Waterlily Sun
Bergamot opens bright and effervescent, a cool citrus mist that flashes quickly to reveal a watery gardenia accord.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 5 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
- Aquatic50
- Green50
- Floral
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Musk
- Gardenia
- Guaiac Wood
- Bergamot
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot opens bright and effervescent, a cool citrus mist that flashes quickly to reveal a watery gardenia accord. Gardenia here is transparent, stripped of creamy heft and left as a dew-drenched petal facet that rides on guaiac wood’s pale, pencil-shaving dryness. The wood steers the floral toward a sunlit pier rather than a humid greenhouse, while a sheer white musk base amplifies the aquatic illusion, diffusing the scent like humid air above a pond. Mid-development softens the citrus edge but keeps the composition crisp, never sweet. Projection remains close, a skin-level veil that refreshes in warm weather without announcing itself across a room. Best for office or weekend errands when you want clean floral lift without sugar.
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.
