormonde Jayne

11 fragrances, mapped across five axes.

What the Ormonde Jayne range is made of

Across the 11 Ormonde Jayne fragrances Zenyra has mapped, the materials that recur most are musk (45%), vetiver (36%), amber (36%). 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 drier than the catalogue as a whole: sweetness averages 0.26 against 0.40 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

Ormonde Jayne releases variations on a theme. Measured as the average spread of its fragrances across all five axes, the range scores 0.090 — narrow. Someone who likes one Ormonde Jayne 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 2007.

Where Ormonde Jayne sits

Warmth0.40 vs 0.51 catalogue
Projection0.55 vs 0.51 catalogue
Risk0.38 vs 0.34 catalogue
Texture0.53 vs 0.48 catalogue
Sweetness0.26 vs 0.40 catalogue

Every Ormonde Jayne fragrance

These are the same five axes behind The Fragrance Taste Index, which maps all 5,308 fragrances. To find where your own taste sits, take the fragrance quiz.