Downtown
The pear and plum opening arrives with a cool, almost watery sweetness—fruity, but restrained, like cut fruit left on marble rather than anything ripe or heavy.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 16 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.
- Smoky65
- Earthy55
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Pear
- Neroli
- Plum
- Bergamot
- Gardenia
- Violet Leaf
- Pink Pepper
By the editors · 2 min readThe pear and plum opening arrives with a cool, almost watery sweetness—fruity, but restrained, like cut fruit left on marble rather than anything ripe or heavy. It's the kind of sharpness that feels urban and immediate, not pastoral. As it settles, gardenia and violet leaf bring a green, slightly metallic floralcy, tempered by the dry snap of pink pepper. The contrast keeps things taut.
The base pulls it into quieter territory. Incense and vetiver create a shadowy, almost austere backdrop, softened just enough by musk to stay wearable rather than austere. It's a composition that leans modern and androgynous—neither warm nor cold, but somewhere in between, like walking through a city at dusk when the air shifts between day and night. Best suited to someone who prefers their florals edited rather than lush.
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.
