Fleur de Louis
Galbanum slashes first, a bitter-green blade that makes the bergamot taste almost like lime peel.
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.
- White Floral70
- Green60
- Fresh50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Neroli
- Galbanum
- Bergamot
- Orange Blossom
- Clove
- Vetiver
By the editors · 2 min readGalbanum slashes first, a bitter-green blade that makes the bergamot taste almost like lime peel. Neroli follows immediately, turning the green snap into a sun-lit white flash that feels both dewy and waxy. Orange blossom in the heart keeps the white register but adds honeyed weight, while clove pushes a dry, medicinal heat that prevents the bouquet from sugaring. Vetiver rises early, its cool rootiness threading through the florals and pulling them toward earth; amber in the base warms the vetiver with a soft, resinous glow rather than heavy sweetness. The result is a crisp, slightly soapy orange-blossom cologne stretched over a smoky vetiver skeleton, projecting a polite two-foot radius for six hours before settling into freshly-snapped twigs and pale amber lint on skin. Spring through early fall, office-safe yet quietly spiced.
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.
