Zara Gardenia 2017
The opening is bright and juicy—raspberry and peach softened by citrus, more fruit salad than tart sharpness.
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.
- White Floral50
- Balsamic50
- Sweet50
- Powdery
The note pyramid
- Raspberry
- Peach
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Gardenia
- Jasmine
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening is bright and juicy—raspberry and peach softened by citrus, more fruit salad than tart sharpness. It fades quickly, making way for a gardenia that leans synthetic but not unpleasant, bolstered by jasmine that adds a touch of indolic warmth. The floral heart is cleaner than it is lush, more polite than sultry.
In the base, vanilla smooths everything into a soft-focus haze, with cedar and patchouli providing just enough structure to keep it from dissolving entirely into sweetness. The musk is quiet, almost apologetic. The whole composition feels like a sketch of a white floral rather than a fully rendered portrait—pleasant and wearable, but without much complexity.
Best suited for casual wear when you want something pretty and unchallenging. It won't fill a room or last through dinner, but that's part of its charm: easy, disposable, gone by evening.
Scent twins
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