Zara Orchid 2017
Zara Orchid 2017 opens in the fruity-floral register common to mainstream feminines: black currant and bergamot together give a tart, slightly jammy lift with a citrus edge, while rose threads through the opening without dominating.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Fruity70
- Amber65
- Musky60
- Citrus
The note pyramid
- Black Currant
- Bergamot
- Rose
- Peach
- Lily of the Valley
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readZara Orchid 2017 opens in the fruity-floral register common to mainstream feminines: black currant and bergamot together give a tart, slightly jammy lift with a citrus edge, while rose threads through the opening without dominating. The heart deepens with peach — soft and pulpy — alongside lily of the valley, which keeps the composition light and dewy.
Amber and cedar in the base add warmth without density, and musk provides a clean skin-close finish. Despite the orchid in the name, the fragrance reads as sweet-fruity rather than overtly floral — closer to the blackcurrant-peach-amber arc typical of accessible feminine releases. Works well for casual and date occasions in warmer seasons.
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.
