Instinct Forbidden
Instinct Forbidden takes the Instinct line in a fruitier, more playful direction.
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.
- Vanilla55
- Fresh50
- White Floral50
- Lactonic
The note pyramid
- Lemon Peel
- Gardenia
- Violet
- Red Berries
- Tahitian Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readInstinct Forbidden takes the Instinct line in a fruitier, more playful direction. Lemon peel in the top is sharp and brief — citrus skin rather than pulp — before the composition pivots quickly to a berry-floral heart. Red berries and violet create a cheerful, slightly edgy pairing; gardenia adds a white floral presence that rounds the contrast without softening it into a conventional bouquet. Tahitian vanilla at the base is soft and tropical in character, less intensely sweet than Madagascar varieties, giving the dry-down a lightly creamy finish that avoids full gourmand territory. Compact, crowd-friendly, and well-suited to warmer months.
Scent twins
In this family
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.
