Acqua e Zucchero
The name translates to "water and sugar," and that simplicity is deceptive.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Vanilla55
- White Floral50
- Woody50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Vanilla
- Orange Blossom
By the editors · 2 min readThe name translates to "water and sugar," and that simplicity is deceptive. This opens with a sheer veil of orange blossom that feels more like sunlight filtering through petals than the heavy indolic blooms common in perfumery. The citrus aspect stays quiet, almost implied rather than stated outright.
What follows is vanilla that reads as soft skin rather than dessert. It mingles with the floral transparency to create something that hovers between clean and sweet without landing firmly in either camp. The overall effect is remarkably linear, maintaining its gentle brightness for hours.
This suits those drawn to uncomplicated warmth, the kind that works in summer heat without turning cloying. It occupies a small, specific territory: sweet but not gourmand, floral but not romantic, present but never loud.
Scent twins
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