Zangvil
Zangvil opens with ginger cutting through orange and neroli, giving a warm citrus-spice clarity.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 accords.
Every perfume in Sillage is represented as a distribution across canonical accord slugs — a lingua franca for scent. Two fragrances with overlapping fingerprints are scent-twins, even if they share no literal note.
- Honey90
- Floral90
- Yellow Floral60
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Neroli
- Orange
- Galbanum
- Jasmine
- Lily
- Honey
By the editors · 2 min readZangvil opens with ginger cutting through orange and neroli, giving a warm citrus-spice clarity. Galbanum adds a sharp green undercurrent that keeps the opening from reading as purely soft or sweet. The combination is brisk and dry before the heart develops.
Jasmine, rose, narcissus, and lily form a rich floral core, given unusual depth by honey threading through the whole composition. The honey is recognisable but not cloying — it sits alongside the florals as an equal participant rather than a sweetener.
Vetiver grounds the base with an earthy dryness, while vanilla and musk soften the landing. The result is a honeyed floral with strong botanical character and genuine complexity across all three stages.
Scent twins
Factual metadata (name, house, year, notes) is seeded from public datasets. The editorial reading and scent fingerprint are written by Claude against our house style — none of it is scraped prose. Read our methodology.
