Byredo
Black Saffron
Amber Fruity · 2012
Longevity
Moderate
Sillage
Moderate
Occasion
Romantic/Evening
Seasonality
Winter
Dry, spicy leather set off by saffron and a flash of raspberry over vetiver. Suggestive and a little austere, it carries a suede-like texture that never turns sweet.
Taste Profile
The Anchor
The Known Lane
You know exactly what you like and wear it for yourself.
You know your lane and you're happy there. The comfort of familiarity is special and should be honoured. A memory in waiting.
See your own Taste Map →How Black Saffron smells, measured
On Zenyra's five taste axes, Black Saffron keeps the sweetness pared back, dry and austere, and sits temperate, built on woods and soft musk rather than amber.
Black Saffron sits temperate, built on woods and soft musk rather than amber. That is 66th percentile for warmth across 5,322 scored fragrances.
Black Saffron sits mid-range on projection, which for a fragrance with thin wear data reflects an absence of reports rather than a measured middle. That is 33rd percentile for projection across 5,322 scored fragrances.
Black Saffron sits mid-range on risk, neither a clear crowd-pleaser nor clearly divisive on the evidence available. That is 69th percentile for risk across 5,322 scored fragrances.
Black Saffron 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 82nd percentile for texture across 5,322 scored fragrances.
Black Saffron 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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