Carolina Herrera by Carolina Herrera
The original Carolina Herrera is a 1980s chypre-floral that arrived with the era's characteristic boldness and has worn it well.
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.
- Floral60
- Mossy60
- Yellow Floral50
- Tuberose
The note pyramid
- Orange Blossom
- Apricot
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Lily of the Valley
- Narcissus
By the editors · 2 min readThe original Carolina Herrera is a 1980s chypre-floral that arrived with the era's characteristic boldness and has worn it well. Orange blossom, apricot, and bergamot open in a combination that is simultaneously citric, fruity, and floral — no single note dominating. The heart is a lavish white floral: jasmine, ylang-ylang, lily of the valley, and narcissus together forming the era's ideal of feminine perfumery — heady, complex, and unapologetically generous.
The base declares its chypre credentials: oakmoss and civet provide the characteristically animalic-mossy foundation, sandalwood and vetiver add depth and earthiness, amber and musk extend the warmth. This is a fragrance from an era before IFRA restrictions dulled the oakmoss. Worn today it reads as historical record as much as perfume — for those willing to meet it on its own terms, it remains instructive.
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.
