Ex Nihilo
Midnight Special
Oud Floral · 2017 · Olivier Pescheux
Notes checked against a published listing.
- Typical occasion
- Romantic/Evening
- Typical season
- Winter
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
Saffron and Turkish rose across oud. Dense, spiced, nocturnal.
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 Midnight Special smells, measured
On Zenyra's five taste axes, Midnight Special reads warm and close to the skin, in amber and resin territory, 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.
Midnight Special reads warm and close to the skin, in amber and resin territory. That is 84th percentile for warmth across 5,320 scored fragrances.
Midnight Special sits mid-range on projection, which for a fragrance with thin wear data reflects an absence of reports rather than a measured middle. That is 79th percentile for projection across 5,320 scored fragrances.
Midnight Special sits mid-range on risk, neither a clear crowd-pleaser nor clearly divisive on the evidence available. That is 92nd percentile for risk across 5,320 scored fragrances.
Midnight Special feels thick in the air, saturated and physically there. That is 80th percentile for texture across 5,320 scored fragrances.
Midnight Special carries sweetness without letting it define the scent. That is 62nd percentile for sweetness across 5,320 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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