Elie Saab Essence No 4 Oud
oud fresh spicy · 2014
Notes carried over from an earlier source and not independently checked.
- Reported longevity
- Good
- Reported sillage
- Strong
- Typical occasion
- night out
- Typical season
- fall
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
Agarwood sits at the center, warmed by benzoin and lifted by black pepper. Spare and resinous, it reads as a warm woody oud with strong presence and little ornament.
Taste Profile
The Anchor
The Slow Depth
A rich and warm centre of gravity. Change is part of the journey.
Everything around you may shift but this stays constant. The depth here takes time. It opens slowly and rewards patience. Some things get richer the longer you stay.
How Elie Saab Essence No 4 Oud smells, measured
On Zenyra's five taste axes, Elie Saab Essence No 4 Oud feels thick in the air, saturated and physically there, and carries across a room and announces itself.
Reviewed profile. This profile has received a focused catalogue review.
Elie Saab Essence No 4 Oud reads warm and close to the skin, in amber and resin territory. That is 79th percentile for warmth across 5,283 scored fragrances.
Elie Saab Essence No 4 Oud carries across a room and announces itself. That is 91st percentile for projection across 5,283 scored fragrances.
Elie Saab Essence No 4 Oud sits mid-range on risk, neither a clear crowd-pleaser nor clearly divisive on the evidence available. That is 69th percentile for risk across 5,283 scored fragrances.
Elie Saab Essence No 4 Oud feels thick in the air, saturated and physically there. That is 94th percentile for texture across 5,283 scored fragrances.
Elie Saab Essence No 4 Oud carries sweetness without letting it define the scent.
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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