Zen White Heat Edition
Raspberry and black currant set the opening — fruit-forward, almost candied, with bergamot pulling the sugar down a notch.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Amber55
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Raspberry
- Black Currant
- Bergamot
- Magnolia
- Jasmine
- Peony
- Freesia
By the editors · 2 min readRaspberry and black currant set the opening — fruit-forward, almost candied, with bergamot pulling the sugar down a notch. The middle is a bouquet you'd recognize from a department-store launch event: magnolia, jasmine, peony, freesia, rose, all working in the same register without much hierarchy.
The dry-down is where the flanker earns its name — patchouli and amber over sandalwood, with white musk doing the cleanup. It reads more confident than the original Zen, less meditative and more ready-to-go. Pleasant in cool air, where the amber doesn't smother. Suited to evenings, dinners, the kind of room that flatters a lot of perfume at once.
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.
