Montaigne
Montaigne opens with a powdered mimosa that feels like stepping into a velvet-lined boudoir from another era.
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.
- Aromatic50
- Yellow Floral50
- White Floral50
- Green
The note pyramid
- Jasmine
- Mimosa
- Black Currant
- Mimosa
- Narcissus
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readMontaigne opens with a powdered mimosa that feels like stepping into a velvet-lined boudoir from another era. The jasmine arrives softly dusted, nearly muted, while the mimosa carries a honeyed, almost almond-like warmth that dominates the early moments. This is not a fresh floral—it's immediately cushioned, nostalgic, decidedly French in that way Caron perfumes from the eighties understood femininity as something plush and unapologetic.
As it settles, black currant adds a subtle tartness that keeps the flowers from becoming too soporific, while heliotrope weaves through with its characteristic powdered-violet sweetness. The base is where Montaigne finds its true character: sandalwood smoothed with benzoin and vanilla creates a skin-like finish that's warm without being gourmand, ambery without turning heavy.
This is a perfume for someone who appreciates the particular elegance of vintage French florals—soft-spoken but tenacious, comforting without being simple. It wears close and never shouts.
Scent twins
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