French Cancan
Opens on a powdered floral burst — jasmine kept light by the lift of violet, neither shy nor strident.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Rose60
- Woody60
- Amber60
- Fresh
The note pyramid
- Jasmine
- Violet
- Lily of the Valley
- Orange Blossom
- Patchouli
- Iris
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readOpens on a powdered floral burst — jasmine kept light by the lift of violet, neither shy nor strident. The heart unfolds slowly into a bouquet that feels arranged rather than improvised: lily of the valley, orange blossom, two roses braided together, and an iris that lays a soft chalk over the petals.
Patchouli lurks underneath, more textural than earthy, anchoring what would otherwise drift toward potpourri. The base settles into sandalwood warmed by ambergris and amber — a finish that reads as cosmetic-room rather than skin, a faint cloud of face powder and silk.
It suits long evenings indoors, dressing rooms, candlelit tables. There is nothing modern in its construction, and that is the point.
Scent twins
In this family
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.
