Zaad Expedition
Zaad Expedition arrives loudly: bergamot, grapefruit, and multiple orange forms crowd the top alongside thyme and apple, the opening bright and herbal simultaneously.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 5 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.
- Leather55
- Amber50
- Patchouli45
- Lavender
The note pyramid
- Apple
- Orange
- Thyme
- Grapefruit
- Mandarin Orange
- Bergamot
- Sage
By the editors · 2 min readZaad Expedition arrives loudly: bergamot, grapefruit, and multiple orange forms crowd the top alongside thyme and apple, the opening bright and herbal simultaneously. The heart pivots into spiced aromatics — black pepper, sage, and rosemary giving the composition a savory-green momentum, oak adding a dry structural backbone. Violet and rose keep it from becoming purely culinary. The base is substantial: leather and vetiver anchor a cedar-patchouli-amber foundation that reads outdoorsy rather than Oriental. Sillage is real and persistent; this is not a polite fragrance. Complex and assertive, Zaad Expedition asks for room to breathe and rewards it with clear development from top to base.
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.