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
- Aromatic50
- Yellow Floral50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Peony
- Bergamot
- Ylang-Ylang
- Honeysuckle
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readN°04 Spring Blossom Cascade is part of Zara's 2021 collaboration with Jo Malone — a polished floral built around peony and ylang-ylang with the brand's typical clarity.
Bergamot lifts the opening with a clean citrus shimmer; peony arrives almost simultaneously, fresh and slightly dewy, the cascade of the title made literal. Honeysuckle and ylang-ylang in the heart deepen the floral without going heady — the ylang here is restrained, more nectar than tropical bloom.
Sandalwood quiets it all in the drydown, creamy and warm without weight. The arc holds together for a few hours, then settles into skin. A clean, grown-up spring floral that wears like a white linen shirt.
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.
