Zero
Perfumer Fanny Bal built Zero (2022) around a single conceit: motion made visible.
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.
- Woody55
- Fresh50
- Aromatic50
- Green
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Haitian Vetiver
- Rose Oxide
- Varnish Accord
- Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readPerfumer Fanny Bal built Zero (2022) around a single conceit: motion made visible. The opening is a sliver of bergamot, almost a citrus afterthought, before a varnish accord steps forward — sharp, slightly chemical, the smell of a freshly lacquered surface — paired with rose oxide for metallic floral lift.
From there it slides into Haitian vetiver and cedar, with cashmeran giving the wood a warm, slightly fuzzed-out radiance. White musk closes the trail in an almost laundered way. The structure is deliberately spare, near-linear, more about texture than narrative, and reads as one of the more contemporary, design-forward entries in the house's catalogue rather than a development in the traditional pyramid sense.
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.
