The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 7 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.
- Herbal50
- Aromatic50
- Rose50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Orange
- Geranium
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readPart of Zara's Vibrant Cities series in collaboration with Jo Malone, Gracefully Madrid is a deliberately simple citrus cologne. Orange opens it cleanly; a brief geranium heart softens the brightness without deepening it meaningfully. The dry-down is a quiet skin musk that fades within a few hours and leaves almost nothing behind.
Its ambition is transparency rather than longevity or complexity. The Jo Malone design philosophy is visible in its restraint — a fragrance that announces itself once and then retreats. Suited to warm days when something light and unobtrusive fits the mood.
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.