Dark Purple
Floral Fruity · 2011 · Pierre Montale
Notes carried over from an earlier source and not independently checked.
- 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
Ripe plum leads a dark, jammy sweetness over soft rose, warmed by amber and clean musk. Rounded and even, it reads velvety and dusky, a fruited floral with a quiet golden base.
Taste Profile
The Natural
The Soft Presence
Warm enough to feel right. Easy enough to forget.
Some choices just work. This one keeps working. The best kind of invisible.
How Dark Purple smells, measured
On Zenyra's five taste axes, Dark Purple carries sweetness without letting it define the scent, and sits temperate, built on woods and soft musk rather than amber.
Modelled profile. This profile is derived from the evidence currently available and may be refined over time.
Dark Purple sits temperate, built on woods and soft musk rather than amber. That is 41st percentile for warmth across 5,283 scored fragrances.
Dark Purple sits mid-range on projection. That is 39th percentile for projection across 5,283 scored fragrances.
Dark Purple sits mid-range on risk, neither a clear crowd-pleaser nor clearly divisive on the evidence available. That is 69th percentile for risk across 5,283 scored fragrances.
Dark Purple carries some body without feeling heavy. That is 42nd percentile for texture across 5,283 scored fragrances.
Dark Purple carries sweetness without letting it define the scent. That is 78th 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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