Desire for a Woman
A bright citrus burst leads — bergamot, orange, lime — sliced through by creamy magnolia that softens the edges almost immediately.
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.
- Soft Spicy50
- White Floral50
- Balsamic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Magnolia
- Lime
- Orange
- Bergamot
- Gardenia
- Freesia
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readA bright citrus burst leads — bergamot, orange, lime — sliced through by creamy magnolia that softens the edges almost immediately. The opening reads sunlit and clean, more cologne than perfume for the first ten minutes.
The heart turns plush as gardenia and freesia layer in over rose, building a white-floral bouquet with a cool green spine. Then the base announces itself: caramel sweetness curling around vanilla and amber, sandalwood giving the sweetness somewhere to rest. The progression from sparkling top to syrupy base is the main event here, and it happens fast — the citrus is gone within twenty minutes.
The overall character is a polished oriental-floral, warm and sweet without being heavy. Reads dressy. Sits comfortably on cool evenings.
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.
