Paco Rabanne
Black XS Los Angeles
Oriental Woody · 2016
Notes checked against a published listing.
- Reported longevity
- Long
- 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
Citrus and cool spice open over a light amber-vanilla base. It stays fresh and restrained, more crisp than warm. A breezy, low-key spin on the amber theme.
Taste Profile
The Natural
The Soft Presence
Warm enough to feel right. Easy enough to forget.
Not every choice needs to be a statement. This one just works and keeps working. The best kind of invisible.
How Black XS Los Angeles smells, measured
On Zenyra's five taste axes, Black XS Los Angeles is broadly easy to wear, familiar in its structure, and sits light in the air, close to the skin and easy to miss.
Modelled profile. This profile is derived from the evidence currently available and may be refined over time.
Black XS Los Angeles sits temperate, built on woods and soft musk rather than amber. That is 60th percentile for warmth across 5,320 scored fragrances.
Black XS Los Angeles sits mid-range on projection, which for a fragrance with thin wear data reflects an absence of reports rather than a measured middle.
Black XS Los Angeles is broadly easy to wear, familiar in its structure. That is 7th percentile for risk across 5,320 scored fragrances.
Black XS Los Angeles sits light in the air, close to the skin and easy to miss. That is 10th percentile for texture across 5,320 scored fragrances.
Black XS Los Angeles carries sweetness without letting it define the scent. That is 78th percentile for sweetness across 5,320 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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