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Les Essences No.1

Floral Woody · 2018

PearJasmineCedarMusk

Notes carried over from an earlier source and not independently checked.

Reported longevity
Moderate
Reported sillage
Moderate
Typical occasion
Smart Casual / Social
Typical season
All Year

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.

Reviewed profile

Juicy pear and jasmine settle onto cedar and clean musk. Warm and smooth, it balances a fruity-floral top against a soft woody-musky base.

Taste Profile

The Anchor archetype

The Anchor

The Dry Warmth

Warm enough to be felt. Dry enough to mean it.

The warmth here is firm. It arrives unapologetic and stays put. Substance comes first, every time.

How Les Essences No.1 smells, measured

On Zenyra's five taste axes, Les Essences No.1 is broadly easy to wear, familiar in its structure, and reads warm and close to the skin, in amber and resin territory.

Reviewed profile. This profile has received a focused catalogue review.

Warmthwarm, close0.81

Les Essences No.1 reads warm and close to the skin, in amber and resin territory. That is 90th percentile for warmth across 5,283 scored fragrances.

Projectionmid-range0.39

Les Essences No.1 sits mid-range on projection. That is 10th percentile for projection across 5,283 scored fragrances.

Riskfamiliar0.15

Les Essences No.1 is broadly easy to wear, familiar in its structure. That is 7th percentile for risk across 5,283 scored fragrances.

Texturebalanced0.42

Les Essences No.1 carries some body without feeling heavy. That is 22nd percentile for texture across 5,283 scored fragrances.

Sweetnessdry0.20

Les Essences No.1 keeps the sweetness pared back, dry and austere. That is 14th 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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