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Unnamed Byredo 2016

7.4 / 10 137 Ratings

A limited perfume by Byredo for women and men, released in 2016. The scent is spicy-green. It is being marketed by Manzanita Capital.
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Main accords

Spicy

Green

Fresh

Floral

Fruity

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Pink pepper Gin

Gin

Heart Notes

Violet

Iris

Base Notes

Fir balsam

Tree moss

Perfumer

Jérôme Epinette

Ratings

Scent

7.4137 Ratings

Longevity

7.0118 Ratings

Sillage

6.4116 Ratings

Bottle

7.7136 Ratings

Value for money

6.050 Ratings

Submitted by Michael · last update on 06/10/2025.

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Interesting Facts

This fragrance does not have an official name. Instead, letters are included which allow an individual naming of the bottle.

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Reviews

8 in-depth fragrance descriptions

03/31/2023

5Scent 8Longevity 5Sillage

Kurai
388 Reviews

Kurai

3

Blank page

"You know what? Let's not name this one at all! Hear me out, you will love it. What we're gonna do is we add a sheet of letter stickers. So the customers can put whatever name on the label themselves. Customization, man, customization! That's the magic word. They will love it. Plus it will save us the branding efforts. Isn't it brilliant?"

So, the marketing department is run by interns. Hopefully more professionalism went into the fragrance itself.

Well, let's say it is not a complete failure. What I got is a violet powder carried by a fresh musk. Bits of iris enhance the violet's powderiness. Tiny green accents appear sometimes and in the end a little woodiness. Other than that, nothing really stands out. It is a quiet scent, easy-going but also unexciting. I guess they extended the "blank page" idea into the fragrance itself. Only they did not add any DIY components to spice up the scent. Now THAT would have been a concept, Byredo!

Bottom line, the effort that went into this fragrance - if any - did not pay off and the whole thing lacks creativity. If the brand does not take its concepts seriously, why should we?

06/23/2023

8Scent 7Longevity 6Sillage

Acc
16 Reviews

Acc

1

Boozy but naive

Unnamed was a surprise for me. I blind bought it at a nice discount.

Started as a sweet summer cocktail, boozy but plush. Alcoholic vibe is very well balanced. You get a nice accord of florals staying behind.

Good performance for 2 hours and mellows nicely. I liked the transition of notes. The drydown is reminiscent of top notes, there is that ambery byredo dna and some fruity accord.

A funny fragrance not really competing to be anything at all. Good for a daily and simple use. I liked that casual attitude.

09/23/2016

7Scent 6Longevity 6Sillage

Turandot
840 Reviews

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Turandot

Top Review 32

Can, but doesn't have to.

The scent doesn't tempt one to judge it by its name. Or does it? After all, I was just considering how I would use the attached letters to give it a worthy frame. So unfinished, that's just not acceptable.

However, I realize that this isn't entirely wrong, because Unnamed really doesn't tell a story. Unnamed is reserved, clean, herbaceous, cool, and reminds me of an autumn walk in the fog. It's not the golden October that is the theme here, but rather fog that muffles sounds and gives even banal suburbs a mysterious aura.

Yet, as fleeting as impressions during a foggy walk appear and disappear, so subtle and transparent Unnamed also shows itself on my skin. A relatively short, sprightly opening leads into a gentle and calm heart note. I really liked this during the test, and since I also have the Rose from No Man's Land on my wish list from Byredo, I wanted to compare. However, Unnamed scores significantly lower in that regard. Even though the base aligns with my preferences for cool and rather herbaceous notes. All in all, the scent just lacks expression for me. It conveys a feeling of gray everyday life. Nothing bad happens, nothing great happens, everything fits, but it doesn't stick in the memory. The scent fades quietly, and the longevity is satisfactory for an "everyday scent." I wouldn't push Unnamed out of my collection and might wear it from time to time, but I'm not sure if the perfume wouldn't simply fade into oblivion.

The scent without a name doesn't need one. For me, Unnamed becomes "No Name," and "Rose of No Man's Land" remains on the wish list.

12/20/2017

8Scent 10Longevity 7Sillage

RobGordon
59 Reviews

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RobGordon

Top Review 21

The Cemetery Violet of the Nameless.

I spend significantly more time on field tests than on writing comments. I would have completely refrained from this one if "unnamed" did not appear in a completely false light for me here.

And this already starts with the typical side effects of color psychology. Fragrances that are not colored generally perform poorly in terms of performance assessment. And this one is crystal clear like a triple-distilled gin, but it does not smell like such or juniper. My not insignificant, niche gin collection would not contradict me here.

The concept of tacking cyclamen aldehyde and other floral notes onto needles is far from new. This was already done in the early 90s, for example, with "Adidas Adventure." The second major hit of the sports brand before it sank in the ocean of meaningless shower gel topics. Just in the context of the time. Fresh-focused, with all sorts of kitchen herbs.

