Francesca Bianchi
Sex and the Sea
Floral Oriental · 2016 · Francesca Bianchi
Longevity
Long
Sillage
Strong
Occasion
Romantic/Evening
Seasonality
Winter
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, present and quietly adventurous.
The warmth draws people in. The choice surprises them. That combination is rarer than it looks.
See your own Taste Map →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.
Sex and the Sea reads warm and close to the skin, in amber and resin territory. That is 87th percentile for warmth across 5,322 scored fragrances.
Sex and the Sea carries across a room and announces itself. That is 93rd percentile for projection across 5,322 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 5,322 scored fragrances.
Sex and the Sea sits mid-range on texture, which for a fragrance with thin wear data reflects an absence of reports rather than a measured middle. That is 31st percentile for texture across 5,322 scored fragrances.
Sex and the Sea is openly sweet, in gourmand territory. That is 84th percentile for sweetness across 5,322 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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