Zen Original
Galbanum, orange blossom, and bergamot set a green-floral opening that signals the era cleanly: bright, structured, unafraid of bitterness.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Aromatic50
- Yellow Floral50
- White Floral50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Orange Blossom
- Galbanum
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Mimosa
- Violet
- Narcissus
By the editors · 2 min readGalbanum, orange blossom, and bergamot set a green-floral opening that signals the era cleanly: bright, structured, unafraid of bitterness. The heart blooms across a wider span than most modern florals — jasmine, mimosa, violet, narcissus, rose — laid across each other with the layered patience the original Zen was known for.
The base is the chypre signature it earned its reputation on: oakmoss and sandalwood under amber and cedar, white musk holding the edges. It dries down dignified rather than seductive. Suited to formal hours, cooler air, the kind of wearer who prefers a fragrance that finishes more quietly than it starts.
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.
