Sex and the Sea
Floral Oriental · 2016 · Francesca Bianchi
Notes carried over from an earlier source and not independently checked.
- Reported longevity
- Long
- Reported sillage
- Strong
- 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
Sun-warmed coconut and immortelle over ambergris and musk, salty-sweet and skin-close in feel yet loud in reach. It smells of heat and bare skin, a little dizzying.
Taste Profile
The Romantic
The Warm Surprise
Warm and quietly adventurous.
The warmth draws people in. The choice surprises them. That combination is rarer than it looks.
How Sex and the Sea smells, measured
On Zenyra's five taste axes, Sex and the Sea reads warm and close to the skin, in amber and resin territory, and carries across a room and announces itself.
Modelled profile. This profile is derived from the evidence currently available and may be refined over time.
Sex and the Sea reads warm and close to the skin, in amber and resin territory. That is 90th percentile for warmth across 5,283 scored fragrances.
Sex and the Sea carries across a room and announces itself. That is 93rd percentile for projection across 5,283 scored fragrances.
Sex and the Sea sits mid-range on risk, neither a clear crowd-pleaser nor clearly divisive on the evidence available. That is 96th percentile for risk across 5,283 scored fragrances.
Sex and the Sea feels thick in the air, saturated and physically there. That is 80th percentile for texture across 5,283 scored fragrances.
Sex and the Sea is openly sweet, in gourmand territory. That is 86th 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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