Topaze
Topaze opens on a clean aldehyde lift — that soapy brightness that defined 1950s femininity — riding over bergamot, peach, and lemon.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 20 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.
- Rose60
- Floral60
- Fresh50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Aldehydes
- Peach
- Coriander
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
By the editors · 2 min readTopaze opens on a clean aldehyde lift — that soapy brightness that defined 1950s femininity — riding over bergamot, peach, and lemon. Coriander adds a spicy-herbal inflection that prevents the opening from reading as purely pretty. The floral heart is dense: carnation, ylang-ylang, rose, iris, jasmine, and lily-of-the-valley in close company, a composition rooted in its era.
The base brings civet, benzoin, and tonka together into a warm, powdery-animalic drydown that lingers through the day. Topaze is a textbook mid-century aldehydic floral — polished, slightly austere, and built for longevity.
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.
