London 1969
Pear opens crisp and slightly waxy, its green juice sheared by a cool lily-of-the-valley wateriness that quickly folds into neroli’s clean orange-blossom glow.
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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.
- Green70
- White Floral60
- Soft Spicy50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Pear
- Neroli
- Lily of the Valley
- Tar
- Patchouli
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readPear opens crisp and slightly waxy, its green juice sheared by a cool lily-of-the-valley wateriness that quickly folds into neroli’s clean orange-blossom glow. The heart stays pale and aqueous, the flowers acting like wet white linen rather than plush petals, while a whisper of industrial tar adds a faint creosote shadow that keeps the bouquet from turning sugary sweet. Patchouli arrives dry and leaf-blown, anchoring the musk in a cool soil layer that mutes projection and lets the scent cling like post-rain pavement. Wear it two hours and you’re left with a clean skin-close musk carrying a ghost of pear skin and soft earth. Quiet sillage suits close-office days or rainy spring walks when you want freshness without citrus.
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.
