Old Spice
Original
Oriental Spicy · 1938 · Albert Hauck
Longevity
Moderate
Sillage
Moderate
Occasion
Romantic/Evening
Seasonality
Summer
Cinnamon and spiced carnation give a warm, old-fashioned barbershop character, softened by musk and vanilla. Powdery and comforting, it carries a familiar, worn-in warmth.
Taste Profile
The Purist
The Quiet Detail
The individuality is in the detail.
It won't be on anyone's list. That's exactly why it's on yours. The detail always reveals the truth.
See your own Taste Map →How Original smells, measured
On Zenyra's five taste axes, Original keeps the sweetness pared back, dry and austere, and sits temperate, built on woods and soft musk rather than amber.
Original sits temperate, built on woods and soft musk rather than amber.
Original sits mid-range on projection, which for a fragrance with thin wear data reflects an absence of reports rather than a measured middle.
Original sits mid-range on risk, neither a clear crowd-pleaser nor clearly divisive on the evidence available.
Original sits mid-range on texture, which for a fragrance with thin wear data reflects an absence of reports rather than a measured middle.
Original keeps the sweetness pared back, dry and austere.
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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