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Amber Oud Rouge against Baccarat Rouge 540 Extrait de Parfum

One number per era rather than one number overall — two fragrances can be near-identical at the opening and different things by the evening, and an average hides exactly that.
Al Haramain

Amber Oud Rouge

· lasts about 10.7 h
Read the entry Centre the map here
Maison Francis Kurkdjian

Baccarat Rouge 540 Extrait de Parfum

· lasts about 12.2 h
Read the entry Centre the map here

How close, and when

Across a whole wearing, Al Haramain Amber Oud Rouge and Maison Francis Kurkdjian Baccarat Rouge 540 Extrait de Parfum are very close. They are nearest during the opening and furthest apart in the drydown, which is the part a single figure would average away.

86% opening · 0–1 h
83% heart · 1–3 h
78% drydown · 3–8 h
Measured across all twenty-four facets, from the notes below — not from the families on the boxes. They share 3 of 10 materials, which is worth holding beside the figures: a pair can share almost nothing and still converge, because different materials can smell of the same things.

What AKIN predicts

AKIN predicts these two are alike, and the evidence behind that is substantial.

Two signals sit on this page and are never averaged: what the note pyramids measure these two to share, and what AKIN’s resemblance graph predicts. Where they part, that is the finding rather than a fault.

The pyramids, side by side

Compared by material rather than by spelling, so a note recorded two ways is not counted as a difference.
top
both — Saffron
Baccarat Rouge 540 Extrait de Parfum only — Bitter Almond
heart
Amber Oud Rouge only — Jasmine
Baccarat Rouge 540 Extrait de Parfum only — Egyptian Jasmine, Virginia Cedar
base
both — Ambergris, Musk
Amber Oud Rouge only — White Cedar Extract
Baccarat Rouge 540 Extrait de Parfum only — Ambroxan, Cashmeran

Other comparisons worth reading

Pairs involving one of these two where the notes are fully recorded on both sides and AKIN has enough evidence for the pair to be worth reading.