The Trained Nose

Eternity Summer 2017 against Eternity Summer 2020

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.
Calvin Klein

Eternity Summer 2017

· lasts about 8.8 h
Calvin Klein

Eternity Summer 2020

· lasts about 6.2 h

How close, and when

Across a whole wearing, Calvin Klein Eternity Summer 2017 and Calvin Klein Eternity Summer 2020 are distantly related. They are nearest during the drydown and furthest apart in the opening, which is the part a single figure would average away.

33% opening · 0–1 h
39% heart · 1–3 h
62% 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 15 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 — Bergamot
Eternity Summer 2017 only — Desert Rose, Star Anise
Eternity Summer 2020 only — Rose, Violet Leaf
heart
Eternity Summer 2017 only — Osmanthus, Saffron
Eternity Summer 2020 only — Coconut Nectar, Ginger, Jasmine Sambac
base
both — Musk, Vetiver
Eternity Summer 2017 only — Frankincense, Sandalwood
Eternity Summer 2020 only — Guaiac Wood