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 17 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.
- Yellow Floral50
- White Floral50
- Lactonic50
- Iris
The note pyramid
- Petitgrain
- Ylang-Ylang
- Orange
- Grapefruit
- Bergamot
- Orris
- Neroli
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.
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.
