Butterfly Flower
Butterfly Flower opens with a tropical-edged burst: tangerine and black tea add brightness and a dry, slightly bitter complexity, while banana brings a creamy warmth that softens the citrus edge.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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
- Yellow Floral50
- White Floral50
- Tropical
The note pyramid
- Black Tea
- Banana
- Cyclamen
- Tangerine
- Orchid
- Syringa
- Mimosa
By the editors · 2 min readButterfly Flower opens with a tropical-edged burst: tangerine and black tea add brightness and a dry, slightly bitter complexity, while banana brings a creamy warmth that softens the citrus edge. Cyclamen contributes a dewy, green freshness that makes the opening feel sun-washed rather than candy-sweet.
The heart is a fresh, powdery floral trio — orchid, mimosa, and syringa — that preserves the lightness of the top without becoming heavy. The flowers sit close to the skin rather than projecting boldly, with mimosa lending a gentle golden dust and syringa offering a cool lilac note.
The dry-down settles into coconut and musk: tropical and warm, but restrained. This limited 2009 release earned its cult following by capturing spring's warmth without overreaching — a discontinued fragrance that still commands attention in the secondary market.
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.
