Heeley
Cardinal
Green Leather
Longevity
Moderate
Sillage
Intimate
Occasion
Formal
Seasonality
Winter
Olibanum and myrrh give a cool, church-like incense, labdanum and amber warming the resinous base. Pepper and patchouli add depth. Clean, meditative and grand.
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 Cardinal smells, measured
On Zenyra's five taste axes, Cardinal reads warm and close to the skin, in amber and resin territory, and carries sweetness without letting it define the scent.
Cardinal reads warm and close to the skin, in amber and resin territory. That is 86th percentile for warmth across 5,322 scored fragrances.
Cardinal 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 66th percentile for projection across 5,322 scored fragrances.
Cardinal sits mid-range on risk, neither a clear crowd-pleaser nor clearly divisive on the evidence available. That is 89th percentile for risk across 5,322 scored fragrances.
Cardinal 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 76th percentile for texture across 5,322 scored fragrances.
Cardinal carries sweetness without letting it define the scent.
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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