Shalimar (Vintage Extrait)
Oriental · 1925 · Jacques Guerlain
Notes carried over from an earlier source and not independently checked.
- Reported longevity
- Moderate
- Reported sillage
- Moderate
- Typical occasion
- Office/Daily
- Typical season
- Spring
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
Bergamot flares bright before a vast, resinous vanilla unfolds over incense, leather and civet. Deep and room-filling, it is the archetype of ambered opulence, smoky and animal-warm beneath the sweetness.
Taste Profile
The Romantic
The Social Warmth
Fit for purpose. Let the socialising begin.
Fragrance and occasion are the same conversation for you. The right scent sets the tone before anything else does. You walked in ready and everyone felt it.
How Shalimar (Vintage Extrait) smells, measured
On Zenyra's five taste axes, Shalimar (Vintage Extrait) carries across a room and announces itself, 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.
Shalimar (Vintage Extrait) reads warm and close to the skin, in amber and resin territory. That is 79th percentile for warmth across 5,283 scored fragrances.
Shalimar (Vintage Extrait) carries across a room and announces itself. That is among the highest in the catalogue for projection across 5,283 scored fragrances.
Shalimar (Vintage Extrait) sits mid-range on risk, neither a clear crowd-pleaser nor clearly divisive on the evidence available. That is 68th percentile for risk across 5,283 scored fragrances.
Shalimar (Vintage Extrait) feels thick in the air, saturated and physically there. That is 80th percentile for texture across 5,283 scored fragrances.
Shalimar (Vintage Extrait) is openly sweet, in gourmand territory. That is 89th 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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