Flowerhead
Flowerhead opens with a brief citrus clarity before the tuberose arrives—not the operatic white floral of traditional perfumery, but something quieter and more measured.
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.
- Tuberose65
- White Floral50
- Green50
- Animalic
The note pyramid
- Lemon
- Tuberose
- Tuberose
- Rose
- Ambergris
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readFlowerhead opens with a brief citrus clarity before the tuberose arrives—not the operatic white floral of traditional perfumery, but something quieter and more measured. Byredo's approach feels almost Nordic in its restraint, allowing the flower's creamy, slightly green character to unfold without the usual indolic drama. The lemon never quite disappears; it lingers as a pale backdrop that keeps the composition from becoming too heavy.
As it settles, suede and ambergris create a soft, skin-like base that wraps around the tuberose rather than competing with it. The effect is surprisingly wearable, almost casual—a white floral that doesn't announce itself from across a room. There's a modern ease here, a deliberate smoothness that will appeal to those who find classic tuberose fragrances overwhelming but still want something with presence and depth.
Scent twins
In this family
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.
