Midnight Osmanthus
Grapefruit flashes briefly across the top, bitter and slightly pink, but it surrenders almost immediately to the deeper notes underneath.
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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.
- Vanilla70
- Violet60
- Powdery55
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Grapefruit
- Benzoin
- Violet
- Tonka Bean
- Sandalwood
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readGrapefruit flashes briefly across the top, bitter and slightly pink, but it surrenders almost immediately to the deeper notes underneath. The opening is more transition than statement.
Benzoin and violet form the heart, the resin warm and balsamic, the flower powdery and faintly candied. The pairing reads dim and intimate, a bedside-lamp kind of warmth rather than anything floral or fresh, with osmanthus implied through the apricot-violet shimmer.
Tonka bean, sandalwood, vanilla and musk pool at the base, sweet, creamy and skin-close. Overall character is plush and slightly dessert-like without going full gourmand, a violet-vanilla number for cold evenings, projecting softly and lingering long as a powdered second-skin warmth.
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.
