Dior
Oud Ispahan
Oriental Woody · 2012 · François Demachy
Longevity
Long
Sillage
Moderate
Occasion
Romantic/Evening
Seasonality
Spring
Oud and rose wound tight around saffron, with patchouli grounding the whole into something deep and resinous. It reads rich and inward, more contemplative than loud, the kind of oriental that settles close and holds.
Taste Profile
The Anchor
The Dry Warmth
Warm enough to be felt. Dry enough to mean it.
There is warmth here but nothing soft about it. It arrives without apology and stays without asking. Substance over comfort, every time.
See your own Taste Map →How Oud Ispahan smells, measured
On Zenyra's five taste axes, Oud Ispahan reads warm and close to the skin, in amber and resin territory, and keeps the sweetness pared back, dry and austere.
Oud Ispahan reads warm and close to the skin, in amber and resin territory.
Oud Ispahan carries across a room and announces itself.
Oud Ispahan sits mid-range on risk, neither a clear crowd-pleaser nor clearly divisive on the evidence available.
Oud Ispahan sits mid-range on texture, which for a fragrance with thin wear data reflects an absence of reports rather than a measured middle.
Oud Ispahan keeps the sweetness pared back, dry and austere.
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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