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Lavender dominates the opening, its herbal brightness sharpened by lime and bergamot while plum adds a dark, jammy counterweight that keeps the citrus from turning airy.
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.
- Aromatic70
- White Floral60
- Warm Spicy50
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Lavender
- Plum
- Lime
- Orange
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
By the editors · 2 min readLavender dominates the opening, its herbal brightness sharpened by lime and bergamot while plum adds a dark, jammy counterweight that keeps the citrus from turning airy. The heart layers jasmine and ylang-ylang into a creamy white-floral block anchored by powdery iris and a dry, cocoa-like patchouli; amber spreads a resinous warmth that fuses flowers and earth into one continuous surface. As the accord settles, sandalwood and cedar push a clean, blond wood grain through the remaining amber, vanilla sweetens the edges, and oakmoss gives a quiet, matte green finish that reins in the sugar. Projection stays within arm’s length for six hours, tilting the fragrance toward crisp spring evenings or air-conditioned offices where its polite sillage won’t compete. Overall balance is smooth and slightly sweet, neither daring nor dull.
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.
