Colors de Benetton
The opening neroli dissolves almost immediately into something sweet and powdery, a collision of fruit and flowers that feels distinctly eighties.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 19 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
- Herbal50
- Aromatic50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Neroli
- Pineapple
- Tuberose
- Bulgarian Rose
- Jasmine
- Peach
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening neroli dissolves almost immediately into something sweet and powdery, a collision of fruit and flowers that feels distinctly eighties. Pineapple and peach arrive first, not quite tropical but more like syrup over ice cream, followed by tuberose and rose that never quite separate into individual impressions. The jasmine adds a faint indolic edge, enough to suggest white flowers without full bloom.
By the drydown, oakmoss and civet give it the slightly animalic foundation common to that era's commercial fragrances, tempered by vanilla that reads more as soft musk than gourmand sweetness. Cedar and opoponax add weight without much character of their own. The whole effect is candy-store florals over a hazy, musty base.
This is an artifact of its time: bright, synthetic, unapologetically feminine in the shoulder-pad sense. It wears like a memory of department store perfume counters before minimalism took over, more cheerful than sophisticated, more nostalgic than current.
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.
