The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Fresh50
- Aromatic50
- Lactonic50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Fig Leaf
- Grapefruit
- Tangerine
- Petitgrain
- Milk
- Tobacco Leaf
- Iris
By the editors · 2 min readPart of Zara's Silent Flowers collection composed by Jo Malone, Balade De Figuer evokes sun-dried Provençal fig groves with unusual specificity. The opening deploys grapefruit and tangerine alongside raw fig leaf — tart, green, and slightly sappy — establishing a tension between the fruit and the plant. The heart deepens into ripe fig pulp, petitgrain bringing a woody-green continuity, iris adding a cool earthy powder, and tobacco leaf and milk together lending a parched, pastoral warmth.
The base of Haitian vetiver and muscenone provides a clean, airy trail that holds for several hours. This is among Zara's most considered compositions — complex enough to reveal something new at each stage, and representative of what the Jo Malone collaboration brought to the house's upper tier.
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.
