Black
Woody Chypre
Notes checked against a published listing.
- Reported longevity
- Moderate
- Reported sillage
- Moderate
- Typical occasion
- Romantic/Evening
- Typical season
- Summer
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
Opens on birch tar, incense and black pepper, settling into cedar and musk. The character is warm and close to the skin, dry throughout. It keeps within arm's reach.
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.
How Black smells, measured
On Zenyra's five taste axes, Black keeps the sweetness pared back, dry and austere, 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.
Black reads warm and close to the skin, in amber and resin territory. That is 80th percentile for warmth across 5,283 scored fragrances.
Black sits mid-range on projection. That is 39th percentile for projection across 5,283 scored fragrances.
Black sits mid-range on risk, neither a clear crowd-pleaser nor clearly divisive on the evidence available. That is 93rd percentile for risk across 5,283 scored fragrances.
Black feels thick in the air, saturated and physically there. That is 80th percentile for texture across 5,283 scored fragrances.
Black keeps the sweetness pared back, dry and austere. That is among the lowest in the catalogue 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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