Farnesiana
Farnesiana opens with a mimosa accord that feels like warm spring sun on linen — the hay and bergamot adding texture and lift without sweetening it prematurely.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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.
- Powdery75
- Vanilla65
- Floral65
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Black Currant
- Bergamot
- Mimosa
- Jasmine
- Lily of the Valley
- Iris
- Violet
By the editors · 2 min readFarnesiana opens with a mimosa accord that feels like warm spring sun on linen — the hay and bergamot adding texture and lift without sweetening it prematurely. As the heart develops, violet and jasmine pull in different directions: one powdery and cool, the other rich and faintly carnal. The base settles slowly into a creamy sandalwood and vanilla cushion, kept from cloying by opoponax's subtle medicinal warmth.
This is unambiguously feminine in the classic French tradition — dense, considered, and built to linger close to the skin. It belongs to an era when a perfume was expected to stay with the wearer through the full day.
Scent twins
In this family
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