Valiant
Boadicea the Victorious names each fragrance after a virtue or epithet, and Valiant announces its ambitions before a single note lands.
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.
- Iris50
- Amber50
- Rose45
- Vanilla45
- Tonka45
By the editors · 2 min readBoadicea the Victorious names each fragrance after a virtue or epithet, and Valiant announces its ambitions before a single note lands. The opening is a citrus surge — petitgrain's bitter-green snap, bergamot's sunlit tartness, orange and grapefruit adding depth and brightness — before ylang-ylang's tropical sweetness begins pulling the composition toward the florals to come. The heart is uncompromisingly rich: orris, neroli, orange blossom, iris, violet, and rose together create a dense, multi-layered floral accord that reads as confident rather than sweet. Tonka, sandalwood, amber, and vanilla in the base anchor everything in warm luxury. A statement fragrance that earns its name.
