Instinct
Woody Aromatic · 2005 · Beatrice Piquet
Notes checked against a published listing.
- Reported longevity
- Short
- Reported sillage
- Moderate
- Typical occasion
- Office/Daily
- 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
Built around bergamot, mandarin orange and pineapple, with musk and vanilla underneath. It reads cool, with a little weight underneath and lightly sweetened. It keeps within arm's reach.
Taste Profile
The Natural
The Soft Presence
Warm enough to feel right. Easy enough to forget.
Some choices just work. This one keeps working. The best kind of invisible.
How Instinct smells, measured
On Zenyra's five taste axes, Instinct sits light in the air, close to the skin and easy to miss, 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.
Instinct sits temperate, built on woods and soft musk rather than amber. That is 41st percentile for warmth across 5,283 scored fragrances.
Instinct sits mid-range on projection. That is 10th percentile for projection across 5,283 scored fragrances.
Instinct sits mid-range on risk, neither a clear crowd-pleaser nor clearly divisive on the evidence available. That is 78th percentile for risk across 5,283 scored fragrances.
Instinct sits light in the air, close to the skin and easy to miss. That is 10th percentile for texture across 5,283 scored fragrances.
Instinct carries sweetness without letting it define the scent. That is 72nd 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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