Imitation Woman
Imitation Woman opens with a concentrated quartet of white florals — jasmine, ylang-ylang, orange blossom, and rose arriving simultaneously, heady and insistent.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 17 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.
- Floral65
- Smoky65
- Rose55
- Fresh
The note pyramid
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Orange Blossom
- Rose
- Black Currant
By the editors · 2 min readImitation Woman opens with a concentrated quartet of white florals — jasmine, ylang-ylang, orange blossom, and rose arriving simultaneously, heady and insistent. The black currant at the heart is a deliberate wrong note, adding tartness and a slightly jammy quality that disrupts what would otherwise be a classical feminine floral. Frankincense and incense dry everything down, patchouli sharpening the base, sandalwood providing cohesion. This is an Amouage that resists the house's usual grand oriental architecture in favor of something more unsettled — the florals never fully settle into prettiness, the resinous base never quite offers comfort. Provocative by design, beautiful by accident.
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.
