The Trained Nose

Love against Love Eau 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.
Chloé

Love

· lasts about 7.3 h

How close, and when

Across a whole wearing, Chloé Love and Chloé Love Eau Intense are very close. They are nearest during the heart and furthest apart in the drydown, which is the part a single figure would average away.

90% opening · 0–1 h
91% heart · 1–3 h
79% drydown · 3–8 h
Measured across all twenty-four facets, from the notes below — not from the families on the boxes. They share 4 of 13 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
Love only — African Orange Flower, Pink Pepper
Love Eau Intense only — Heliotrope, Iris
heart
both — Hyacinth, Lilac, Wisteria
Love only — Heliotrope, Iris
base
both — Musk
Love only — Rice
Love Eau Intense only — Peru Balsam, Vanilla