Blazing Lily
Gunpowder crackles first, a dry mineral spark that lifts the waxy lily petals into something almost incandescent.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Woody60
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Tonka Bean
- Guaiac Wood
- Lily
- Gunpowder
By the editors · 2 min readGunpowder crackles first, a dry mineral spark that lifts the waxy lily petals into something almost incandescent. The flower’s cool green spine softens the smoky grains, while guaiac wood layers thin cedar embers underneath, keeping the bloom from turning sugary. As the minutes pass, tonka bean’s warm hay-almond facet creeps in, folding the ashes into a skin-like sweetness that lingers closer than it projects. The scent stays angular, never plush: lily keeps its waxen edge, gunpowder keeps its flinty rasp, and the wood stays polished rather than creamy. Wear it when you want a floral that refuses to behave, best in cool weather and after dusk. Moderate longevity, quiet sillage, high contrast.
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.
