Fleur de Santal
A juicy pear and pink pepper opening sets a tone that is fruity but never candied, with a faint crispness that keeps the sweetness in check.
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.
- Floral55
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Yellow Floral
The note pyramid
- Pear
- Pink Pepper
- Ylang-Ylang
- Iris
- Mimosa
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readA juicy pear and pink pepper opening sets a tone that is fruity but never candied, with a faint crispness that keeps the sweetness in check. The transition rolls into a soft floral heart where ylang-ylang adds creamy warmth, mimosa lifts the texture toward sunlight, and iris threads cool powder through the centre.
The base settles into milky sandalwood with a clean musk, blurring the floral edges into something quietly skin-close. Overall the composition reads as a polished powder-floral with a sandalwood backbone, more refined than playful, with the kind of soft sheen that makes it sit comfortably under clothing rather than projecting outward.
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.
