Femme
Femme leads with bergamot — fresh, slightly green, a clean opener that sets an uncomplicated tone.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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
- Balsamic50
- Sweet50
- Floral
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Orchid
- Vanilla
- Peony
- Sandalwood
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readFemme leads with bergamot — fresh, slightly green, a clean opener that sets an uncomplicated tone. The heart pivots to orchid and peony, two flowers that share a soft, slightly powdered register without the heavier projection of jasmine or rose. The composition stays cool and polite through the floral phase.
The base settles into sandalwood and vanilla over musk, arriving at the comfortable, slightly creamy signature Zara's feminine line returns to repeatedly. It is not complex, but complexity is not the point: Femme is a reliable, wearable everyday floral with just enough sweetness at the drydown to feel personal rather than generic.
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.
