Essenza di Zegna Intense
Bergamot slices open with a metallic citrus edge, quickly dusted by cardamom’s cool, green sparkle that scatters the orange brightness into something drier.
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.
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Orange
- Cardamom
- Bergamot
- Myrrh
- Vetiver
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot slices open with a metallic citrus edge, quickly dusted by cardamom’s cool, green sparkle that scatters the orange brightness into something drier. Myrrh slides in early, its resinous bittersweet smoke wrapping the spices and pulling the composition away from fresh territory into a muted, incense-tinged heart. Vetiver dominates the dry-down, splitting the difference between rooty earth and cigarette-paper dryness while amber spreads a thin, transparent glaze that keeps the base from turning austere; a clean white musk veil hovers just above skin. Over six hours it stays close, projecting no farther than shirt-collar, steadily losing the citrus until only a cool, smoky vetiver-amber skin scent remains. Office-safe and quietly confident, it works best under a blazer during crisp fall commutes or cool spring evenings when you want polish without statement.
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.