Xerjoff
Zafar
Amber Woody · 2012
Longevity
Good
Sillage
Moderate
Occasion
Romantic/Evening
Seasonality
Winter
A spicy oud where incense and cedar frame a dry rose, with black pepper and green apple sharpening the opening. Vetiver and musk deepen the base, making it smoky, austere and boldly projecting, with real presence.
Taste Profile
The Anchor
The Slow Depth
A rich and warm centre of gravity. Change is part of the journey.
Everything around you may shift but this stays constant. The depth here takes time. It opens slowly and rewards patience. Some things get richer the longer you stay.
See your own Taste Map →How Zafar smells, measured
On Zenyra's five taste axes, Zafar keeps the sweetness pared back, dry and austere, and leaves its components exposed, shifting as it wears.
Zafar reads warm and close to the skin, in amber and resin territory. That is 74th percentile for warmth across 5,322 scored fragrances.
Zafar carries across a room and announces itself. That is among the highest in the catalogue for projection across 5,322 scored fragrances.
Zafar sits mid-range on risk, neither a clear crowd-pleaser nor clearly divisive on the evidence available. That is 84th percentile for risk across 5,322 scored fragrances.
Zafar leaves its components exposed, shifting as it wears. That is among the highest in the catalogue for texture across 5,322 scored fragrances.
Zafar 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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