Laboratori Di Saponi In Roma
True to its title — the conceit here is the smell of an old Roman soap shop.
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.
- Citrus55
- Aromatic50
- Floral50
- Fresh Spicy
The note pyramid
- Orange
- Lemon
- Mandarin Orange
- Bergamot
- Wild Berries
- Reseda
- Freesia
By the editors · 2 min readTrue to its title — the conceit here is the smell of an old Roman soap shop. The opening is a citrus chord (bergamot, lemon, mandarin, orange) pitched bright and slightly powdery, like cold-pressed peel rubbed on cool marble. It reads less like a perfume's lead-in than like a soap's first lather.
The heart turns floral but stays restrained: rose and freesia tinted with a wash of wild berries and reseda — green-floral, not sugary. The drydown is the apothecary's back room: cedar, patchouli, and amber, dry and resinous, anchoring the soap-fresh top in something woodier and more lasting. A surprisingly considered composition for the price point, and one of Zara's better citrus-floral hybrids.
Scent twins
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