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Vibrant Leather Summer against Cedrat 37 Berlin

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

Vibrant Leather Summer

· lasts about 3.5 h
Read the entry Centre the map here
Le Labo

Cedrat 37 Berlin

· lasts about 6.8 h
Read the entry Centre the map here

How close, and when

Across a whole wearing, Zara Vibrant Leather Summer and Le Labo Cedrat 37 Berlin 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.

96% opening · 0–1 h
62% heart · 1–3 h
1% 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 6 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
Vibrant Leather Summer only — Bergamot
Cedrat 37 Berlin only — Citron
heart
both — Ginger
base
Vibrant Leather Summer only — Cedar
Cedrat 37 Berlin only — Ambergris, 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.