Serge Lutens
De Profundis
Floral Fruity
Longevity
Beast Mode
Sillage
Strong
Occasion
Romantic/Evening
Seasonality
Winter
A cool, funereal bouquet: chrysanthemum and lily threaded with violet and plum, cypress and incense drifting like cold air. Melancholy and strangely serene.
Taste Profile
The Purist
The Slow Reveal
Experienced differently as time goes on.
The complexity is there for those who stay with it. Layered, deliberate, quietly evolving. Some kinds of presence take time to understand.
See your own Taste Map →How De Profundis smells, measured
On Zenyra's five taste axes, De Profundis keeps the sweetness pared back, dry and austere, and carries across a room and announces itself.
De Profundis reads cool and open, nearer to citrus and air than to skin. That is 17th percentile for warmth across 5,322 scored fragrances.
De Profundis carries across a room and announces itself. That is among the highest in the catalogue for projection across 5,322 scored fragrances.
De Profundis sits mid-range on risk, neither a clear crowd-pleaser nor clearly divisive on the evidence available. That is 93rd percentile for risk across 5,322 scored fragrances.
De Profundis leaves its components exposed, shifting as it wears. That is 94th percentile for texture across 5,322 scored fragrances.
De Profundis 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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