Zen 2000
Bergamot opens, but only briefly — within minutes the heart takes over.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Woody50
- Iris50
- Violet50
- Powdery
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Oakmoss
- Iris
- Violet
- Rose
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot opens, but only briefly — within minutes the heart takes over. Oakmoss meets iris and violet over a soft rose, an unusually green-powdery pairing that gives the middle a hushed, almost antique character.
The dry-down is patchouli and musk anchored by an unusual bamboo accent, keeping the woody base from sliding into anything too sweet. It plays as a transitional piece in the Zen line — neither the calm-water classicism of the original nor the heavy ambers of later flankers. Suited to fall, to people who want a fragrance that feels considered rather than projecting.
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.
