Orchid 2019
The earlier iteration of this Zara orchid composition shares the same three-note structure as its 2021 successor — bergamot opens, orchid anchors the heart, vanilla closes.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Vanilla70
- Aromatic50
- Sweet50
- Powdery
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Orchid
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readThe earlier iteration of this Zara orchid composition shares the same three-note structure as its 2021 successor — bergamot opens, orchid anchors the heart, vanilla closes. Bergamot lights things briefly, clean and citric, before the orchid takes over: a delicate, lightly powdery white floral that projects without much reach. Vanilla closes softly.
The result is a light, skin-close floral with minimal projection, suited to casual daily use. As a standalone fragrance it offers uncomplicated warmth — the kind that disappears into everyday wear rather than announcing itself. Compared to the 2021 version any distinction is subtle.
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.
