Bijan
The opening strikes with honeyed florals and bright citrus oils in equal measure, the basil adding an unusual herbal clarity that keeps the sweetness from closing in too quickly.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 16 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.
- Tuberose90
- Floral80
- Honey70
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Basil
- Neroli
- Ylang-Ylang
- Orange Blossom
- Bergamot
- Narcissus
- Tuberose
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening strikes with honeyed florals and bright citrus oils in equal measure, the basil adding an unusual herbal clarity that keeps the sweetness from closing in too quickly. Ylang-ylang and neroli blend into something both creamy and effervescent, a champagne brightness that announces itself without shouting.
As it settles, tuberose and jasmine take the lead, but they're softened by lily of the valley and held in check by that persistent herbal thread. The honey note becomes more literal in the heart, adding a golden, slightly animalic warmth. This is where the perfume shows its eighties DNA most clearly—big white florals with no apologies, built for presence.
The drydown is surprisingly plush: tonka, sandalwood, and benzoin create a skin-close sweetness, while oakmoss and cedar provide just enough structure to prevent total dissolution into powder. It wears like old luxury—unapologetically rich, designed for evening tables and low lighting, for someone who understands that volume and elegance aren't opposites.
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.
