Cierge De Lune
Cierge de Lune — moonlit candle — announces its character in its name.
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.
- Vanilla65
- Musky60
- Amber55
- Yellow Floral
The note pyramid
- Musk
- Madagascar Vanilla
- Ylang-Ylang
- Pink Pepper
- Incense
By the editors · 2 min readCierge de Lune — moonlit candle — announces its character in its name. Musk opens where most fragrances put citrus, giving the composition an immediate skin-close quality that persists through the entire development. The heart is its most active moment: Madagascar vanilla and ylang-ylang together, reading rich, creamy, and slightly indolic — more white flowers at dusk than confectionery. Pink pepper adds a dry, spiced edge that keeps the sweetness from becoming complacent.
Incense, amber, and suede build the base into something genuinely luxurious — the incense smokiness restrained, the suede note smooth and skin-warm, the amber extending the composition without adding new character. This is a quiet, intimate fragrance suited to evenings and cool nights rather than projection. The musk-to-musk arc (top and base) creates an unusual coherence: it never really departs from its close-skin register.
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.
