Sheer Beauty
Sheer Beauty opens with a soft flash of bergamot that quickly dissolves into milky peach and lily petals, creating an impression more diffuse than bright.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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
- White Floral50
- Sweet50
- Powdery
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Peony
- Sandalwood
- Musk
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readSheer Beauty opens with a soft flash of bergamot that quickly dissolves into milky peach and lily petals, creating an impression more diffuse than bright. The citrus never dominates—it simply sets the stage for what becomes a gentle floral haze. Within minutes, jasmine and peony emerge together, neither pushing forward, both blending into a sheer, skin-like warmth that hovers rather than projects.
The sandalwood and musk in the base keep everything close and rounded, with a whisper of vanilla smoothing any rough edges. There's no drama here, no sharp transitions. The whole composition feels like it's designed to be sensed rather than smelled, a barely-there veil that might appeal to anyone who finds most florals too loud or too sweet.
This is a fragrance for environments where subtlety matters—offices, close conversations, summer evenings when anything heavier would feel intrusive. It won't announce you from across a room, but it will leave a quiet impression on anyone standing near.
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.
