Givenchy
Play
Citrus Woody · 2008 · Emilie Coppermann, Lucas Sieuzac
Longevity
Moderate
Sillage
Moderate
Occasion
Office/Daily
Seasonality
Summer
Bright mandarin quickly cedes to roasted coffee, laid over amyris wood and vetiver. The result is warm and slightly bittersweet, a woody-gourmand that stays grounded and dry.
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 Play smells, measured
On Zenyra's five taste axes, Play is broadly easy to wear, familiar in its structure, and reads warm and close to the skin, in amber and resin territory.
Play reads warm and close to the skin, in amber and resin territory. That is 87th percentile for warmth across 5,322 scored fragrances.
Play 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 22nd percentile for projection across 5,322 scored fragrances.
Play is broadly easy to wear, familiar in its structure. That is 7th percentile for risk across 5,322 scored fragrances.
Play arrives seamless, as a single impression rather than parts. That is 11th percentile for texture across 5,322 scored fragrances.
Play keeps the sweetness pared back, dry and austere. That is 13th 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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