Zoologist
Squid
Fresh Oriental · 2019 · Céline Barel
Longevity
Long
Sillage
Moderate
Occasion
Romantic/Evening
Seasonality
Summer
An inky, mineral darkness of ambergris and opoponax under smoky incense. It reads as salt and shadow, warm resins meeting something briny and strange, dense and slow to unfold.
Taste Profile
The Original
The Deep Reach
Richer than most would reach for.
The depth here isn't accidental. Layer after layer, worn close, revealed slowly. This is what it looks like when someone really goes there.
See your own Taste Map →How Squid smells, measured
On Zenyra's five taste axes, Squid reads warm and close to the skin, in amber and resin territory, and keeps the sweetness pared back, dry and austere.
Squid reads warm and close to the skin, in amber and resin territory. That is 87th percentile for warmth across 5,322 scored fragrances.
Squid 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 59th percentile for projection across 5,322 scored fragrances.
Squid divides opinion by design. That is among the highest in the catalogue for risk across 5,322 scored fragrances.
Squid leaves its components exposed, shifting as it wears. That is 94th percentile for texture across 5,322 scored fragrances.
Squid keeps the sweetness pared back, dry and austere. That is 29th 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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