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La Nuit Trésor against La Nuit Tresor Edition Limitee

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.
Lancôme

La Nuit Trésor

· lasts about 8.1 h
Read the entry Centre the map here
Lancôme

La Nuit Tresor Edition Limitee

· lasts about 7.8 h
Read the entry Centre the map here

How close, and when

Across a whole wearing, Lancôme La Nuit Trésor and Lancôme La Nuit Tresor Edition Limitee are all but the same thing. They hold the same distance from each other all the way through, rather than converging or parting as the hours pass.

100% opening · 0–1 h
100% heart · 1–3 h
99% drydown · 3–8 h
Measured across all twenty-four facets, from the notes below — not from the families on the boxes. They share 15 of 18 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 — Bergamot, Pear, Tangerine
heart
both — Black Rose, Passion Fruit, Strawberry
La Nuit Trésor only — Vanilla Orchid
La Nuit Tresor Edition Limitee only — Orchid
base
both — Caramel, Coffee, Coumarin, Incense, Licorice, Lychee, Papyrus, Praline, Vanilla
La Nuit Trésor only — Patchouli

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.