Zaad Arctic
Zaad Arctic opens with grapefruit and bergamot alongside water notes and ice — a citrus-aquatic signature that reads as clean and cool without being generic.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 4 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.
- Amber50
- Marine30
- Ozonic25
- Salty
The note pyramid
- Ice
- Water Notes
- Grapefruit
- Bergamot
- Black Tea
- Elemi
- Cypress
By the editors · 2 min readZaad Arctic opens with grapefruit and bergamot alongside water notes and ice — a citrus-aquatic signature that reads as clean and cool without being generic. The heart distinguishes itself: black tea introduces a dry, tannic character, with geranium adding a rosy-green facet and cypress and elemi bringing a resinous, slightly camphoraceous depth that sets this apart from standard aquatic masculines.
The base anchors in oakmoss, amber, and cedar — a classically structured masculine drydown with chypre bones. The elemi-to-oakmoss progression is the most interesting movement; the Arctic branding somewhat undersells the earthy complexity that develops on skin. By perfumer Clément Gavarry.
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.