If Jérôme Epinette excels at anything from my perspective, it is juggling his standard accords, paying attention to balance, and conjuring up slim, cool, and simultaneously highly modern compositions.

A bit heretically, I had "Unnamed" face off against "Oud Satin Mood" a few days ago. "Unnamed" was still noticeably present on the skin after 15 hours [!] compared to its competitor. It had significantly more projection in the first hour at temperatures around 0 degrees. The same phenomenon with "Mojave Ghost." It is also significantly underestimated here due to its performance.

The actual art of dealing with this fragrance is to test and wear it in the right season to tame what is sold here as violet. Unnamed clearly prefers it cold. This not only significantly affects longevity. Such an approach also keeps the persistent violet and the indirectly associated sweetness in check and allows it to appear from the outside for hours in a balanced floral-aromatic balsamic, softly tannic green, without touching or attempting a grass and stem theme. A nice side effect is that by changing wearing habits, it is able to conjure a little light into the dreary season while everyone else seeks solace in vanilla-spice baths.

I completely understand if the ladies are not thrilled with "Unnamed"; I also see at home that it does not work on women. This "unisex curse," which is spreading in the niche, constantly creates expectations from all genders that hardly any fragrance can meet. I see this one as a continuation of the woody-floral-aromatics that were highly regarded in the 90s and were transcribed into the 21st century without taking any prisoners. But clearly in the men's department. The once clearly accompanying spice has given way to a very subtle powderiness. One does not smell a listed iris note prominently, but it at least knows how to dust a little, like some geraniums I have had under my nose.

This means that healthy self-confidence is not a disadvantage for us men here. A fragrance for the business everyday in fine attire. Not for a date, nor would "unnamed" want to watch a football match in the stadium. The fragrance rewards this with an innovative aromatic profile and, through the "limited edition" marketing, with just barely affordable exclusivity, provided one manages to snag one without seriously risking crossing the identical scent trail of a third party.

The actual criticism of this fragrance from my perspective is that it is quite ungrateful to comment on. I would have liked to conduct a few layer experiments with "Black Citrus," but unfortunately, I ran out of the test material of the latter. A hint of birch tar would probably position the fragrance more clearly. So it remains a completely nameless one for most.

02/21/2017

7Scent 5Longevity 4Sillage

loewenherz
917 Reviews

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loewenherz

Top Review 20

Brünnhilde. Gerhilde. Grimgerde. Helmwige. Ortlinde. Roßweiße. Schwertleite. Siegrune. Waltraute.

Just a few examples of names that could have been chosen for this fragrance - instead of leaving it nameless. The 'suggestions' are of course not entirely randomly selected - they are the names of the nine Valkyries from Richard Wagner's introductory opera of the same name in his legendary Ring of the Nibelung. Essentially, Wagner is to blame. It is thanks to him and his portrayal of the Valkyries through singers who simply require a certain resonance body to deliver the demanded singing appropriately, that the term 'Valkyrie' today mostly evokes the image of a thunderous war woman of imposing stature, wearing a horned helmet and an iron breastplate. The use of the 'Ride of the Valkyries' in the film 'Apocalypse Now' - the piece accompanies the attack on a Vietnamese village by US Army helicopters - did the rest.

In fact, the Valkyrie in her tradition from Norse mythology is not like that. Valkyries were the beautiful, female spirit beings who selected the honorably fallen - the so-called 'Einherjar' - on the battlefield and guided them to Valhalla, Odin's legendary hall of fame located in Asgard, which has five hundred and forty gates - each wide enough for eight hundred warriors to pass through side by side. The northern lights were interpreted as the reflection of moonlight on the armors and shields of those Einherjar who were led home by the Valkyries to Odin's hall. Their names are also different from Wagner's; the thirteen preserved in the Old Icelandic Edda are: Geirölul, Göll, Herfjötur, Hildr, Hlökk, Hrist, Mist, Radgrídr, Randgrídr, Reginleifr, Skeggjöld, Skögull, and Thrúdr - Byredo could have chosen any of these names.

Unnamed captures the essence of those Nordic mythical Valkyries - exalted, shimmering, translucent shieldmaidens with winged helmets who carry the honorably fallen from the battlefield homeward - ethereal, cool, and aloof on one hand - and protective, warm, and nurturing on the other. With gin (therefore: juniper berry) and violet (or its root), Jérôme Epinette selects two of the most reliable accords for coolness and distance, achieving a coldly glowing powderiness reminiscent of northern lights on jagged armors. Yet beyond that, Unnamed's burst of green herbaceousness speaks of comfort and healing and of homecoming - so delicate, fine, and quiet - and is so much more the gentle smile of the Valkyrie who gathers the fallen from the battlefield than that impressive vocal power that Wagner gives to his nine armored thunder women.

Conclusion: a calm fragrance with a fascinating journey from cool to moderately warm. Very restrained and quiet - and therefore probably not one that will be remembered.

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