Serge Lutens
Mandarine Mandarine
Amber Citrus · 2006 · Christopher Sheldrake
Notes carried over from an earlier source and not independently checked.
- Reported longevity
- Long
- Reported sillage
- Moderate
- Typical occasion
- Office/Daily
- 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
Candied mandarin and orange peel spiced with nutmeg, resting on amber, labdanum and tonka. Bright citrus given oriental depth, jammy and glowing.
Taste Profile
The Natural
The Soft Presence
Warm enough to feel right. Easy enough to forget.
Not every choice needs to be a statement. This one just works and keeps working. The best kind of invisible.
How Mandarine Mandarine smells, measured
On Zenyra's five taste axes, Mandarine Mandarine carries sweetness without letting it define the scent, and sits temperate, built on woods and soft musk rather than amber.
Modelled profile. This profile is derived from the evidence currently available and may be refined over time.
Mandarine Mandarine sits temperate, built on woods and soft musk rather than amber. That is 56th percentile for warmth across 5,320 scored fragrances.
Mandarine Mandarine 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 34th percentile for projection across 5,320 scored fragrances.
Mandarine Mandarine sits mid-range on risk, neither a clear crowd-pleaser nor clearly divisive on the evidence available. That is 65th percentile for risk across 5,320 scored fragrances.
Mandarine Mandarine carries body without weight, present without filling a room. That is 22nd percentile for texture across 5,320 scored fragrances.
Mandarine Mandarine carries sweetness without letting it define the scent. That is 67th percentile for sweetness across 5,320 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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