Occur
An Avon feminine from 1963 that belongs to the era of fully-dressed florals — worn like a choice, not a habit.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 16 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.
- Mossy70
- Rose60
- Floral60
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Gardenia
- Cardamom
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Lily of the Valley
- Patchouli
- Styrax
By the editors · 2 min readAn Avon feminine from 1963 that belongs to the era of fully-dressed florals — worn like a choice, not a habit. Gardenia and cardamom share the opening with bergamot, an unusual combination that reads as warm-spiced citrus rather than pure floral. The heart is dense: jasmine, rose, and lily of the valley layered with patchouli and styrax, adding resinous shadow beneath the petals.
The base goes deep — oakmoss, amber, and castoreum bring a classic chypre structure, while coconut introduces a creamy quality unusual for its time. Leather dries it down. A composed, unapologetic feminine with the structural confidence its decade wore without irony.
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.
