The Trained Nose

Dior Addict Eau Sensuelle against Addict To Life

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.

How close, and when

Across a whole wearing, Dior Dior Addict Eau Sensuelle and Dior Addict To Life are very close. They are nearest during the drydown and furthest apart in the opening, which is the part a single figure would average away.

68% opening · 0–1 h
91% heart · 1–3 h
97% drydown · 3–8 h
Measured across all twenty-four facets, from the notes below — not from the families on the boxes. They share 2 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
Dior Addict Eau Sensuelle only — Rose
Addict To Life only — Peach, Pomegranate, Raspberry
heart
both — Jasmine
Addict To Life only — Lily of the Valley, Rose
base
both — Musk
Dior Addict Eau Sensuelle only — Cedar
Addict To Life only — Virginia Cedar