The Trained Nose

Euphoria against Euphoria Intense

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

Euphoria

· lasts about 9.1 h
Calvin Klein

Euphoria Intense

· lasts about 7.0 h

How close, and when

Across a whole wearing, Calvin Klein Euphoria and Calvin Klein Euphoria Intense are distantly related. They are nearest during the heart and furthest apart in the opening, which is the part a single figure would average away.

27% opening · 0–1 h
54% heart · 1–3 h
45% drydown · 3–8 h
Measured across all twenty-four facets, from the notes below — not from the families on the boxes. They share 0 of 12 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
Euphoria only — Persimmon, Pomegranate
Euphoria Intense only — Blackcurrant
heart
Euphoria only — Black Orchid, Champaca, Lotus
Euphoria Intense only — Orchid
base
Euphoria only — Amber, Black Violet, Mahogany, Whipped Cream
Euphoria Intense only — Patchouli