Serge Lutens
La Couche du Diable
Chypre Floral
Longevity
Beast Mode
Sillage
Moderate
Occasion
Romantic/Evening
Seasonality
Summer
Narcotic tuberose smeared with civet and oakmoss, incense curling through. Feral and old-world, beauty with dirt under its nails.
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 La Couche du Diable smells, measured
On Zenyra's five taste axes, La Couche du Diable keeps the sweetness pared back, dry and austere, and reads warm and close to the skin, in amber and resin territory.
La Couche du Diable reads warm and close to the skin, in amber and resin territory. That is 87th percentile for warmth across 5,322 scored fragrances.
La Couche du Diable 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 71st percentile for projection across 5,322 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 5,322 scored fragrances.
La Couche du Diable leaves its components exposed, shifting as it wears. That is 94th percentile for texture across 5,322 scored fragrances.
La Couche du Diable 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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