Marc-Antoine Barrois

B683

Woody Spicy · 2016 · Quentin Bisch

SaffronViolet LeafPatchouli

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

Reported longevity: Long
Reported sillage: Strong
Typical occasion: Romantic/Evening
Typical season: Summer

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

Saffron gives a leathery, slightly metallic warmth over dry patchouli, with violet leaf adding a cool green edge. It projects strongly and runs warm, spare in its notes yet deep and memorable.

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 B683 smells, measured

On Zenyra's five taste axes, B683 reads warm and close to the skin, in amber and resin territory, and keeps the sweetness pared back, dry and austere.

Modelled profile. This profile is derived from the evidence currently available and may be refined over time.

Warmthwarm, close0.81

B683 reads warm and close to the skin, in amber and resin territory. That is 90th percentile for warmth across 5,283 scored fragrances.

Projectionroom-filling0.71

B683 carries across a room and announces itself. That is 89th percentile for projection across 5,283 scored fragrances.

Riskmid-range0.37

B683 sits mid-range on risk, neither a clear crowd-pleaser nor clearly divisive on the evidence available.

Texturebalanced0.52

B683 carries some body without feeling heavy. That is 57th percentile for texture across 5,283 scored fragrances.

Sweetnessdry0.28

B683 keeps the sweetness pared back, dry and austere. That is 30th 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.

How Zenyra measures these five axes →