Metallic

What it is

An effect rather than a material, produced by aldehydes, certain musks and violet leaf. Deliberate, though it is often read as a flaw.

What it smells like

Cool and sharp, like coins held in a warm hand or the smell of blood. It gives a fragrance an edge and stops it reading as soft, and it is among the least widely liked qualities in perfumery.

How strongly it is worn

The average strength this accord is listed at, where 100 means it dominates the fragrance.

53 / 100

What builds it

How much more often than the catalogue average. 1.0x would be chance, so these are the things that genuinely travel with it rather than the things that are simply common.

Accords it sits beside

Same measure, with its own family filtered out. Saying woody turns up with oud is a restatement, not a finding.

When it is worn

Against the average fragrance here. The line marks that average, so a bar past it means this is worn in that season or setting more than most.

Houses that use it most

Counted across the fragrances here, which reflects what we cover as much as what a house makes.

Rasasi (5), Al Haramain (4), Montale (4), Paco Rabanne (4), Initio Parfums Prives (3), Lattafa (3).