The Trained Nose

Yves Saint Laurent

Elle Summer Fragrance 2008

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 bright spice, over earth and moss, and musk underneath. It turns over the day rather than fading, and it is among the shortest-lived things here. It carries more fruit than the rest of the catalogue.

The pyramid

top 0–15 min
heart 1–3 hr
base 3 hr +
Not enough has been recorded against this pyramid yet for anything to be confirmed or contradicted.

What is it similar to?

Nothing is recorded alongside this entry yet. Two signals, and they part in useful ways.
Closest, as Akin sees it
Ranked by AKIN: the resemblance graph first, the measured accords breaking ties, the note pyramid where neither reaches. Right about half the time, and the column says which signal answered.
What AKIN links it to
Bottles AKIN reads as resembling this one, strongest link first.
Yves Saint Laurent Elle elsewhere
Yves Saint Laurent Elle Shocking (Elle Eau de Toilette) elsewhere
Dior Midnight Poison elsewhere
Chanel Coco Mademoiselle elsewhere
Victorio & Lucchino Hechizo elsewhere
Fendi Fan di Fendi elsewhere
Calvin Klein Forbidden Euphoria elsewhere

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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Not yours yet

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