The Trained Nose

Acqua di Giò Profondo Parfum against Acqua di Giò Profondo Lights

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.
Giorgio Armani

Acqua di Giò Profondo Parfum

Aquatic Fougère · lasts about 9.4 h

How close, and when

Across a whole wearing, Giorgio Armani Acqua di Giò Profondo Parfum and Giorgio Armani Acqua di Giò Profondo Lights are distantly related. They are nearest during the drydown and furthest apart in the heart, which is the part a single figure would average away.

24% opening · 0–1 h
17% heart · 1–3 h
37% 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 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
both — Green Mandarin
Acqua di Giò Profondo Lights only — Cardamom
heart
Acqua di Giò Profondo Parfum only — Mimosa
Acqua di Giò Profondo Lights only — Balsam Fir, Cypress, Lavender Extract, Mastic or Lentisque, Rosemary
base
both — Patchouli
Acqua di Giò Profondo Parfum only — Labdanum
Acqua di Giò Profondo Lights only — Cedar, Vetiver