Kerosene
Unknown Pleasures
Oriental · 2013
Notes carried over from an earlier source and not independently checked.
- Reported longevity
- Long
- Reported sillage
- Strong
- Typical occasion
- Evening
- Typical season
- Autumn / Winter
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
Sweet vanilla melts into supple leather, warmed by amber into something rich and slightly smoky. It projects with a dark, resinous sweetness, plush at the center with a rugged edge that keeps it from turning cloying.
Taste Profile
The Romantic
The Warm Surprise
Warm and quietly adventurous.
The warmth draws people in. The choice surprises them. That combination is rarer than it looks.
How Unknown Pleasures smells, measured
On Zenyra's five taste axes, Unknown Pleasures reads warm and close to the skin, in amber and resin territory, and carries across a room and announces itself.
Reviewed profile. This profile has received a focused catalogue review.
Unknown Pleasures reads warm and close to the skin, in amber and resin territory. That is 84th percentile for warmth across 5,283 scored fragrances.
Unknown Pleasures carries across a room and announces itself. That is 93rd percentile for projection across 5,283 scored fragrances.
Unknown Pleasures sits mid-range on risk, neither a clear crowd-pleaser nor clearly divisive on the evidence available. That is 78th percentile for risk across 5,283 scored fragrances.
Unknown Pleasures feels thick in the air, saturated and physically there. That is 80th percentile for texture across 5,283 scored fragrances.
Unknown Pleasures carries sweetness without letting it define the scent. That is 69th 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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