Van Cleef & Arpels
Precious Oud
Oud Incense · 2011
Notes checked against a published listing.
Modelled profile
Oud lifted by jasmine and incense. Opulent, smooth, deliberately grand.
Taste Profile
The Anchor
The Known Lane
You know exactly what you like and wear it for yourself.
You know your lane and you're happy there. The comfort of familiarity is special and should be honoured. A memory in waiting.
How Precious Oud smells, measured
On Zenyra's five taste axes, Precious Oud feels thick in the air, saturated and physically there, and reads warm and close to the skin, in amber and resin territory.
Modelled profile. This profile is derived from the evidence currently available and may be refined over time.
Precious Oud reads warm and close to the skin, in amber and resin territory. That is 80th percentile for warmth across 5,320 scored fragrances.
Precious Oud 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 72nd percentile for projection across 5,320 scored fragrances.
Precious Oud sits mid-range on risk, neither a clear crowd-pleaser nor clearly divisive on the evidence available. That is 88th percentile for risk across 5,320 scored fragrances.
Precious Oud feels thick in the air, saturated and physically there. That is 93rd percentile for texture across 5,320 scored fragrances.
Precious Oud keeps the sweetness pared back, dry and austere. That is 44th 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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