Zahra
Zahra — Arabic for flower — opens with the brightness of black currant pressed against green notes, a slightly tart and vegetal combination that grounds the subsequent floral phase before it arrives.
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.
- Rose70
- Fresh50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Green Notes
- Black Currant
- Aldehydes
- Saffron
- Saffron
- Rose
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readZahra — Arabic for flower — opens with the brightness of black currant pressed against green notes, a slightly tart and vegetal combination that grounds the subsequent floral phase before it arrives. The opening has a modest ozonic quality, a suggestion of sky rather than garden.
Saffron and rose enter together in the heart alongside an aldehydic shimmer that lifts the accord into something more classical — this is oriental perfumery with a nod toward the French floral tradition. The aldehydes are restrained, present as a textural element rather than the dominant signature they occupy in early Chanels. The base is simple: musk and agarwood settle into a quiet, skin-close drydown. Zahra is an understated composition that rewards close attention — suited to a wearer who prefers intimacy over projection.
Scent twins
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