Douleur!2
Melon lands watery and slightly overripe, its green edges scythed by a flash of cool mint that prevents any dessert-like sweetness.
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.
- Animalic70
- Rose60
- Fresh50
- Marine
The note pyramid
- Melon
- Mint
- Rose
- Civet
- Benzoin
By the editors · 2 min readMelon lands watery and slightly overripe, its green edges scythed by a flash of cool mint that prevents any dessert-like sweetness. The heart swaps aqueous fruit for a dry, lemon-tinged rose whose petals feel lightly salted, stretching the green current into something almost saline. Civet arrives early, a low growl of warm fur that wraps around the rose and bends it slightly leathery, while benzoin pours a matte amber varnish that dulls shine without adding sugar. Over hours the musky skank softens, leaving a skin-print of dry rose tinged with dried fruit skin and quiet animal warmth. Projection stays within arm’s reach; best for temperate spring days when you want an off-beat twist on a fresh floral.
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.
