Oriental Bloom Betty Barclay 2002 Eau de Parfum
A juicy raspberry-orange opening reads as bright and slightly tart, the fruit setting a feminine tone before the composition turns oriental.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Violet90
- Smoky70
- Soft Spicy50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Pear
- Raspberry
- Jasmine
- Orange
- Freesia
- Tonka Bean
- Magnolia
By the editors · 2 min readA juicy raspberry-orange opening reads as bright and slightly tart, the fruit setting a feminine tone before the composition turns oriental.
The heart pivots into something darker: frankincense's clean smoky resin meets patchouli's earthy depth, with rose and violet adding a powdery floral curve underneath. The fruit-floral-incense braid in the middle gives the composition its character, balancing brightness and warmth.
The drydown leans into amber and vanilla over a clean musk, the amber radiating golden warmth and the vanilla softening the close. The overall reading is a fruity-oriental with a smoky-resinous heart, more contemplative than purely sweet, with a powdery violet trail.
Scent twins
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