I Don T Need a Prince by My Side To Be a Princess
The opening is a tart flash of lemon, clarifying and direct, before ginger and apple arrive with a crisp, almost effervescent sweetness.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 2 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.
- Vanilla55
- Amber25
The note pyramid
- Lemon
- Ginger
- Apple
- Jasmine
- Peach
- Benzoin
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening is a tart flash of lemon, clarifying and direct, before ginger and apple arrive with a crisp, almost effervescent sweetness. There's no heavy build-up here—just bright fruit underscored by something lightly spiced, holding the composition upright rather than letting it drift into generic sweetness.
As it settles, jasmine adds a soft white floral presence, while peach brings a dusted, barely-there flesh note that feels more textural than sweet. The base layers benzoin and vanilla without much drama, rounding the edges into something smooth and easy to wear, less a statement than a comfortable backdrop.
This is for someone who wants something polished and approachable without the weight of traditional florals or the syrupy tendencies of many fruity scents. It stays close, wears lightly, and doesn't ask for much attention—confident in its simplicity.
Scent twins
In this family
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