(Wood Legacy)
The opening is unusual for Zara — dark chocolate is the lead note, bittersweet and slightly dusty, lifted by oak's dry-cask quality and a fast prick of black pepper.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 18 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.
- Sweet55
- Soft Spicy50
- Woody50
- Lactonic
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Dark Chocolate
- Oak
- Tonka Bean
- Cedarwood
- Moss
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening is unusual for Zara — dark chocolate is the lead note, bittersweet and slightly dusty, lifted by oak's dry-cask quality and a fast prick of black pepper. There's no citrus. The composition declares its register immediately: cool-weather, dense, gourmand-leaning rather than fresh.
The heart is tonka and cedarwood doing what they do best, the tonka softening the chocolate into something closer to baked dessert while the cedar keeps a structural spine in place. The base unspools slowly — patchouli, amber, vanilla, musk, and a thread of moss — into a long, warm trail. One of Zara's denser 2024 releases, and a credible budget play in the cocoa-and-wood territory crowded by far more expensive niche bottles.
Scent twins
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