Fragrance houses

Penhaligon's

38 fragrances, mapped across five axes.

What the Penhaligon's range is made of

Across the 38 Penhaligon's fragrances Zenyra has mapped, the materials that recur most are rose (42%), amber (39%), vanilla (29%). 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 warmer than the catalogue as a whole: warmth averages 0.59 against 0.51 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

Penhaligon's covers ground. The average spread across its range is 0.147 — wide enough that liking one Penhaligon's 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 2016.

Where Penhaligon's sits

Warmth0.59 vs 0.51 catalogue
Projection0.44 vs 0.51 catalogue
Risk0.42 vs 0.34 catalogue
Texture0.51 vs 0.48 catalogue
Sweetness0.35 vs 0.40 catalogue

Every Penhaligon's 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.