Penhaligon's
Cairo
Oriental Woody · 2019
Longevity
Moderate
Sillage
Moderate
Occasion
Smart Casual / Social
Seasonality
All Year
A saffron-lit damask rose over cypriol, patchouli and cedar, with labdanum and vanilla rounding the base. Spicy and softly oriental, it carries a good distance while staying grounded in the woods.
Taste Profile
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On Zenyra's five taste axes, Cairo keeps the sweetness pared back, dry and austere, and carries across a room and announces itself.
Cairo sits temperate, built on woods and soft musk rather than amber.
Cairo carries across a room and announces itself. That is 86th percentile for projection across 5,322 scored fragrances.
Cairo sits mid-range on risk, neither a clear crowd-pleaser nor clearly divisive on the evidence available.
Cairo sits mid-range on texture, which for a fragrance with thin wear data reflects an absence of reports rather than a measured middle. That is 82nd percentile for texture across 5,322 scored fragrances.
Cairo keeps the sweetness pared back, dry and austere. That is 29th 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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