Japanese Cherry Blossom 2011
Japanese Cherry Blossom 2011 opens with a single note of pear — clean, faintly sweet, barely tart — before the heart unfolds a soft trio of Virginia cedar, mimosa, and rose that reads spring garden rather than anything specifically Japanese.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 3 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.
- Amber55
- Cinnamon50
- Rose40
The note pyramid
- Pear
- Virginia Cedar
- Mimosa
- Rose
- Sandalwood
- Cinnamon
By the editors · 2 min readJapanese Cherry Blossom 2011 opens with a single note of pear — clean, faintly sweet, barely tart — before the heart unfolds a soft trio of Virginia cedar, mimosa, and rose that reads spring garden rather than anything specifically Japanese. What distinguishes this version is the base, which takes an unexpectedly ceremonial direction: cinnamon, incense, amber, and a subtle rice note give the dry-down a warm, slightly smoky character that recalls ritual as much as florals.
The musk binds everything with skin-close intimacy. A lightly spiced take on a mainstream floral, more layered than its category positioning suggests.
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.