Solaris
Solaris begins with a citrus-forward burst — lemon and petitgrain bright against a tart black currant — that feels crisp but not sharp.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Balsamic70
- Marine50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Petitgrain
- Black Currant
- Lemon
- Ginger
- Black Pepper
- Peach
- Galbanum
By the editors · 2 min readSolaris begins with a citrus-forward burst — lemon and petitgrain bright against a tart black currant — that feels crisp but not sharp. Ginger and black pepper arrive quickly, adding warmth and a slight bite, while peach softens the mid-stage into something fruited and rounded. Galbanum contributes a green-herbal coolness that keeps the sweetness in check.
The base moves into richer territory as labdanum, benzoin, and tonka bean build an amber-balsamic foundation with real depth. Patchouli grounds everything without dominating. The overall character is a warm-spicy fruity oriental with a citrus and green intro — genuinely evolving from opening to dry-down rather than reading flat throughout.
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.
