Zafar
Black pepper and rose open Zafar in an unexpected pairing — the spice sharpening the floral rather than clashing with it.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 16 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.
- Oud75
- Smoky65
- Warm Spicy60
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Rose
- Laotian Oud
- Moroccan Neroli
- White Flowers
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper and rose open Zafar in an unexpected pairing — the spice sharpening the floral rather than clashing with it. Moroccan neroli enters the heart alongside Laotian oud: white flower and dark wood in contrast, giving the composition its central tension. Frankincense and Oud Burmi deepen the base; Haitian vetiver adds an earthy dimension that prevents the incense from becoming airless. Two distinct oud materials — one in the heart, one in the base — are handled with enough restraint that they read as complementary rather than redundant. Zafar is a confident oriental that knows exactly what it is.
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.
