Guerlain
Samsara
Floral Woody · 1989 · Jean-Paul Guerlain
Longevity
Moderate
Sillage
Moderate
Occasion
Smart Casual / Social
Seasonality
All Year
Ylang-ylang and jasmine bloom rich and creamy over sandalwood and vanilla. Warm and meditative, it feels lush and rounded, sweetness wrapped in soft wood.
Taste Profile
The Romantic
The Open Sweet
What you see is what you get. Simply sweet.
Straightforward and consistent, exactly where you want it. Treat yourself. Who doesn't love a bit of sweetness?
See your own Taste Map →How Samsara smells, measured
On Zenyra's five taste axes, Samsara is openly sweet, in gourmand territory, and is broadly easy to wear, familiar in its structure.
Samsara reads warm and close to the skin, in amber and resin territory. That is 79th percentile for warmth across 5,322 scored fragrances.
Samsara 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 14th percentile for projection across 5,322 scored fragrances.
Samsara is broadly easy to wear, familiar in its structure. That is 7th percentile for risk across 5,322 scored fragrances.
Samsara arrives seamless, as a single impression rather than parts. That is 11th percentile for texture across 5,322 scored fragrances.
Samsara is openly sweet, in gourmand territory. That is 92nd 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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