Zanzibar
Zanzibar opens green-floral — petitgrain and basil knit around freesia in a way that reads herbal first, floral second.
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.
- Vanilla60
- Fresh50
- Herbal50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Petitgrain
- Basil
- Freesia
- Jasmine
- Lily
- Orange Blossom
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readZanzibar opens green-floral — petitgrain and basil knit around freesia in a way that reads herbal first, floral second. There's a bright, stem-snapped quality to the top before the perfume softens.
The heart is a white-floral bouquet: jasmine, lily, orange blossom, and rose layered for fullness rather than for any single dominant flower. It bridges into the base on warm-skin terms.
Tonka, sandalwood, and vanilla anchor the drydown in soft-oriental territory — sweet but not gourmand, more skin-and-sun than dessert. Musk smooths the closing hours into something quiet and intimate. It is a warm-weather floral that tilts feminine without leaning sharp.
Scent twins
In this family
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