The Trained Nose

Applejuice against Daisy

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.
Zara

Applejuice

· lasts about 6.1 h
Marc Jacobs

Daisy

· lasts about 7.0 h

How close, and when

Across a whole wearing, Zara Applejuice and Marc Jacobs Daisy are related, not interchangeable. They are nearest during the opening and furthest apart in the drydown, which is the part a single figure would average away.

71% opening · 0–1 h
63% heart · 1–3 h
59% drydown · 3–8 h
Measured across all twenty-four facets, from the notes below — not from the families on the boxes. They share 3 of 15 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
Applejuice only — Apple, Grapefruit, Orange
Daisy only — Blood Grapefruit, Strawberry, Violet Leaf
heart
both — Jasmine, Violet
Applejuice only — Peony, Rose
Daisy only — Gardenia
base
both — Musk
Applejuice only — Cedar, Sandalwood
Daisy only — Vanilla

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.