La Couche du Diable
Chypre Floral
Notes checked against a published listing.
- Reported longevity
- Very strong
- 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
Opens on bergamot, cardamom and leather, settling into vanilla and cedar. The character is warm and resinous, mostly dry. It reaches past the wearer without filling a room.
Taste Profile
The Anchor
The Slow Depth
A rich and warm centre of gravity. Change is part of the journey.
Everything around you may shift but this stays constant. The depth here takes time. It opens slowly and rewards patience. Some things get richer the longer you stay.
How La Couche du Diable smells, measured
On Zenyra's five taste axes, La Couche du Diable reads warm and close to the skin, in amber and resin territory, and feels thick in the air, saturated and physically there.
Modelled profile. This profile is derived from the evidence currently available and may be refined over time.
La Couche du Diable reads warm and close to the skin, in amber and resin territory. That is 95th percentile for warmth across 5,283 scored fragrances.
La Couche du Diable sits mid-range on projection. That is 71st percentile for projection across 5,283 scored fragrances.
La Couche du Diable sits mid-range on risk, neither a clear crowd-pleaser nor clearly divisive on the evidence available. That is 93rd percentile for risk across 5,283 scored fragrances.
La Couche du Diable feels thick in the air, saturated and physically there. That is 94th percentile for texture across 5,283 scored fragrances.
La Couche du Diable keeps the sweetness pared back, dry and austere. That is 26th percentile for sweetness across 5,283 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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