Zara Bright Rose
Bright Rose opens with an unusual spice combination — cinnamon and cumin together, which push the opening into territory more bazaar than perfumery counter.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Rose65
- Patchouli55
- Fresh50
- Cinnamon
The note pyramid
- Cinnamon
- Cumin
- Lily of the Valley
- Rose
- Vetiver
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readBright Rose opens with an unusual spice combination — cinnamon and cumin together, which push the opening into territory more bazaar than perfumery counter. It is unexpected for a rose-centric fragrance and it works: the warmth from the spices makes the rose heart seem more layered than a simple floral.
Lily of the valley brings a cool, green counterpoint before patchouli and vetiver take over in a grounded, earthy base. The overall effect is a chypre-adjacent rose with bite in the opening and genuine depth in the dry-down. More assertive and better-structured than most in Zara's catalog, and unusual enough to hold attention.
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.
