Passionate
Passionate opens with a bright citrus-floral accord — orange blossom and bergamot shimmering against lemon in a clean, luminous opening.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Jasmine55
- Rose50
- Bergamot45
- Tonka45
- Amber45
By the editors · 2 min readPassionate opens with a bright citrus-floral accord — orange blossom and bergamot shimmering against lemon in a clean, luminous opening. Jasmine, lily of the valley, and rose at the heart form a classic white-floral triptych, lush without heaviness, the kind of floral that was considered benchmark femininity in the early 80s. Tonka, benzoin, and amber in the base warm the composition into a soft oriental finish, cedar providing structure. This is a well-crafted feminine floral oriental, unpretentious and elegantly assembled — the kind of fragrance that doesn't need to explain itself. It simply works, in the tradition of its era.
