Love Explosion Special Edition
Love Explosion Special Edition is Zara's deliberate hybrid of Red Temptation and Rose Gourmand, and the parentage is audible in the construction.
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.
- Rose60
- Fresh50
- Sweet50
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Bitter Orange
- Peony
- Bergamot
- Amber
- Rose
- Praline
By the editors · 2 min readLove Explosion Special Edition is Zara's deliberate hybrid of Red Temptation and Rose Gourmand, and the parentage is audible in the construction. Bitter orange and bergamot open with sharp citrus before peony softens the transition toward floral. The heart resolves quickly into rose and praline over amber — the rose asserting floral identity while praline and amber deepen the sweetness into gourmand territory.
Vanilla and musk anchor the drydown with warmth and a mossy undertone that cuts through the sweetness at the close. Presented as an 80ml EDP, it performs better than the standard Zara EDT line. A commercial composition executed with care — accessible without being anonymous, and distinct enough from each parent to justify the blending exercise.
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.
