Ciara
Ciara is a 1970s oriental chypre that predates the decade's obsession with lighter forms.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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.
- Floral55
- Smoky55
- Sweet50
- Vanilla
The note pyramid
- Neroli
- Raspberry
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Orris
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
By the editors · 2 min readCiara is a 1970s oriental chypre that predates the decade's obsession with lighter forms. Neroli, raspberry, lemon, and bergamot open with a complex citrus-fruit-floral accord that already suggests depth. Orris, jasmine, and ylang-ylang in the heart form a lush, slightly powdery floral core — the orris providing chalk and root, jasmine its richness, ylang-ylang a creamy tropical quality. The base is the architectural statement: incense and leather give dark animalic depth, opoponax — a sweet myrrh-like resin — adding warm balsamic complexity, cedar structural dryness, vanilla bridging everything. A serious vintage oriental that repays patience.
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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.
