Timeless
The opening swings between soft fruit and bright citrus—peach and bergamot collide in a way that feels unmistakably mid-seventies, neither shy nor strident.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 17 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.
- Fresh50
- White Floral50
- Aldehydic50
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Gardenia
- Peach
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Cedar
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening swings between soft fruit and bright citrus—peach and bergamot collide in a way that feels unmistakably mid-seventies, neither shy nor strident. Gardenia arrives quickly, creamy but not indolic, threading through the top notes with a soapy-floral warmth that bridges the gap to what follows.
The heart grows denser as jasmine, rose, and iris fold into cedar and patchouli, creating a slightly powdered, slightly earthy floral that refuses to stay in one place. There's something deliberately old-fashioned about the construction—florals don't float, they settle. Tonka, amber, and vanilla anchor the base with a sweet, resinous hum, while opoponax adds a faint balsamic shadow that keeps the sweetness from tipping too far.
This is a fragrance that wears its era openly. It suits anyone drawn to assertive florals softened by amber and musk, the kind of scent that fills a room without apology.
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.
