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La Nuit de l'Homme against Guess Seductive Homme Blue

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.
Yves Saint Laurent

La Nuit de l'Homme

Spicy Woody · lasts about 5.1 h
Read the entry Centre the map here
Guess

Guess Seductive Homme Blue

· lasts about 7.6 h
Read the entry Centre the map here

How close, and when

Across a whole wearing, Yves Saint Laurent La Nuit de l'Homme and Guess Guess Seductive Homme Blue are distantly related. They are nearest during the heart and furthest apart in the drydown, which is the part a single figure would average away.

31% opening · 0–1 h
35% heart · 1–3 h
24% 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 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 — Cardamom
Guess Seductive Homme Blue only — Black Pepper, Caviar
heart
La Nuit de l'Homme only — Bergamot, Lavender, Virginia Cedar
Guess Seductive Homme Blue only — Geranium
base
La Nuit de l'Homme only — Caraway, Vetiver
Guess Seductive Homme Blue only — Cashmirwood, Moss, Sand

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.