Odyssey
Odyssey is a 1981 lush floral with the unrestrained density that characterized the era's prestige feminines.
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.
- Tuberose65
- Mossy60
- Fresh50
- Yellow Floral
The note pyramid
- Tuberose
- Lily of the Valley
- Magnolia
- Ylang-Ylang
- Mimosa
By the editors · 2 min readOdyssey is a 1981 lush floral with the unrestrained density that characterized the era's prestige feminines. Tuberose and lily of the valley arrive together at the top — heady, white, and assertive in the way these flowers rarely present in contemporary compositions. The heart builds depth with ylang-ylang, magnolia, and mimosa: powdery, slightly honeyed, distinctly feminine in the mid-century sense.
Oakmoss and vetiver in the base give the fragrance its chypre-adjacent foundation — earthy, green, and lasting. Musk and sandalwood soften the landing without diminishing the structure. This was designed to make a statement, and by today's standards it reads as bold and unapologetic. Best understood in context: a mass-market fragrance from the height of the power-floral era.
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.
