Black Orchid Parfum
Oriental Woody · 2020
Notes checked against a published listing.
- Reported longevity
- Very strong
- 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
Orchid over dark chocolate and blackcurrant, with truffle, patchouli and incense drawing it down. The parfum reads a touch richer and more concentrated, warm and dusky, sitting near the skin.
Taste Profile
The Romantic
The Warm Surprise
Warm and quietly adventurous.
The warmth draws people in. The choice surprises them. That combination is rarer than it looks.
How Black Orchid Parfum smells, measured
On Zenyra's five taste axes, Black Orchid Parfum 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.
Black Orchid Parfum reads warm and close to the skin, in amber and resin territory. That is 81st percentile for warmth across 5,283 scored fragrances.
Black Orchid Parfum carries across a room and announces itself. That is 88th percentile for projection across 5,283 scored fragrances.
Black Orchid Parfum 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.
Black Orchid Parfum feels thick in the air, saturated and physically there. That is 80th percentile for texture across 5,283 scored fragrances.
Black Orchid Parfum carries sweetness without letting it define the scent. That is 85th 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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