Osmanthus Guilin
Osmanthus absolute opens the composition with its signature apricot-leather facet, here brightened by bergamot's citric sparkle and orange blossom's clean solar lift.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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 Floral80
- Tuberose50
- White Floral50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Orange Blossom
- Osmanthus
- Bergamot
- Tuberose
- Peach
- Violet
By the editors · 2 min readOsmanthus absolute opens the composition with its signature apricot-leather facet, here brightened by bergamot's citric sparkle and orange blossom's clean solar lift. The heart folds velvety tuberose creaminess around ripe peach lactones, while violet ionones cool the white floral cream and extend the osmanthus suede through the mid-stage. Sandalwood in the base steers the suede toward blond wood, labdanum resin thickens the apricot into a honeyed amber glow, and clean white musk sheers everything out so the scent hovers just above skin. Projection stays polite for the first three hours, then collapses into a soft woody-musk veil that still carries a ghost of osmanthus leather. Office-friendly across spring and fall, it reads as a sheer apricot-skin veil rather than statement perfume.
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.