Sequoia
Woody · 2002 · Christian Astuguevieille
Notes checked against a published listing.
- Reported longevity
- Moderate
- Reported sillage
- Moderate
- Typical occasion
- Office/Daily
- Typical season
- Spring
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.
Reviewed profile
Sequoia and cedar give a dry, upright woodiness threaded with warm spice. A resinous sweetness rounds the edges without turning gourmand. It smells like sun-warmed timber, clean and grounded.
Taste Profile
The Romantic
The Private Warmth
Private warmth. Fully felt.
The sweetness is real and the warmth runs deep. Neither needs an audience to mean something. Chosen entirely for how it feels.
How Sequoia smells, measured
On Zenyra's five taste axes, Sequoia reads warm and close to the skin, in amber and resin territory, and feels thick in the air, saturated and physically there.
Reviewed profile. This profile has received a focused catalogue review.
Sequoia reads warm and close to the skin, in amber and resin territory. That is 83rd percentile for warmth across 5,283 scored fragrances.
Sequoia sits mid-range on projection. That is 7th percentile for projection across 5,283 scored fragrances.
Sequoia 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.
Sequoia feels thick in the air, saturated and physically there. That is 80th percentile for texture across 5,283 scored fragrances.
Sequoia carries sweetness without letting it define the scent. That is 78th 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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