Knot
Knot opens on a brightness that is both green and floral — neroli, lime, and orange blossom arriving together in a trio that reads as a morning on the Amalfi coast rather than any single flower.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Musk50
- Lavender45
- Tonka40
- Orange40
- Bergamot30
By the editors · 2 min readKnot opens on a brightness that is both green and floral — neroli, lime, and orange blossom arriving together in a trio that reads as a morning on the Amalfi coast rather than any single flower. The lime sharpens the citrus edge; the neroli carries it floral; orange blossom softens it toward skin. Lavender enters the heart quietly, acting more as a structural note than a statement, keeping the peony from going too sweet or too sheer.
The base is soft: tonka and musk, warm and close, letting the floral work carry the composition to its end. What Knot does well is restraint at every level — the transitions are smooth, nothing announces itself, the overall impression is polished without being generic. It sits between fresh and floral without fully committing to either, a quality that will frustrate some and suit others perfectly.
