Dark Aoud
Floral Gourmand Oud · 2011
Notes checked against a published listing.
- Reported longevity
- Moderate
- Reported sillage
- Moderate
- 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
Smoky oud sits at the heart, dark and dry, with rose lending a shadowed floral edge. Vanilla and tonka barely sweeten the base, keeping the character brooding and resinous, warmth without softness.
Taste Profile
The Anchor
The Known Lane
You know exactly what you like and wear it for yourself.
You know your lane and you're happy there. The comfort of familiarity is special and should be honoured. A memory in waiting.
How Dark Aoud smells, measured
On Zenyra's five taste axes, Dark Aoud feels thick in the air, saturated and physically there, 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.
Dark Aoud reads warm and close to the skin, in amber and resin territory. That is 93rd percentile for warmth across 5,283 scored fragrances.
Dark Aoud sits mid-range on projection. That is 39th percentile for projection across 5,283 scored fragrances.
Dark Aoud sits mid-range on risk, neither a clear crowd-pleaser nor clearly divisive on the evidence available. That is 84th percentile for risk across 5,283 scored fragrances.
Dark Aoud feels thick in the air, saturated and physically there. That is among the highest in the catalogue for texture across 5,283 scored fragrances.
Dark Aoud keeps the sweetness pared back, dry and austere. That is 11th 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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