The Trained Nose

Armani Code Ultimate Femme against Luna Blossom

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

Armani Code Ultimate Femme

· lasts about 6.0 h
Nina Ricci

Luna Blossom

· lasts about 6.1 h

How close, and when

Across a whole wearing, Giorgio Armani Armani Code Ultimate Femme and Nina Ricci Luna Blossom are close. They are nearest during the opening and furthest apart in the drydown, which is the part a single figure would average away.

76% opening · 0–1 h
75% heart · 1–3 h
48% drydown · 3–8 h
Measured across all twenty-four facets, from the notes below — not from the families on the boxes. They share 1 of 14 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 — Pear
Armani Code Ultimate Femme only — Bitter Orange, Ginger
Luna Blossom only — Bergamot
heart
Armani Code Ultimate Femme only — Coffee, Jasmine Sambac, Orange Blossom
Luna Blossom only — Jasmine, Magnolia, Peony
base
Armani Code Ultimate Femme only — Exotic Woods, Vanilla Bean
Luna Blossom only — Cedar, Musk

Other comparisons worth reading

Pairs involving one of these two where the notes are fully recorded on both sides and AKIN has enough evidence for the pair to be worth reading.