The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Aquatic50
- Ozonic50
- Leather50
- Green
The note pyramid
- Grapefruit
- Violet Leaves
- Papyrus
By the editors · 2 min readA Jo Malone collaboration, Ancestral Papyrus opens with grapefruit — clean and acidic, cut short by violet leaves that introduce a sharp, green, slightly dry quality. The transition is abrupt and intentional: this is not a citrus fragrance that drifts into florals, but one that pivots immediately toward the vegetal and dry.
Papyrus forms the base — reedy, fibrous, faintly earthy, a note that reads like old paper and river grass simultaneously. It gives the fragrance an archival, intellectual quality unusual in Zara's catalogue. Best for those who want a green-woody rather than a sweet or floral signature.
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.
