Accord No 2 Oriental
Opens with a bright, slightly green rose supported by lily of the valley and geranium — an herbal-floral start that softens quickly into the unusual heart of chocolate and walnut.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody50
- Nutty
The note pyramid
- Lily of the Valley
- Geranium
- Rose
- Walnut
- Hawthorn
- Chocolate
By the editors · 2 min readOpens with a bright, slightly green rose supported by lily of the valley and geranium — an herbal-floral start that softens quickly into the unusual heart of chocolate and walnut. The chocolate reads dry and slightly bitter against the hawthorn's tartness rather than as a confectionary accord, giving this middle register an earthy sweetness that distinguishes it from ordinary oriental florals. The base is a familiar warm cushion of tonka, vanilla, amber, and cedar — soft, rounded, and quietly persistent. Among Zara's Accord line, this one earns its name: the floral and gourmand registers are genuinely balanced rather than one drowning the other.
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.
