First Instinct Sheer
Pink pepper and bergamot open with a light, fizzy brightness that dissipates quickly, leaving space for lily of the valley and orange blossom to settle into the skin.
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.
- Fresh50
- White Floral50
- Ozonic50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Pink Pepper
- Bergamot
- Lily of the Valley
- Orange Blossom
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readPink pepper and bergamot open with a light, fizzy brightness that dissipates quickly, leaving space for lily of the valley and orange blossom to settle into the skin. The white florals here read more transparent than lush — closer to clean laundry than a garden bouquet.
Amber and musk in the base keep things warm without weight, pulling the fragrance toward a soft, skin-close finish. The overall arc is brief and linear, with little transformation between the opening and dry-down.
This reads as a warm-weather fragrance built for casual wear — approachable, unchallenging, and decidedly light. It sits close to the skin throughout most of its wear.
Scent twins
In this family
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.
