Osmanthus
Osmanthus opens with neroli — bright, slightly bitter-citrus and clean.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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.
- Floral70
- Soft Spicy60
- Lactonic50
- Citrus
The note pyramid
- Neroli
- Pink Pepper
- Ambrette
- Peony
- Patchouli
- Osmanthus
By the editors · 2 min readOsmanthus opens with neroli — bright, slightly bitter-citrus and clean. It doesn't push hard; instead it creates space for what follows. Pink pepper enters the heart with measured warmth, adding a dry, lightly spiced edge without aggression. Ambrette brings a soft musk-like quality, almost skin-like, that keeps the composition intimate.
Peony adds a delicate floral layer, transparent rather than rich. The base is where osmanthus itself arrives — its characteristic apricot-leather character surfacing alongside patchouli, which here reads more refined than heavy, providing a subtle earthiness that extends the dry-down.
The overall effect is quiet and wearable — a restrained floral with a soft-spicy backbone and subtle depth from the osmanthus.
Scent twins
In this family
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