Kerosene
Unknown Pleasures
Oriental · 2013
Longevity
Long
Sillage
Strong
Occasion
Evening
Seasonality
Autumn / Winter
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, present and quietly adventurous.
The warmth draws people in. The choice surprises them. That combination is rarer than it looks.
See your own Taste Map →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.
Unknown Pleasures reads warm and close to the skin, in amber and resin territory. That is 79th percentile for warmth across 5,322 scored fragrances.
Unknown Pleasures carries across a room and announces itself. That is 93rd percentile for projection across 5,322 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 5,322 scored fragrances.
Unknown Pleasures 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 38th percentile for texture across 5,322 scored fragrances.
Unknown Pleasures carries sweetness without letting it define the scent. That is 69th 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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