Christian Lacroix Nuit
The opening is bright citrus tempered by neroli's bitter-green edge, a flash of light before the night settles in.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Smoky65
- Tuberose55
- Yellow Floral50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Neroli
- Bergamot
- Tuberose
- Jasmine
- Narcissus
- Incense
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening is bright citrus tempered by neroli's bitter-green edge, a flash of light before the night settles in. Within minutes, tuberose arrives thick and creamy, its indolic weight softened by jasmine and narcissus that lean toward waxy, slightly medicinal territory rather than airy florals. This is white flowers with their roots showing.
The base pulls incense and frankincense to the foreground, wrapping the florals in resinous smoke. Amber and musk give it warmth without sweetness, grounding everything in a dusky, almost devotional atmosphere. The contrast between opulent flowers and austere incense keeps it from feeling too soft or too severe.
A 2011 Avon release designed by Christian Lacroix, this wears like an attempt at accessible orientalism: white florals for familiarity, incense for drama. It suits evenings when you want presence without loudness, or anyone drawn to tuberose with a smokier, less tropical bent.
Scent twins
In this family
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