L’Eau d’Issey Shades of Kolam (Men)
Citrus Aromatic · 2020 · Jacques Cavallier
Notes carried over from an earlier source and not independently checked.
- Reported longevity
- Long
- Reported sillage
- Moderate
- Typical occasion
- Romantic/Evening
- 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
Bright grapefruit meets the dry lift of cardamom over a grounding thread of vetiver. The effect is clean and understated, cool and lightly peppered without ever turning heavy.
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How L’Eau d’Issey Shades of Kolam (Men) smells, measured
On Zenyra's five taste axes, L’Eau d’Issey Shades of Kolam (Men) keeps the sweetness pared back, dry and austere, and reads cool and open, nearer to citrus and air than to skin.
Modelled profile. This profile is derived from the evidence currently available and may be refined over time.
L’Eau d’Issey Shades of Kolam (Men) reads cool and open, nearer to citrus and air than to skin. That is 8th percentile for warmth across 5,283 scored fragrances.
L’Eau d’Issey Shades of Kolam (Men) sits mid-range on projection. That is 39th percentile for projection across 5,283 scored fragrances.
L’Eau d’Issey Shades of Kolam (Men) sits mid-range on risk, neither a clear crowd-pleaser nor clearly divisive on the evidence available.
L’Eau d’Issey Shades of Kolam (Men) sits light in the air, close to the skin and easy to miss. That is 10th percentile for texture across 5,283 scored fragrances.
L’Eau d’Issey Shades of Kolam (Men) keeps the sweetness pared back, dry and austere. That is 5th 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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