Oriental Resinous · 2010
Notes carried over from an earlier source and not independently checked.
These describe how the fragrance is generally reported to behave. Skin chemistry, weather and how much you apply all change it, so your own experience may differ.
Modelled profile
Wormwood and cardamom over a dark rose, deepening into incense, leather, styrax and oakmoss. A brooding spiced chypre, smoky and resinous, the florals threaded through shadow.

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On Zenyra's five taste axes, Memoir Woman carries across a room and announces itself, and feels thick in the air, saturated and physically there.
Modelled profile. This profile is derived from the evidence currently available and may be refined over time.
Memoir Woman reads warm and close to the skin, in amber and resin territory. That is 77th percentile for warmth across 5,283 scored fragrances.
Memoir Woman carries across a room and announces itself. That is among the highest in the catalogue for projection across 5,283 scored fragrances.
Memoir Woman sits mid-range on risk, neither a clear crowd-pleaser nor clearly divisive on the evidence available. That is among the highest in the catalogue for risk across 5,283 scored fragrances.
Memoir Woman feels thick in the air, saturated and physically there. That is 80th percentile for texture across 5,283 scored fragrances.
Memoir Woman keeps the sweetness pared back, dry and austere. That is 30th percentile for sweetness across 5,283 scored fragrances.
Projection, risk and texture describe how a fragrance behaves in a room and on skin. Where wear reports are thin, those scores rest near the middle by design, so a mid-range reading here is a statement about the evidence as much as about the scent. Warmth and sweetness are derived from composition and do not carry that caveat.
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