Bosphorus Pearl
Lily of the valley opens cool and aqueous, its green facets slicing through the violet's candied powder to create a sheer spring veil.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Fresh50
- Yellow Floral50
- White Floral50
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Lily of the Valley
- Violet
- Rose
- Ylang-Ylang
- Cedar
- White Musk
By the editors · 2 min readLily of the valley opens cool and aqueous, its green facets slicing through the violet's candied powder to create a sheer spring veil. Rose emerges within minutes, adding a dewy transparency that keeps the trio airy rather than lush. Ylang-ylang slides underneath, lending a banana-cream warmth that fattens the heart while cedar supplies a pencil-shaving dryness that stops the white flowers from turning syrupy. The dry-down is skin-close: white musk sheathes the remaining petals in clean laundry soap, and amber appears only as a soft golden glimmer rather than resinous heft. Projection stays polite, a handshake-distance floral mist perfect for office days when spring sunshine still feels tentative.
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.
