Olympic Orchids
Blackbird
Oriental Woody · 2011 · Ellen Covey
Longevity
Beast Mode
Sillage
Moderate
Occasion
Romantic/Evening
Seasonality
Summer
Smoke and incense curling around leather and musk, dark and provocative. It is the boldest thing here, a charred, tarry depth that reads more ritual than pretty.
Taste Profile
The Original
The Considered Statement
Makes a statement worth asking about.
Unusual enough to stop someone mid-thought. Considered enough to keep them there. The question it raises is the point.
See your own Taste Map →How Blackbird smells, measured
On Zenyra's five taste axes, Blackbird keeps the sweetness pared back, dry and austere, and divides opinion by design.
Blackbird sits temperate, built on woods and soft musk rather than amber. That is 43rd percentile for warmth across 5,322 scored fragrances.
Blackbird sits mid-range on projection, which for a fragrance with thin wear data reflects an absence of reports rather than a measured middle. That is 71st percentile for projection across 5,322 scored fragrances.
Blackbird divides opinion by design. That is among the highest in the catalogue for risk across 5,322 scored fragrances.
Blackbird sits mid-range on texture, which for a fragrance with thin wear data reflects an absence of reports rather than a measured middle.
Blackbird keeps the sweetness pared back, dry and austere. That is 4th 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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