En Avion
En Avion was created for Hélène Boucher, a French aviation record-holder of the 1930s, and it carries something of her era's brisk optimism.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Floral65
- Amber55
- Warm Spicy50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Neroli
- Neroli
- Orange
- Orange
- Rose
- Jasmine
- Jasmine
By the editors · 2 min readEn Avion was created for Hélène Boucher, a French aviation record-holder of the 1930s, and it carries something of her era's brisk optimism. Carnation and neroli open with spiced brightness — orange blossom and jasmine carrying the white-floral core through the heart. The base is resinous and warm: opoponax, a close relative of myrrh, anchors the jasmine in sweet amber and sandalwood, building an oriental structure that was modern for 1932.
The overall effect is both powdery and sun-warmed — a scent that belongs in the unhurried half-hour before departure. It reads as classical feminine without being heavy, and holds up as a coherent brief for the early jet age.
Scent twins
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