Love and Tears
Love and Tears opens with a sharp, green brightness—petitgrain and galbanum cutting through lavender's haze like morning light after rain.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Fresh50
- Aromatic50
- Yellow Floral50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Petitgrain
- Lavender
- Galbanum
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Lily of the Valley
By the editors · 2 min readLove and Tears opens with a sharp, green brightness—petitgrain and galbanum cutting through lavender's haze like morning light after rain. The bergamot softens the edges without sweetening them. This is classical French perfumery in full voice, unapologetically formal.
The heart blooms white and indolic, layering jasmine and orange blossom over lily of the valley's cool soapiness. Ylang-ylang adds weight, narcissus a touch of creamy melancholy. The florals never turn syrupy; they remain contained, almost austere, held in check by that persistent green thread from the opening.
Oakmoss and cedar anchor everything in a woody, slightly resinous base that recalls the great chypres of another era. Styrax brings a balsamic sweetness that suggests tears more than sugar—something elegiac rather than romantic. This is fragrance for those who appreciate restraint, who understand that love stories don't always resolve neatly.
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.
