House of Matriarch
Black No. 1
Oriental Woody · 2012 · Christi Meshell
Longevity
Moderate
Sillage
Moderate
Occasion
Office/Daily
Seasonality
Spring
Northwest conifers and white sage open resinous and wild, cut with briny seaweed and a green cannabis note. Oud, black leather and hyraceum drag it into dark, animalic territory. Strange and untamed, closer to landscape than perfume.
Taste Profile
The Original
The Considered Statement
Makes a statement worth asking about.
Unusual enough to stop someone mid-thought. Considered enough to keep them there. The question it raises is the point.
See your own Taste Map →How Black No. 1 smells, measured
On Zenyra's five taste axes, Black No. 1 divides opinion by design, and carries across a room and announces itself.
Black No. 1 sits temperate, built on woods and soft musk rather than amber. That is 68th percentile for warmth across 5,322 scored fragrances.
Black No. 1 carries across a room and announces itself. That is 93rd percentile for projection across 5,322 scored fragrances.
Black No. 1 divides opinion by design. That is among the highest in the catalogue for risk across 5,322 scored fragrances.
Black No. 1 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 86th percentile for texture across 5,322 scored fragrances.
Black No. 1 keeps the sweetness pared back, dry and austere. That is 29th 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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