Ninfea
Gardenia and orange open creamy and bright together, the gardenia thick and slightly mushroomy, the orange keeping the whole thing from going waxy.
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.
- Fresh50
- White Floral50
- Aquatic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Gardenia
- Orange
- Lavender
- Jasmine
- Sandalwood
- Ambergris
By the editors · 2 min readGardenia and orange open creamy and bright together, the gardenia thick and slightly mushroomy, the orange keeping the whole thing from going waxy. It's an unusual pairing that lands lush rather than sharp.
Lavender and jasmine make for an unexpected mid-stage shift, the lavender herbal-aromatic against the jasmine's indolic warmth. The combination has a slightly soapy, salon-clean character before the base resolves things.
Sandalwood, ambergris, vanilla, and musk close the composition into a creamy-warm finish, the ambergris adding a salty-mineral edge that keeps the vanilla from feeling dessert-like. The overall character is white-floral with an aromatic shoulder — projects moderately, lasts well on skin, suits warm-weather evenings.
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.
