Ted Lapidus
Rumba
sweet floral · 1989
Notes carried over from an earlier source and not independently checked.
- Reported longevity
- Good
- Reported sillage
- Strong
- Typical occasion
- professional
- Typical season
- spring
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
An opulent, honeyed oriental where plum, peach and raspberry open over a heady tuberose, jasmine and rose heart. Leather, ambergris, patchouli and vanilla build a warm, animalic base with big projection, lush and old-world sensual.
Taste Profile
The Natural
The Easy Choice
Always works, always easy.
The one to reach for in a hurry. It fits the moment because it always does. Don't think, just go for it.
How Rumba smells, measured
On Zenyra's five taste axes, Rumba carries across a room and announces itself, and is openly sweet, in gourmand territory.
Modelled profile. This profile is derived from the evidence currently available and may be refined over time.
Rumba sits temperate, built on woods and soft musk rather than amber. That is 70th percentile for warmth across 5,283 scored fragrances.
Rumba carries across a room and announces itself. That is among the highest in the catalogue for projection across 5,283 scored fragrances.
Rumba sits mid-range on risk, neither a clear crowd-pleaser nor clearly divisive on the evidence available. That is 64th percentile for risk across 5,283 scored fragrances.
Rumba carries some body without feeling heavy. That is 72nd percentile for texture across 5,283 scored fragrances.
Rumba is openly sweet, in gourmand territory. That is 89th 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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