Essenza di Zegna
Lemon and bergamot open with a clean, slightly bitter brightness — citrus that feels squeezed rather than candied.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Herbal50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Powdery
The note pyramid
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Cardamom
- Cardamom
- Vetiver
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readLemon and bergamot open with a clean, slightly bitter brightness — citrus that feels squeezed rather than candied. Cardamom slips in quickly, lending a dry, slightly soapy spice that sits well against the citrus and gives the composition a Mediterranean, freshly-shaved-skin quality through its first hour.
The base is restrained: a soft amber warmth and a clean musk, both pitched low so the citrus-spice impression carries most of the way through. Projection is modest, the development nearly linear, and the drydown stays close to the skin as a faintly warm, lightly aromatic veil. Overall it reads as a simple, well-mannered citrus-spicy designer composition built for daily wear and warm-weather use.
Scent twins
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