Mediterranean
Mediterranean occupies the warm, unhurried end of Elizabeth Arden's fragrance spectrum — a name that promises sun and ease, and a composition that largely delivers.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Fruity55
- Fresh50
- Aquatic50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Plum
- Peach
- Magnolia
- Sandalwood
- Amber
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readMediterranean occupies the warm, unhurried end of Elizabeth Arden's fragrance spectrum — a name that promises sun and ease, and a composition that largely delivers. Plum and peach in the opening are ripe rather than sharp, and mandarin adds a citrus brightness that extends the top longer than either stone fruit alone would manage. Magnolia is the heart's single voice — creamy and slightly lemon-watery, characteristic of the flower — and it transitions cleanly into sandalwood and amber below. The dry-down is straightforward warm-woody: nothing inventive, but nothing out of place. A soft, accessible summer fragrance that wears closer to the skin than it projects.
Scent twins
In this family
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