Oud Zanzibar
Melon and bergamot open things with a fresh, slightly watery sweetness — the melon is ripe without being candy-like, and lemon keeps the whole opening airy.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Fruity60
- Fresh50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Melon
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Magnolia
- Jasmine
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readMelon and bergamot open things with a fresh, slightly watery sweetness — the melon is ripe without being candy-like, and lemon keeps the whole opening airy. It reads aquatic-adjacent before the heart even arrives.
Magnolia and jasmine surface mid-development, adding a soft white-floral quality that stays light rather than heady. Patchouli and sandalwood in the base give just enough earthiness to anchor the composition, preventing it from drifting into generic freshness territory.
The result is a clean, transparent floral-fruity with aquatic undertones. It wears closer to the skin as it dries down, shifting from fresh-bright to quietly woody. Well-suited for warm weather.
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.
