Balenciaga
Pour Homme
Woody Aromatic · 1990 · Gerard Anthony
Longevity
Long
Sillage
Moderate
Occasion
Office/Daily
Seasonality
Summer
Cinnamon warms sandalwood and leather, with patchouli deepening the base. Rich and spicy with a smooth, slightly sweet finish. Classic and enveloping.
Taste Profile
The Anchor
The Dry Warmth
Warm enough to be felt. Dry enough to mean it.
There is warmth here but nothing soft about it. It arrives without apology and stays without asking. Substance over comfort, every time.
See your own Taste Map →How Pour Homme smells, measured
On Zenyra's five taste axes, Pour Homme keeps the sweetness pared back, dry and austere, and reads warm and close to the skin, in amber and resin territory.
Pour Homme reads warm and close to the skin, in amber and resin territory. That is 79th percentile for warmth across 5,322 scored fragrances.
Pour Homme sits mid-range on projection, which for a fragrance with thin wear data reflects an absence of reports rather than a measured middle.
Pour Homme sits mid-range on risk, neither a clear crowd-pleaser nor clearly divisive on the evidence available.
Pour Homme sits mid-range on texture, which for a fragrance with thin wear data reflects an absence of reports rather than a measured middle. That is 44th percentile for texture across 5,322 scored fragrances.
Pour Homme keeps the sweetness pared back, dry and austere. That is 13th percentile for sweetness across 5,322 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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