The Trained Nose

Shakira

Dance Midnight

What it is made of, at the heart of a wearing — and the colour this page is tinted with. Wider means more of it.

Leads fruit and white flowers, over vanilla underneath. It narrows as the day goes on. It carries more vanilla than the rest of the catalogue.

The pyramid

top 0–15 min
Consensus needs more than one owner. Right now no one has this linked, so there is nothing to agree or disagree about yet.

What is it chasing?

No original is recorded for this entry. Two kinds of evidence, and they disagree in useful ways.
Closest, as Akin sees it
Ranked by what the crowd says resembles what, with the measured accords breaking ties — falling back to the note pyramid where neither has anything to say. Right about half the time, and the column says which of the three answered.
What people say it reminds them of
Agree and disagree counts. Here is this site’s own owners voting; elsewhere is a tally read from another site.
Carolina Herrera Good Girl elsewhere 112 / 35
Natura Ameixa e Flor de Baunilha elsewhere 2 / 1
Initio Parfums Privés Side Effect elsewhere 1 / 0
Rasasi Diva elsewhere 1 / 0
Lattafa Yara Tous elsewhere 1 / 1
Jimmy Choo I Want Choo elsewhere 21 / 22
Shakira Dance Star Midnight elsewhere 10 / 4
Byredo Bois Obscur elsewhere 5 / 3
Billie Eilish Eilish Intense elsewhere 5 / 7
Cher 70's Couture elsewhere 4 / 5
Carolina Herrera Good Girl Midnight elsewhere 4 / 4
Ghost Orb of Night Opulence elsewhere 3 / 3
Abercrombie & Fitch Authentic Night Femme elsewhere 2 / 1
Faberlic Desirable elsewhere 2 / 3
Avon Imari Corset elsewhere 2 / 1
O Boticário Coffee Woman Fusion elsewhere 1 / 0
Dilís Parfum Dilis Classic Collection № 48 elsewhere 1 / 0
Jequiti Ivete Sangalo Musa elsewhere 1 / 0
Norana Perfumes Rozana elsewhere 1 / 0
Michael Kors Starlight Shimmer elsewhere 1 / 1

Compared with

Each of these reads the two side by side, hour by hour: what they share, what only one of them carries, and what people who have smelled both say about it.

On the scent map

Nearest to it at the heart of a wearing, and what put each one there.
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