China Affair
Neroli opens with a clean, slightly honeyed citrus edge that quickly folds into a heart where orris butter adds a cool, chalky violet softness while jasmine gives indolic lift.
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.
- Iris60
- Fresh50
- Warm Spicy50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Neroli
- Orris
- Jasmine
- Patchouli
- Rose
- Incense
By the editors · 2 min readNeroli opens with a clean, slightly honeyed citrus edge that quickly folds into a heart where orris butter adds a cool, chalky violet softness while jasmine gives indolic lift. Rose and patchouli interlock at equal weight: the rose stays matte rather than sweet, the patchouli delivers dry cocoa leaf rather than earth, so the accord reads as polished wood-paneled powder rather than lush floral. Incense and olibanum arrive early in the dry-down, exhaling a paper-thin frankincense smoke that benzoin’s vanilla-pear glaze quietly rounds without turning gourmand. Amber and musk stay recessed, extending wear to a quiet skin-level hum of resin-cream. Projection remains office-close for six-plus hours; cool fall days and smart-casual settings fit best.
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.
