Puredistance
Black
Woody Spicy · 2013 · Antoine Lie
Longevity
Moderate
Sillage
Moderate
Occasion
Office/Daily
Seasonality
Summer
Pepper sparks over incense, leather and amber, dark and resinous. Warm and smoky, it settles into a brooding, refined depth.
Taste Profile
The Anchor
The Dry Warmth
Warm enough to be felt. Dry enough to mean it.
There is warmth here but nothing soft about it. It arrives without apology and stays without asking. Substance over comfort, every time.
See your own Taste Map →How Black smells, measured
On Zenyra's five taste axes, Black reads warm and close to the skin, in amber and resin territory, and keeps the sweetness pared back, dry and austere.
Black reads warm and close to the skin, in amber and resin territory. That is 87th percentile for warmth across 5,322 scored fragrances.
Black 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 37th percentile for projection across 5,322 scored fragrances.
Black sits mid-range on risk, neither a clear crowd-pleaser nor clearly divisive on the evidence available. That is 87th percentile for risk across 5,322 scored fragrances.
Black 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 62nd percentile for texture across 5,322 scored fragrances.
Black keeps the sweetness pared back, dry and austere. That is 13th 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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