The Trained Nose

Illusions Noires Si Lolita Eau de Minuit against Si Lolita

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.
Lolita Lempicka

Si Lolita

· lasts about 7.3 h

How close, and when

Across a whole wearing, Lolita Lempicka Illusions Noires Si Lolita Eau de Minuit and Lolita Lempicka Si Lolita are very close. They are nearest during the opening and furthest apart in the heart, which is the part a single figure would average away.

87% opening · 0–1 h
76% heart · 1–3 h
82% drydown · 3–8 h
Measured across all twenty-four facets, from the notes below — not from the families on the boxes. They share 5 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
both — Mandarin Orange
Illusions Noires Si Lolita Eau de Minuit only — Pink Pepper
Si Lolita only — Bergamot
heart
both — Heliotrope, Sweet Pea
Si Lolita only — Elemi Resin, Pink Pepper, Wallflower
base
both — Amber, Patchouli
Illusions Noires Si Lolita Eau de Minuit only — Vanilla Absolute
Si Lolita only — Elemi, Tonka Bean