Bond No. 9

Chinatown

Peach BlossomsGardeniaTuberosePatchouliCardamom

Notes checked against a published listing.

Typical occasion
Romantic/Evening
Typical season
Winter

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

Peach and gardenia over warm patchouli and spice. Iconic and unapologetically rich.

Taste Profile

The Romantic archetype

The Romantic

The Warm Surprise

Warm and quietly adventurous.

The warmth draws people in. The choice surprises them. That combination is rarer than it looks.

How Chinatown smells, measured

On Zenyra's five taste axes, Chinatown carries across a room and announces itself, and sits temperate, built on woods and soft musk rather than amber.

Modelled profile. This profile is derived from the evidence currently available and may be refined over time.

Warmthtemperate0.65

Chinatown sits temperate, built on woods and soft musk rather than amber. That is 75th percentile for warmth across 5,283 scored fragrances.

Projectionroom-filling0.70

Chinatown carries across a room and announces itself. That is 88th percentile for projection across 5,283 scored fragrances.

Riskmid-range0.50

Chinatown sits mid-range on risk, neither a clear crowd-pleaser nor clearly divisive on the evidence available. That is 89th percentile for risk across 5,283 scored fragrances.

Texturebalanced0.52

Chinatown carries some body without feeling heavy. That is 57th percentile for texture across 5,283 scored fragrances.

Sweetnesslightly sweet0.60

Chinatown carries sweetness without letting it define the scent. That is 82nd 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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