7.0 Zara
Mint and violet leaf open cool and crisp, a combination that reads as freshly crushed greens rather than candy-mint sweetness.
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.
- Lavender70
- Musky55
- Aromatic50
- Aquatic
The note pyramid
- Mint
- Violet Leaf
- Lavender
- Geranium
- Sandalwood
- Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readMint and violet leaf open cool and crisp, a combination that reads as freshly crushed greens rather than candy-mint sweetness. The violet leaf adds a subtle metallic-green quality that prevents the opening from veering into toothpaste territory.
Lavender and geranium form a classic aromatic heart—clean, slightly herbal, with geranium's green-rose character softening lavender's more assertive edge. The base—sandalwood, cedar, musk—is a reliable fougère close, providing warmth and skin-feel without weight or heaviness.
A competent everyday masculine, best in spring or summer when something uncomplicated, clean, and easy-wearing is precisely what the situation calls for.
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.




