Amor Amor Tentation
Ivy opens with a crisp, green bitterness that feels more botanical garden than perfume counter—a deliberate detour from sweetness that immediately sets this apart from its lineage.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 3 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.
- Green75
- Cedar65
- Jasmine55
By the editors · 2 min readIvy opens with a crisp, green bitterness that feels more botanical garden than perfume counter—a deliberate detour from sweetness that immediately sets this apart from its lineage. The jasmine that follows is soft but persistent, blending into the ivy's verdant edge rather than overtaking it, as if the white petals were half-obscured by leaves. Virginia cedar arrives as the dry-down anchor, grounding the composition with pencil shavings and a pale woodiness that never quite warms.
The overall effect is unexpectedly restrained for a flanker in this family. Where you might anticipate candy or pink fruit, there's instead a spare, almost androgynous greenness. It wears close to the skin, polite rather than loud, and manages to feel both youthful and quietly serious—a study piece rather than a shout.
